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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is really hard. Only the ones with ‘natural’ smarts should go here.

rest all just struggle[/quote]

Natural smarts ... hmm how do you identify that in ES/MS? all the kids who get into TJ are smart, you only find after the fact whether someone will excel at top 10%, 25%, 50%, or bottom half. Some cheat too, does that count as 'smarts'? Then some others do not know how to cheat, does that count as not 'smart'?

There is a lot in between, TJ is hard, it comes down to mental maturity of the kids to handle it before they have the college level age maturity.[/quote]

PP here: A standardized test like the PSAT.

My kid is currently a senior at TJ.

Doing ok. But reports that a good 25% to 30% of his class regularly bombs core courses like M4, Physics Honors.

And there are kids who take AP Physics C in Sophomore year and land up with C’s.

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PP here. How is PSAT a good indicator? mine is one of those who bombed M4, then had to retake, but excelled in PSAT and SAT with almost no prep. Made it to the National Semi Final list on PSAT and scored 1540 SAT first attempt with minimal prep. I just don't know if there is any clear way to figure out. I sure do know my kid was a smart kid then and is a smart grown up now. It's just that back then somehow didn't crack the classes like M4 or Chemistry. Effort is one thing that was missing, not smarts.[/quote]

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