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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Despite all of the accolades for TJ as a great public school, this thread suggests to me that the TJ parents are wildly insecure try hards. Listen guys - TJ is a cram school for Asain math and science kids. That's great. They test well, it's a very good education.

Exeter and St. Paul's and the other truly world class boarding schools are on another stratosphere.

Success in this country is not based on your SAT score. [/quote]

Exactly!!

To make it to the true top in this country, this world, you need very specific social skills and leadership skills and that's what these TJ folks don't get.  Life is not a meritocracy no matter how much immigrants and the granola types like to believe it is.  At a certain point, it's all about who you are, who your connections are, where you went to schoo and sorry but, a free STEM-centric school in NOVA, even the "best" one in the country, isn't going to get most people even close to that world.  There are exceptions, there are always exceptions, but the road to the top is rigged with societal pitfalls and social booby traps to catch up and ruin the kind who come from places like TJ.  It's ugly but it's true.  Your kid will have a much better shot if she or he learns this by going to school at a top Boarding school or Sidwell or STA/NCS type of top day school where they get schooled in it.  I don't think it's necessarily right but I know it's true.[/quote]

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