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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a prep for prep tour guide for HS at a TT school. Along with a kid who had been there since K. Kid who was there since K was fine - very pleasant, probably not going to HYPS unless super connected but will do fine in life. If you met them on the street you wouldn't guess they went to a TT but not dumb either. Prep for Prep kid was really impressive - smart, funny, comfortable in their own skin. I think they had applied ED to MIT but don't recall (it was a few years ago).

Again - generalizations get you nowhere.[/quote]
This is interesting to me, b/c all the young Trinity alumni I've met (4-5) have been pleasant, well-mannered, and... sort of mild?  I am sure there are some brilliants minds behind the manners, but they sure don't let on, at least not to a casual acquaintance.  Comparing to e.g. Bronx Science open house experience, where there was a lot of cheeky humor, ironic self-awareness and kind of intense "cool nerd" energy.  Trinity -- mostly polish.  Yeah, generalization, I know.[/quote]

The Prep for Prep kid didn't blow us away with his brilliance - not one of the off the charts types. But clearly very smart and just an overall impressive representative of the school. A bit on the nerdy side but not totally socially awkward or weird. The non-Prep for Prep kid we met fits your description well.

Ironically, we largely had the opposite experience at Bronx Science and Stuy. The schools are huge so there are all types including the type you described, so not disagreeing with you and definitely not saying you are wrong. But we also found that both skewed way too heavily towards really socially awkward kids who were making strange jokes and who as an employer I would not stick within a mile of a client (I know they are only in HS but you get my point). My kid, who is far from the coolest kid out there but has very normal, mainstream interests and feels relatively comfortable interacting with a wide variety of people, looked at us and said "please don't make me go here". And this was at the accepted student event for one of them (we had had largely the same experience at the open houses for both schools). My kid was coming from a fairly diverse public middle school so it is not like they were totally sheltered or living in an UMC white bubble their whole life.[/quote]

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