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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I have no dog in this fight, it's clearly true that the academic profile of the typical TJ student is higher than that of the typical Big 3 student.  It's also true that there's not a kid at TJ who couldn't cut it at the Big 3 but not vice-versa.

Yes, admissions criteria are different and not every TJ student would have been admitted to the Big 3.  But they all probably deserve to be. [/quote]
Yeah, sounds like you have no dog in this fight whatsoever!

There are one-dimensional math/science geniuses at schools like TJ and Blair who are terrible at the humanities and social sciences.  I was good friends with many such people.  So it's not clear to me at all that they'd easily cut it at a Big 3 to the extent that the standards for being more academically well-rounded are higher.[/quote]

If recent proliferation admission counseling, admission scandals and counselors quitting in frustration tell us anything that is, the phrase "well rounded" is a myth. Not every kid at either Big 3 or TJ will come out well rounded. Heck I know 99% of adults are not well rounded and these are just high school kids we are talking about. TJ kids are brilliant and they stick to science and Math because they love it. That does not mean they are not good at anything else. Following post pretty much says all that one needs to know about the quality of students and academics at the Big 3.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/799531.page

"I’ll offer direct experience from a decade plus working at one of the top terminal 8 private’s that regularly feeds to a full range of DC metro Highs schools: public, private, parochial - including many to the elite private’s and “Big 3.” It is absolutely the case that the elites regularly admit less qualified, full paying applicants over more highly qualified FA applicants. Every year I see it first hand in the families and students I serve - exceptional candidates are put on WLs when strong but less qualified applicants from full pay families are admitted. I have even benefitted from this with my own children as ours is a full pay family and my children have been admitted with strong but not as stellar profiles from some of their classmates who are waitlisted and the only factor can be FA. Our HOS who manages the outplacement program regularly advises families that if admittance to an elite is a priority that they should do everything possible to avoid applying for FA, except if they represent a stellar candidate with diversity on multiple fronts. This isn’t urban myth, and I won’t even pass judgement other than offer the direct observation - and reflect that it’s the practical side of the private school funding model."[/quote]

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