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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why you’d want a “great” HS experience but a lower named/ranked school unless it was the kid’s choice (turned down an ivy for a full ride at uva). [/quote]

Because a job might care about what college you attend, they won’t care about what HS you attend. Most people have no clue about TJ but they know Harvard or MIT. [/quote]

Buahaha, that's what you think. TJ got me every job I ever had. I know lawyers who got clerkships based on TJ (yes, layered on top of whatever law school). Yeah maybe TJ's reach is more geographically limited, but lots of people know TJ.

It's really amazing how many people think coming here to trash TJ or going to the private school forum to trash specific top tier privates will make other kids turn these schools down and give their kids a better chance. People - not enough applicants read your DCUM post, then think, &quot;Huh, maybe I won't go there after all&quot; for your kid to get in.[/quote]
Did you put TJ on your resume? Or was it just connections, like any other high school?[/quote]

I went to stuyvesant so it's a bi6t of a different animal because it's been around longer so the older folks have heard of it.  A lot of managing directors have never heard of TJ but I assume that TJ is better kbnown these days.
Early in my career, I put my high school on my resume.  By early I mean until I was 30.  It was down near the bottom near the &quot;adept at excel and powerpoint&quot; line but it was there and it almost always came up at some point in the interview process.  
They didn't necessarily go to Stuy but they understood what it meant.[/quote]

First quoted PP here, and yes I did. But then again, I haven't job hunted since I was just a few years out of college. Were I to hit the job market again now, it would be pretty weird to have TJ on the resume. At the time it was a topic of conversation in interviews, but there wasn't much else to talk about. My college was utterly no-name in my field.[/quote]

This is exactly normal and what one would suspect to be true. Saying anything different makes me think the TJ grads continue to live in the past and without humility.

TJ -&gt; let’s say Penn State - &gt; 26 years old would be odd that TJ is discussed except maybe “oh what was THAT like?” Not wow, TJ????  [/quote]

The discussions were actually "How does one get into TJ" because all my interviewers were dads of middle schoolers in northern Virginia.[/quote]

Were you a new grad at the time? If not, how did tJ even come up?[/quote]

Within a few years out of college, and TJ was still on the resume because my college had a very tiny major in my field. I was well prepared for my career, but the TJ name meant more. And it worked.[/quote]
Few years
Out of college is the same thing others are saying…recent college grads. Was it on your resume at 30? 40? 45?[/quote]

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