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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have an unhooked kid who wants to go to HYPSM, Caltech or top 5 SLAC and they do very well at TJ (almost 4.0 UW GPA, interesting extracurriculars/internship), then they will have a good chance at being able to get into one of those schools. If they perform the same at their base school, they will have a much smaller chance of getting into any of those schools. Those are the kids TJ makes a positive difference for as far as college admissions.

Conversely, there are kids who don't do well academically at TJ and their college admissions chances are probably hurt by going there - ie:they'd get into UVA at base school, but they won't at TJ unless they're in the top 50%

Either way, it's a tremendous school - college admissions shouldn't be the reason someone does or doesn't go there.[/quote]

This is absolutely not true.[/quote]

Yes, it is. It's what happened to my TJ kid who graduated with a 4.0 and got into a few of those colleges, while no one at the base HS (other than one URM & one recruited athlete) has been admitted to those schools in at least the last 3 years.[/quote]

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