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[quote=Anonymous]The top-performing students (i.e., top 75 or 100 in the class) have very little interaction with the students who are involved in the vast majority of the disciplinary matters.  Most top students are taking all honors or AP courses, and most of those students (there are a few exceptions, of course) are serious about academics.  Our new principal, Suzanne Maxey, has taken a very firm stand on discipline, and the number of incidents has gone down dramatically this year.

As to the number of students receiving offers at these schools, I personally know students will be attending (not just accepted by) Penn, Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, NYU, Haverford, UVA (many, many students), William and Mary, and Wesleyan.  I do know of one student who turned down Penn and Cornell to attend UVa.   I'm not sure about attendance at the other schools I listed, but I do know that students were accepted at them.  Others are attending Bucknell, Colgate, Sewanee, Barnard, Morehouse, and Boston College.

One other thing to consider is this:  the city of Alexandria does not send students to Thomas Jefferson.  So the truly exceptional math and science students in the city of Alexandria stay at TC -- they are not siphoned off.  Two of our students went to the national Intel Science competition this year, for example.

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