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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is a good choice for highly motivated kids knowing what they want and make efforts to prep themselves.  It helps to build good learning habit and encourage strong work ethics that can benefit them in long run.

If college admission is the only measurement, it may not be the best choice for majority of kids there.  In my view, the top 50 kids will get more or less the same result whether or not go to TJ.  The next 100 may get a little benefit from the peer pressure.  The rest of the kids can get better or almost the same result if they stay at base schools.[/quote]

Being a good, but not top, kid at TJ has a lot of spillover effects, in terms of accolades for college admission packets. For example, TJ has won the state scholastic bowl championship for the last however-many years. The third best kid on that team is still state champion - if that kid went to their home school, they would not have even made it to the state championship. Being the best on a mediocre team does not fill out the resume as well as being mediocre on the best team.

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I have heard TJ alumni have been the highest performing students at UVA among high schools with more than a minimum number of students.  So college may be easier for TJ students because of the academic rigor.[/quote]

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