Reply to TJ College Admissions Results

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "TJ College Admissions Results"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
For the same level of effort, a kid going to base HS will have far better college outcomes relative to TJ, but a kid going to TJ will get a far better, superior education.  MY DC and (several others) breezed through at least sophomore year at top OOS schools, most maintaining 4.0 GPAs.  Def. not possible for a kid out of base HS because they don't lay the same foundation.  But comparable kids (kids that chose not to go to TJ and kids that were waitlisted but didn't quite make the cut) who went to base HS, mostly got into ivies/T20 schools, which the TJ kids struggled to get into.  Pick your poison based on your kid. Mine would not have worked as hard at base as he did at TJ.  If your's is like that, TJ is better. If yours is self-driven, motivated, has initiative, etc. base might work out.  They will have more time to do all the EC nonsense, start clubs that don't exist, etc. and 'pretty up' their profiles for the college admissions process, more difficult to do at TJ.[/quote]
I have a hard time believing base school kids are getting into the Ivies at any significant proportion higher than their TJHSST peer when lookin at the list of admits into TJ vs. the base schools.

The only real challenge comes from other kids, who yes are more ambitious and therefore more competitive in club positions and what not. But getting into varsity sports at TJHSST is much easier than base schools.[/quote]

About 5-15 kids get into Ivies, Stanford, MIT from top non-TJ FCPS schools (maybe slightly more from McLean or Langley).  Most of those kids are TJ calibre but may or may not have gotten into comparable schools had they gone to TJ, because the competition is a lot tougher.

So yeah.. as a proportion of the student cohort, it's a lot less but a TJ kid in the top 20% could be one of those kids that gets into the elite schools from a base HS, mainly because they have more time to 'play the admissions game' - ECs, leadership, sham charities, etc.  TJ is draining especially if you play a sport at any level above rec. You won' t have a lot of time to dedicate to other pursuits.

Also varsity sports doesn't count for much in college admissions, especially at tippy top schools, unless you are being recruited for the sport.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics