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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would have been nice if TJ had sampler online courses for 8th graders to explore if this is the sort of thing they wanted for entire high school, and then decide on applying there. Now the offer is in, but unsure whether to go ahead with freshman, and if it gets overwhelming, go through the hassles of returning to base school.  [/quote]

There is really no way to tell.  The selection process is effectively a random selection from the application pool.  Even the 200 "merit" admissions are being admitted on an essay exam that doesn't really test anything except maybe writing ability (which, to be fair is extremely difficult to develop but has a high correlation to wealth and parental ses).

I went to a school like this in nyc called stuyvesant and it was humbling.  I went from being a very big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a pond full of whales.  It also made college a lot easier than it was for most people.  I always had the option to transfer back at the end of any semester to my base high school but the thought never entered my mind.  I might have been able to graduate my base hs with a near perfect gpa but then the humbling would have happened in college and as important as high school performance is, it is your college gpa that determines where you go to graduate school and a good graduate school degree is worth more than the difference between UVA undergrad and yale undergrad, at least in my opinion.

The objective is to realize your lifetime potential and I think it is probably worth it to at least try tjhsst, unless you have changed your mind about tjhsst entirely or your child was just humoring you by taking the test and absolutely doesn't6 want to go.[/quote]

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