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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And a transfer now will be seen as a step back in rigor, so higher grades onward would also be tinged.[/quote]

Not true. If you do well in base schools you have a good shot at good schools. Getting into top college from TJ is not easy. Many get to Ivies easily from base schools but not from TJ[/quote]

OP's kid is not getting into a top school with these grades--doesn't matter if they transfer or not. Unless they are an athlete plus another hook.[/quote]

This. You all are in denial. He could get all As from now on but unless it’s Emory and he is in very hard classes, he won’t be in the top anywhere. Do you all really believe the base school kids are drooling in a corner? [/quote]

See previous point.

OP's kid most likely would do very well in base HS. Should be getting all A's in 10th and 11th.

That would make the child at par with anyone else at base HS for those two grade levels. We dont know anything about the OP's kid and they might have a lot of other things going. I dont see any issue with getting into a very good college.
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Other than Emory, every college will look at the grades 9-11 when applying for admission.

You have no idea if the student [b]will do well[/b] in the base high school. This is the TJ mindset you are not getting. You are assuming that TJ was hard and he didn't do well, but base school will be easy and he will do well. Other than the fact that he is coming from TJ, what are you basing your comments that he will "most likely" do well at the base HS and "should" be getting all As there? Did she tell us anything about him, his intellect, his capabilities, his strengths, etc. that would make you say that?

If he gets all As in 10th and 11th, he is then competing at his HS against kids who also got high grades in 10 and 11, but those kids also likely got all As in 9th. As for your bolded sentence above, in this college application environment, I completely disagree. Every year and grade matters except for Emory. That's it.  [/quote]

I am basing it on my personal experience of another highly regarded HS where we had experience. Getting an A is not something to even bother thinking about at this HS. My child's close friend is still at that HS, they compare the load levels and laugh/cry about it. Any academically inclined student or even with a parent remotely interested in studies and without a whole lot of sports can and without much effort get an A in pretty much all subjects. A C at TJ would require some effort - to my surprise after looking at the scoring rubric for a few of the classes. This effort is a bit more than what is needed for an A at base HS.

If you actually look at TJ courses and how the teachers score and what they expect and compare them to what base HS expects, the difference is immense.

Our 2nd child would not be applying for TJ even though our 1st child's experience at TJ was fantastic. I am not dissing base HS. The academics at TJ are at a whole different level - first year undergraduate is pretty much covered if you take the most rigorous level possible at TJ. I dont see why we need to do that if someone is not so inclined. It is good for kids who are very good academically and many of their EC's and interests are academic as well which makes TJ not a burden.

My 2nd child has a lot of non-academic interests and TJ would not be a good fit. Base HS it is. So not putting down base HS at all.
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So you extrapolated that to apply to all HSs? It is definitely not true at many.

Again, if 30-40% of juniors have a 4.4 or above, TJ isn’t stingy with grading. [/quote]

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