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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are not a TJ parent it is hard to understand the goals of the top kids.[/quote]
Of course it's not hard to understand the [i]goals[/i] of the top kids. They're the same goals as hundreds of thousands of top students all across the country. And TJ students do well, but nobody should go to TJ with the [i]expectation[/i] that they'll end up at the schools you laid out.

From the 2023 class's [url=https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/2023seniorissue]senior issue[/url] (which someone upthread noted covers about 70% of the class), [i]maybe[/i] 10% of the class goes to one of MIT (3), Stanford (1), Penn (5), Princeton (4), Columbia (1), Cornell (7), Harvard (5), UCB (3), JHU (4), CMU (9). That's a total of 42. Whereas 56 went to either Maryland (29), Purdue (17), or Michigan (10). A random TJ student is 33% more likely to end up at one of those three than the Ivy+ / T20 schools. And just looking at the top in-states — UVA (44), W&M (24), or VT (23) (total: 91) — the odds are >2x that a student will end up at a Virginia public than the schools above. Odds are better for Chicago (14) or Georgetown (8), but even adding those two together is still fewer students than to any one of the in-state flagships.

None of that is intended to take away from TJ, or the students who go there. Every one of those schools above is solid, and every student can do great things there. The point really is for parents to adjust their expectations, and to understand that there are a number of great paths after TJ.
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