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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice to see that folks are already lining up the narratives to get their kids into TJ off the waitlist.

It's almost a comforting rhythm - a flood of TJ sh!tposting right around the application deadlines to depress competition, and another flood gearing up for the admissions notices going out on mid-March to incentivize decline rates.

So much thirst.[/quote]

The warnings don't come out of nowhere, they are usually responses to questions.  
I think most of this is good advice.  
TJ academic rigor is no joke.  You are likely to get Bs or even Cs at TJ where you might have coasted through your base high school with straight As.
College admissions for maybe 80% of students are NOT better from TJ than base school. Not necessarily worse, but not better.
If UVA is your target, TJ is not the best pathway to get there.  But places like purdue, pitt, uiuc stem programs might be easier from TJ because you have more opportunities to show a stem focus.

However, you will get no better preparation for college than TJ if you can handle the rigor.
I would say that a kid that doesn't usually work hard might find themselves forced to work hard.  
And THAT might be valuable in itself.
Once again, IF you can handle the rigor.[/quote]

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