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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ grads have the best college placements in the country despite 71% of the graduates facing racial discrimination in college admissions and without legacy preferences![/quote]

My public school in the middle of New York with all middle class kids, pulling only from a town of 27,000, sent four kids to Harvard my graduating year - fact.  Get over yourselves.[/quote]

Did they send on average 10-15 kids to MIT, 8-12 kids to Stanford, 10-14 to Duke, 6-11 to Berkeley, 15-20 to Michigan, 12-19 to Cornell, 10-18 to Princeton, 6-9 to Yale per year etc. etc. based on the admissions record of the past 10 years?[/quote]

beat me to it. TJ grads more likely to go to MIT than places like Harvard.   Eight this year was a low number compared to previous years. 
Not to say that un-named public school in the middle of New York or IMSA in Illinois are not very fine schools. [/quote]

I am sorry, where are you getting these numbers?  Brain drain an entire state and this is all you have to show for it.  Count me in the unimpressed column.[/quote]

2% of FCPS grads are from TJ.  In one of the most highly educated counties in the country.  You need to make up your mind as to why you hate TJ. Either it brain drains the whole state. Or TJ kids who are not as genuinely smart and creative as base school kids and are nothing special. But, you can't have it both ways. [/quote]

You are missing the point.  If a single school skims almost half of the Presidential Scholars for an entire state, then one would expect a more impressive list.  It isn't about hating or loving the school.  It is a question of whether or not the overall setup creates too much undifferentiated "likeness", which cannibalizes individual candidates.[/quote]

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