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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the posters who just cannot understand why a magnet program with high achieving kids is sending fewer than expected students to top 20 schools, I suggest you look at these threads for a couple of potential explanations:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/646771.page
(Middle class families are you willing to take on a ton of debt for a top college)
and
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/649226.page
(No benefit for attending a top ranked high school)

Not a TJ parent but I have been reading this thread with interest as my kid attends a similar program in MCPS at Montgomery Blair High School.  It is not comparable to TJ as TJ only has magnet kids.  Blair is a regular high school but they admit 100 kids a year into their Science magnet.  Blair magnet has similar stats to TJ. (I am only posting these to make the point that they are similar not to get into a pissing contest with TJ parents so please, please don't go there!)  
eg: Blair magnet Class of 2017 had 41% NMSF and average SAT was 2253/2400 
blair does not publish its college acceptance information but I do remember seeing a list of college destinations when attending an information meeting and all the top colleges were there but the administrator also told us that around a third of the kids choose to attend UMD because it is affordable and because there are fantastic scientific research opportunities there.  Our kid is likely to be one of these kids.  FWIW I know a kid who got into Brown but chose to attend UMD even though the family could afford Brown.  The calculus is different when you are in a science magnet - you are thinking about grad school and about research opportunities etc.  This is on top of the normal constraints many UMC families in the financial aid donut hole face.
My kid is looking at colleges right now and he keeps saying College X sounds fantastic but I don't know if it is $50K a year more fantastic.  Add to that, only 4/5 on average of students graduate in 4 years at even the best colleges, you are looking at a price difference of between $200K - $250K [/quote]
This makes sense[/quote]

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