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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I have no dog in this fight, it's clearly true that the academic profile of the typical TJ student is higher than that of the typical Big 3 student.  It's also true that there's not a kid at TJ who couldn't cut it at the Big 3 but not vice-versa.

Yes, admissions criteria are different and not every TJ student would have been admitted to the Big 3.  But they all probably deserve to be. [/quote]
[b]Yeah, sounds like you have no dog in this fight whatsoever![/b]

There are one-dimensional math/science geniuses at schools like TJ and Blair who are terrible at the humanities and social sciences.  I was good friends with many such people.  So it's not clear to me at all that they'd easily cut it at a Big 3 to the extent that the standards for being more academically well-rounded are higher.[/quote]

I truly don't.  My kids didn't attend either school and it never occurred to them to.  I do know, however, that had they been interested they'd have had zero chance of getting into TJ but certainly would have had at least some chance at the Big 3.  While they were strong test takers (scoring at the commended scholar level on the PSAT and similarly on the SAT) and generally very good students, , there is absolutely no way they'd score high enough on the TJ exam. No way.  But being a partner in a major DC law firm where everybody and his mother had kids attending the Big 3 and other top area privates, and where my public school kids were in the minority, I had plenty of connections for strings pulling had I or my kids so desired, and I obviously had plenty of money to pay full tuition.  That combination, coupled with having very solid students and test takers as kids, certainly makes it greater than a zero percent chance that they could have gotten in.

Also worth noting that one of my kids' best friends ended up at one of the Cathedral schools after not getting into TJ.       [/quote]

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