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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One prep school thing to do is row crew.  What does TJ have? An excellent crew roster. Another prep school thing? Tennis. What does TJ have? The best tennis players in the state.  Golf? Same. How about Model UN? Possibly the best HS Model UN in the country. Percentage of NMSF is highest in the country. Most of the kids get gold medals on national language exams. Plus they are all good at science and math - and some are well beyond that. Not a bad place and not all kids there are unusual except in their intelligence. There are a lot of nice, polite, typically acting and looking kids who would do great anywhere.  [/quote]

TJ's swim team is very good, Quizbowl team placed second nationally and has very strong debate teams that regularly beat top private teams in DC area tournaments. They win the most scholastic writing awards from the area as well.[/quote]

I used to work for an organization that put on a quiz bowl yoke thing for HS students. The TJ kids were soooo arrogant.[/quote]

They have the best quizbowl team in the country if you look at their record for the past 20 years. Why are private/BS not very good at quizbowls? They are likely to do well since 60-70% of the questions cover literature, arts, music, history etc. Only about 20-25% cover science & math.[/quote]

I think you missed PP's point. [/quote]

BS kids are way more arrogant than TJ kids.[/quote]

No, try again. That wasn't PP's point. [/quote]

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