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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting into a UC not named UC Merced or Riverside is not that hard.

Generally don't suck and be in or near the top 10% of your class, participate in your school's community, show you are a decent human being and you'll get into one of them.  Will it be Berkeley or UCLA?  That's the crapshoot, but you will get into one of them.

Admission's statistics are available for every high school in the country.  It isn't impossible or frankly even that hard because of all the UC's.  [/quote]

You say it isn’t that hard but then also say you have to be in the top 10% of the class which means it is hard to get in particularly at schools with a lot of high achieving kids.  UW 3.9 GPA DC with ECs including significant volunteer work applying for a psychology major didn’t get into any UC except Merced nor did several of her friends get into UCs other than Merced or Riverside as well as few who got UCSC. [/quote]

The top 10% at schools like Lynbrook and Cupertino would eat TJ kids as snacks. Every day is a pressure cooker.[/quote]

How about top 10% at TJ? Ivy caliber student, do you see your logic problem here? Or you know nothing about TJ.[/quote]

I actually know a lot about TJ but you obviously know nothing about Lynbrook or Cupertino. I can tell that you are Asian by your misuse of the term "logic problem". You might want to take a look at Lynnbrook and Cupertino taking into mind that they are regular public schools (unlike TJ). HS competition at top Bay area schools is another level even compared to DMV.[/quote]

Then you don't know Lynbrook and Cupertino, should not compare TJ with them in first place, TJ ranked at #12, other two are 86 and 218 in US news, not even close, noted TJ was ranked at #1 for many years before admission policy changed. 
Btw, Langley and McLean are ranked at 148 and 218 even with most top students going to TJ.[/quote]

Keep dreaming my friend. I have no connection to either school but you have no idea of what HS is like in a real arena. TJ and TJ kids would be nothing special in the bay area. They wouldn't be known for anything except possibly their parents whining.

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Who's whining here? someone, offering no facts, tried to brag about two high schools in bay area, discredit TJ, did anyone say TJ kids are special than other two's.[/quote]

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