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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure most TJ kids who are in the top 25% or so of the class will aim for Harvard, MIT, Duke, etc. but UVA ends up being a great value for TJ kids. Maybe some of the disappointment comes from a belief that the kids who end up at UVA could've have gotten the same outcome with much less stress and rigor, but TJ is about the experience not just the college admissions[/quote]

+1 many people say college is easier than TJ so it’s an experience beyond just the results[/quote]

Why would you want college to be easier than high school?[/quote]

First, less chance of struggling when first year can be overwhelming aside from academic requirements;
Second, more time to engage in club activity or leisure activities or preparing for even research/internships;
Third, very likely to stick to the intended major (even STEM) and to receive and maintain very high GPA;
Fourth, thus more options for med/law schools or even graduate school etc.
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So at the price of playing a sport/club or having leisure time in high school, TJ lets you do those things in college.  
In the mean time, all those kids who cruised through HS are now working harder in college and catching up with the TJ kids who front-loaded their academics in HS.

I'm still not seeing the benefit.  It's looking more like a trade.[/quote]
There is a benefit. The kids who front-loaded receive summer internships as CS freshmen and sophomores at the companies that pay them over $200k upon graduation. The kids who get to the level of a TJ senior when they are college juniors get hired for the jobs that pay $100k less. [/quote]

Are you telling me that the kid from TJ who goes to a top 20 has better career prospects than the kid from the base school that goes to a top 20?  I'd love to see the data on that.[/quote]
I’m observing a career path of DD who graduated from TJ last year and took a lot of post-AP math and CS classes at school. Last summer, right after her HS graduation she interned as a software engineer. The company she interned for told her that based on her skill set acquired at TJ she doesn’t need to go to college at all and can continue working for them full time. As a college freshman, she learned that the most competitive companies that pay over $200k upon graduation have internship programs for freshmen - because they want to hire the best of the best. In order to receive such an internship as a freshman, a student needs to take a complicated technical test, they are expected to be able to work as software engineers at that point. When I read DCUM in the past, I was impressed that some of the CS students were offered $140k upon graduation. Now based on my DD’s experience, I know that there are companies that pay $230-270k as an entry level salary to those who interned for them as freshmen and sophomores. [/quote]

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