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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top 5% or it’s bad to attend TJ for college admissions.[/quote]

This. Obviously, if a family cares about the best education and opportunities for their kids, they care about that for both HS and college. Very short sighted to only think about HS. [/quote]

It might be short sighted only looking at college when grad school is on the horizon.

TJ will prepare you for college [b]better than other schools[/b] as long as you don't drown.

I think anyone that can reasonably expect to be in the top 20% at TJ should go.  
How do you know if you will be top 20%?  
Anyone that gets 99th percentile on standardized test scores should probably go.  Maybe even 98th.[/quote]

Bolded is -1000. You’re saying the number one kid at Langley or McLean is not equally prepared for college? Or that an unhooked ivy admit from a base school/any other school is less prepared than the 10th/200th kid at TJ? Unhinged.

—This is why TJ needs to be very carefully considered. It hurts college chances and as much as some say eh, so…it matters.[/quote]

I agree that for a lot of students it hurts college chances but I think it really depends on the student.

IMHO,

If a student is top 10% at TJ, they are probably better off in every way for having attended TJ.

If a student is bottom 10% at TJ, they are probably worse off in every way for having attended TJ.

For most of the kids in the middle it's probably a relatively even trade-off of college admissions vs the TJ experience.
Unless you want to go to UVA, then stay at your base.  UVA says they don't have a cap on TJ admissions, but it is absolutely wild the people you see getting rejected from UVA at TJ because there are already 50 people that got in during ED/EA that cycle.  [/quote]

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