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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone keeping track of NMSF numbers from TJ?

I believe it is 144 for the Class of 23.
We will have another class ('24) under the old system.

Then we will have the class of '25 - the first litmus test of the new admissions policy.  It will be great to compare class of 25 with Oakton HS, McLean HS and Langley HS for that class. Currently those schools are in teens with NMSF qualifiers
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Nobody cares about NMSF, it's neither noteworthy nor prestigious. Your 'comparison' is meaningless. TJ will always have 100+ NMSF qualifiers because the main criteria is based off of the laughably easy PSAT. It shouldn't be a big surprise that a third of the TJ population can do this without trying very hard.[/quote]

1/3rd is actually quite low. it is almost 1/2 for the Blair STEM Magnet. [/quote]

The Blair magnet is, if memory serves, a program for about 100 kids per class year that exists within a much larger regular high school. It is far more comparable to AOS or AET than it is to TJ as in most cases the only courses that are unique to the magnet student are the STEM courses.

TJ is the superior product as a full-service high school for over 500 students per class and that's not really up for debate. This is why Blair tends to have an inferiority complex with respect to TJ while the vast majority of TJ students do not know that the Blair magnet exists.[/quote]

Well, except that Blair's magnet has a higher SAT average, more NMSF as a percent, members of the USAMO, and more Regeneron scholars as a %, and seems to beat TJ at almost every academic competition they compete in so seems like TJ Is an inferior product.[/quote]

All of those percentages are exceptional because their program is so tiny. If you siphoned off the top 100 students at TJ in each class and compared them to the 100 students in each Blair magnet class it wouldn't even be a competition.

Additionally, students at TJ have some many other opportunities to participate in because it's a full-service high school. Many of the [b]best students have far better things to do with their time than obsess over academic competitions[/b].[/quote]

What better things? Can you give some examples[/quote]

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