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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ parent whiners here out in force here.  "My kid can't possibly find the time to fill out the application to this school!"
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I'm sure VT is fine with this.  Historically, huge numbers of TJ students applied and only a few enrolled.  Let Pitt get accept them and lose them instead.  If a kid is actually interested in VT they can suffer the extreme agony of having to fill out the application.  The TJ kids I know could whip off the essays in half an hour.[/quote].

Really?  The TJ kids I know are whipping of the Pitt short answer essays in 30 minutes, since they also don’t take the common app essay.   But say it takes  take just as long to craft a new Coalition essay and the Coalition app is harder to fill out.  And no one is whipping out either essay in 30 minutes. It’s the number one senior complaint by far.   I know kids prioritizing Coalition app and applying to other schools that take it.  Most kids are prioritizing Common App.  I don’t know any kid, base or TJ who is doing both with much effort.  Most STEM kids are making a deliberate decision to take one bath or the other. I thought the point of the common app was to eliminate this crap.

But I actually agree.  TJ is a deep pool of STEM kids.  And I bet top STEM kids at other FCPS HSs like Langley, Oakton, Chantilly, Woodson are having the same experience, without the benefit of the TJ bump by Pitt.  If Pitt actively wants TJ kids and VT is setting up barriers, better for everyone— VT, Pitt and the kids, that they go to Pitt, and often spend less on college.

But I’m not sure this benefits VT.   And VT is huge and massively overenrolled.  It’s not like TJ kids take up NoVA spots the same way they do at WM and UVA. [/quote]

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