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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Except the interesting thing is Pitt isn’t losing them. More than 1/4 of TJ kids who applied to Pitt went last year.  That’s not bad for an OOS higher sticker price school that is literally on the list of TJ safeties they hand out (also GMU and VCU and JUM).  Meanwhile in 2018, less than 10% of kids who applied to VT attended.  Maybe VT wants to ask why UVA and WM and Pitt have a decent TJ yield and they don’t without putting up a huge barrier to admission.  Or maybe they don’t care. But long term, they don’t stay on top if STEM talent is avoiding them. [/quote]

It's amusing that TJ parents found it so important to go to a prestigious high school where "everyone is smart" then suddenly change their tune when their snowflake doesn't get admitted to a tier 1 school.  Suddenly they are singing the virtues of third-rate Pitt.[/quote]

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