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[quote=Anonymous]I have tried to show that the top kids at a base HS: Madison (the only school for which I have data) does well in college admissions.  I provided data showing that the top quarter of Madison has similar (not identical) results as TJ does (maybe with exception of the very top of TJ.

The TJ booster turn it around into how much better TJ is, ignoring the fact that you have to be in the top 5% of the county to get into TJ.

The DATA clearly shows that 1) TJ has great results in college admission, 2) The top quarter of at least one base school has similar results.

The question was on the impact of TJ and admissions.  It is not really possible to directly compare TJ to base schools, because the starting point is different.  However, with statistical normalization, you can.

So, I compared 8 year at madison to 1 year at TJ.  That was the purpose.  And we found, for may schools (e.g., Princeton) similar numbers from JMHS over 8 years as TJ had for one.  On the other hand, the more pure STEM schools were definitely stronger for TJ than Madison (MIT, Caltech).  Not surprised.

The TJ boosters used this as an excuse to bash Madison, which is at best tacky and borders on trolling.

But, if you look at it another way:  probably 99% of TJ comes from AAP.  About 25% for Madison (goes baed on the number of kids at TMS in AAP and LJMS in AAP minus the few that got to TJ).

The cohorts are not the the same, so to compare them without normalization is completely misleading use of statistics.  And I thought Stats was a requirement for first semester math at TJ.[/quote]

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