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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is incredibly competitive so it’s hard to tell if admissions-wise kids who are good (but not the best at TJ) would have been better off staying at their base school. DC was a good student at TJ and was fortunate to receive acceptances by Northwestern, Cornell, Rice among others. But rejected or waitlisted from HYPSM, Duke, Columbia, Caltech, UPenn, Brown. At the time we wondered if an acceptance could’ve been earned from one of the latter 10 schools if DC graduated from regular public with everything else[/quote]

Even though your kid did not get into HYPSM, Duke ..., your DC should have easy handling college courts than most students who graduated from regular public schools (at least for the first two years college courts).  This based on experiences with my two kids.[/quote]

have no idea what TJ is but I will say this - my oldest DC graduated top 10% from an above average public hs in the Northeast, got into a Nescac with a sports hook, and has academically “outperformed all of the private school kids” - his words not mine.   Granted these are mostly not nova kids, but kids who went to schools like choate, phillips exeter, newark academy, etc.  I have no idea why, just providing one small anecdote from a kid who believes his public school education prepared him for college just fine.   That said, a ton of kids from his high school probably “fell through the cracks”, which is one of the real value drivers for a private - making sure your kid stays on track.[/quote]

TJ is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.  It is, I believe, the number one ranked public high school in the United States.  I live in DC and my kids did not go (nor would they have had we lived in VA).  It is something unique and, while your story is nice, these kids are on another level from most high school students, public or private school.  The reason their GPAs are not higher is that they all take math and other sciences classes well beyond what the AP offers.  I don't think anyone is worried about them keeping up.  The problem is having them all together coming from the same high school, it is harder to be the stand out in a sea of stand outs.  [/quote]

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