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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ parent here.

We were hearing a lot of senior parents complain last year about college acceptances. A lot of parents thought TJ damaged their kids chances in getting into a prestige school.

However, DC made friends with a lot of seniors. All of them have said the following (with the exception of cal tech and mit kids) - TJ prepared them for college. They joke that they regretted it- but privately, they are having a blast at college and doing really well and some are getting extremely prestigious internships as freshmen.

TJ kids are fine.

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This is one of the strongest comments I've ever read on this forum.

The value of TJ lies in three key separators:
1) You are in an environment where literally 100% of your classmates care deeply about school
2) You get access to equipment and resources that - when taken in total - are available at [b]no other high school in America[/b]
3) You get three hours of time each week that are embedded in the school day for you to join those classmates in activities that are interesting to you - leaving your after-school time available to do sports or whatever else you want to get into

It is the best public high school in America [b]by orders of magnitude[/b] regardless of what some dopey magazines have to say, and the impact of attending stays with you for the rest of your life in the form of invaluable connections and early access to opportunities that aren't even approachable at other highly-rated schools in the DC metro area.[/quote]

Eh, when the poster says: However, DC made friends with a lot of seniors. All of them have said the following (with the exception of cal tech and mit kids) - TJ prepared them for college. They joke that they regretted it- but privately, they are having a blast at college and doing really well and some are getting extremely prestigious internships as freshmen.

And then you say TJ kids care about school

Then

It is highly likely the tj kids would have been prepared for college regardless where they went. It isn’t as if non TJ kids are ill prepared. A top base kid who goes to an ivy doesn’t equate to being more prepared for grad school over a TJ kid who goes to a much worse ranked college. Same thing.  [/quote]

TJ kids are better prepared for college than McLean/Langley kids there really is no comparison between the rigor you get between the two.  [/quote]

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