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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm backing away from this because it's kind of turned into a nonsense attack on me (why yes, dear internet, I am an utter idiot. Please continue to attack my tablet and phone writing skills while I continue to kill time before picking up my kids from yet another thing. These are very important skills. As is having a sense of humor and not taking yourself too seriously).

Anyway, I hope your kids enjoy TJ as much as you clearly like the school. It's a hard place for some kids, but I truly hope your kids blossom there. I stand by my experience and belief the treadmill of being the best of the best isn't as important as being your own best human being. We'll see how it turns out.

The point of the thread was to ask a real question. I tried to answer it, but I'm not going to bother engaging because it's clearly not wanted.
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Ignore those TJ cheerleaders. It's supposed to be a science and tech magnet, but most go to state schools studying non STEM fields. Many of the kids there were prepped in and continued their stressful lives for 4 years. Only about 10 or even less out of 500 go to MIT each year, that shows you what elite engineering schools think about TJ.[/quote]

This is another reason why you (supposed TJ grad) have to be careful about what you say about TJ on these threads since there are plenty of people who are ready to pounce TJ at every chance for whatever reason.

As for the college placement, TJ enjoys one of the best college placements in the country. Also, class of 2015 received some 36 million dollars in merit scholarship money (about 423 graduates). This is in light of the fact that many top privates do not give any merit based scholarships. What this shows is many TJ grads will forego Ivys or other top privates for merit based scholarships. There are grads who still attend Ivys etc. but many will choose scholarship money instead of Ivy prestige.

As for the MIT comment, [b]TJ send the most high school students to MIT of all the high schools[/b] if you look at the past 10 years. TJ also sends plenty to Princeton, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, CMU, Caltech, GaTech, Illinois etc. known for STEM education.  [/quote]

Did you just make that up? In some recent years, TJ only sent single digit number of students to MIT.[/quote]

TJ acceptances to MIT:

2010-2011  23
2012-2013  18
2013-2014  12
2014-2015  18
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What about the enroll numbers?[/quote]

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