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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself  a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS[/quote]

PP I have never met such a person... Do people like that really exist... at TJ?  [b]Does any employer or graduate school care if someone went to a magnet school?[/b]  Does TJ have a strong alumni association that graduates participate in for life?[/quote]

This will sound ridiculous, but in my experience, yes. [b]I keep my TJ graduation on my LinkedIn page and it's contributed to at least one job offer. People are really impressed by it.[/b][/quote]

...but you never left the Virginia/DC area, right?[/quote]

Putting your high school on LinkedIn is TOTALLY a thing now. Especially since LinkedIn has been around for 10 years, so kids who create their page while in college put it and never take it off. In my opinion it acts as a signal that you're "clubbable" or a "fit" - which is huge is finance/consulting.

Some finance/consulting jobs do want to know your SAT scores - I'm not kidding. For the right job, having that Andover or Exeter credential will be seen as a plus. To HR/boss in flyover country, no, probably not going to matter.[/quote]

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