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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is a special format of hell for the bottom half of the class  [/quote]
Explain please. Not enough info.[/quote]

It's a lot of work but colleges only admit a certain number of students per school, no matter how good the school, so if you end up in the bottom half of TJ you are worse off than shining at your average high school or going to a private where not everyone is a stem superstar. [/quote]

You're not thinking picture. A TJ kid in the middle of his h.s. class will easily be in the top 10% of his class at V-Tech.[/quote]

That's a truly stupid statement. I am guessing you didn't go to college or (at least) you didn't go to college in the US. Any advantage a TJ kid has is "gone" by the end of first semester. If you don't work, you can't keep up in college. It doesn't matter which HS you attended. [/quote]

TJ kids (along with kids from handful of other elite private/public schools) consistently make up the top students at the top universities. "TJ advantage" in terms of the college preparation/exposure received at TJ does not disappear after 1 semester. Many of the top 1% students of the top universities will be TJ grads if those lists were made public.

Also, average TJ grad will easily be one of the top students at place like VaTech, W and M and UVA. I know of one TJ grad who graduated in the bottom 20% and is doing well at UVA. [/quote]

There isn't really a TJ advantage. These kids already test well, they would be at the top of their college classes whether they went to TJ or not. The point is, do you want your kid to be challenged immensely in one area (academics) or have them have time in high school to grow in other areas as well?

For the record, I interview kids for my Ivy. Last year only 25% of kids I interviewed from TJ got in. The kids who got in had some extracurricular they truly excelled at outside of academics and were also at the top of their class. That was true for kids from TJ and kids not from TJ, except the academic rigor at TJ is so intense that only the most driven of kids could do well in school and in life.[/quote]

So if you are not only looking for academics, but extracurricular, is there something that makes a kid a stand out to you?[/quote]

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