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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ’s open house was a huge success with all the passionate and friendly student volunteers.

DC is from a Loudoun middle school. About a handful students from his school were admitted by TJ. All were in Loudoun’s GT program. Most of them also had offers from Academies of Loudoun.

Before TJ’s open house, only one of the admitted kids was committed to go to TJ. The rest wanted to go to Academies of Loudoun, or stay at home school due to the long distance from TJ to their homes.

After the open house, all of the kids decided to go to TJ. I was surprised because during the event, they were commenting on how run down TJ was compared to Academies of Loudoun’s modern and shiny campus. ACL’s open house had been hosted several weeks earlier. What ACL lacked in the orientation was the enthusiastic student volunteers. ACL had some students present as well, but much fewer, and they were mainly just handing out the building maps.

DC’s elementary school and middle school do not have a lot of academic opportunities. No Math Olympiad or Science Olympiad clubs were ever formed in their schools due to the low participation rates. They are excited that they can meet some like minded students in their future high school. [/quote]

I saw kids at ACL in the classrooms discussing the classes.  I'm not sure that they have clubs like TJ, so for example you won't be able to take AMC10 there.[/quote]

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