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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will put kid in good stead for college. Everyone in my incoming MIT class expected to be in the top half of the class. This was asked at orientation. "Raise your hand if you expect to be in the top half..". Most everyone raised their hand. Speaker said, "Look around. Think about that,"
People sheepishly started lowering their hands..[/quote]

College is different.

My kid went through Stuyvesant HS half asleep.  Boy, was he humbled by the math department at UChicago. [/quote]

I hate to be arrogant, but this is not a thing that happens coming from TJ. The only schools where TJ kids generally find things more difficult than high school are MIT and Caltech. Otherwise, kids almost universally report that things are MUCH easier in college than at TJ

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Parent of TJ grad who went to a T10.  Definitely said TJ was harder.[/quote]

It depends on if you want to get by or be academically rigorous. Colleges offer a wide range of options from easy to hard, and generally assign less homework and leave it to the student to decide how much effort to put in and how much to learn.

Some T10 students graduate with the level of coursework that other T10 students do sophomore year [/quote]

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