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[quote=Anonymous]Granted this is years ago - in the 90s -  but my brother's best friend left TJ after 3 days.  She didn't like it (She is asian, and was getting some slack about how she only got in because she was asian and no smart kids come from her high school....Go Hawks!)  She ended up graduated top of her class, I don't recall where her undergraduate was - but east coast school.  She ended up post-doc at MIT.  My brother didn't get into TJ, ended up at UVA undergrad and is currently post-doc at Georgetown.

My DS currently jokes that when parents ask him if he wants to go to TJ he says his goal is to get accepted and then turn it down and get pupil placed to study foreign languages and auto shop (our base school doesn't have the combo of languages he wants).  (we will worry about that later this year!!)

I've lived in FCPS long enough to see that it's really up to each kid.  I've know kids who fail out of college after TJ and others that do just fine.

My goal is to get my kids through HS as happy, well-adjusted people who can talk to me w/out texting me!  HS was a total stress maker 20 years ago, and it's only gotten worse here.  college was a breeze coming out of FCPS 20 years ago - I'm not worried about it (getting in in-state is the problem now). They will be prepped for college - it's life that I'm worried about.

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