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[quote=Anonymous]Having interviewed about 20 TJ kids for my college alma mater, there is no question that there are impressive STEM students at the school. If your child wants to study nothing but math, science, or engineering major, you can't really do any better. But, there are lots of smart students who just go there for the academic reputation despite not having much of an interest in math and science. The students I've interviewed have tended to read very little outside of class and what they read for their AP classes are pretty pedestrian high school level material. About half of the TJ kids cite Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird as the most influential book they've read. They discuss social problems without any more understanding than what they hear from a TED Talk.  And history is primarily a collection of random timeline facts. This isn't much of a problem for a STEM student, but it is a major negative for those interested in anything else.  In contrast, I found that students at the most selective privates, regardless of their field of interest, had much stronger evidence of intellectual depth. It's not that TJ students aren't every bit as smart (if not smarter) they just haven't been taught and exposed to the same material. [/quote]

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