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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]You're kind of making her point. Her child has the aptitude for math/science and demonstrated it on the test without a lot of prep. It would make sense that the course load is now appropriate for him as a high school student (ie he is able to participate in a time consuming activity and keep his grades up without staying up all night doing homework). Again, this is why I think parents do a disservice to their children by forcing a high score on the test with all of the prep classes.[/quote]

She didn't just say the courses were appropriate but that the kid was doing well academically taking all these courses, participating in a time consuming sport (and presumably other activities) and getting plenty of sleep and this that this was common occurrence at TJ.

It is not common and her definition of doing "well academically" may be different from mine. Doing well at TJ at least means all As or All As and A-s.
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Sure it takes work, but the amount if work it takes varies from person to person. People are different. Two people can work for the same amount of time but have different results at the end of that time. Some people grasp new concepts easily and work very efficiently. Kids who learn quickly, work efficiently, and have good time management skills will likely find TJ to be a good fit for them. And, of course, have a love and enjoyment of math and science.

The point of the response to the original post was to agree that it is a good idea to avoid over prepping for the TJ application process because if the child is accepted than it is probably a good fit. Our family's experience was that our child did not prep and TJ has been a good match for our child's abilities and needs.

Lots of kids at TJ spend at least two hours after school every day practicing with their sports teams and also do well academically. Our child knows other kids who are members of sports teams at TJ who have gone on to top colleges, so they must have been doing pretty well academically, also. Other parents have told me that, a few years ago, four kids from the cross county/track team were all accepted to MIT, so they must have had good grades along with a rigorous course load.

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Yes. It is common for TJ kids to engage in sports or other time consuming activities probably more so than base school kids. I totally agree. TJ kids who engage in sports or other time consuming activities certainly go on to top colleges including MIT.

However, what is NOT common is to see many TJ kids taking 4 ap/post ap courses as sophomore and 6 ap/post ap courses as junior and engaged in sports as well as other time consuming activities who excel in everything and doing well academically and getting plenty of sleep by going to sleep relatively early.

You can make general statements all you want but you fail to say yes my kid took [b]4 ap/post ap courses as sophomore and 6 ap/post ap courses as junior and has done well academically (all As or all As or A-s) [/b]and participated in sport as well as other activities and went to sleep early all the time. That is very uncommon and I object to your characterization that that is common at TJ.    [/quote]

You are very focused on specific details about a kid who is not your own. You have asked to know this kid's courses and grades a number of times. I would not give out such information about a kid of mine over the internet just because someone asked. You'd be surprised how easy it is to figure out who people are. I have figured out a few posters on here over the years and I certainly get why someone would want to be vague about information that would be easy to track. Kids and their parents need to be aware of privacy concerns when posting, even anonymously.
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