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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recent anecdote: My niece and nephew went to TC.  One is at Princeton; the other graduated from Yale a few years ago and is in a graduate program at Cal Tech.  Both felt very well prepared for college.  Both are highly motivated, self-starter types.

Not so recent anecdote: I went to TC and then to UVA as an Echols Scholar with nearly a year of college credit (AP exams).  I was very well prepared.  Better prepared then some of my classmates who attended DC-area privates.  Went to law school at Yale.  I'm a highly motivated, self-starter type.

Future anecdote: My kids will be at Minnie Howard next year and TC proper in 2017 - 2018.  Both are highly motivated, self-starter types.  I'm confident they'll do well.  [/quote]

Now we're talking. Pp, thank you so much. How did your tc classmates and your niece's and nephew's tc classmates do post high school? Similar experience? Did you all enjoy your high school years?[/quote]

My niece's and nephew's high school friends are a stellar group of kids.  To a person, they landed happily at great colleges.  One of my niece's close friends stumbled a bit - transferred from University of Chicago to Georgetown after a hard first year to be closer to home (mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer) - but as a group, they're doing very well.   Nephew's friends are either employed and exploring graduate school or in grad school.  They both had a great high school experience and remain close with their high school friends.

Same for me: great experience.  Crew was a lynchpin for me and my group of friends in high school.  My closest and oldest friends are women with whom I went to GW middle school and TC.  All successful professionals and, more importantly, really good people.  A few weekends ago we were all in the same place celebrating one of our kid's bat mitzvahs.  Good times.     [/quote]

I went to TC-  went on to UVA and then worked overseas and came back to get my MBA from UVA (in-state tuition is a major bonus- plus outstanding school).  Anyway, I did meet the people that the PP mentioned- it does remind me so much of the cliques of Maury and some other schools that were predominantly white and quite capable of sending their kids to private but didn't.  Those kids certainly did bond and create a clique together- they were so not inclusive and - hum- arrogant and some other words.  This is given we were at a public high school and they made it clear they FELT above others.  So- yes, if your child goes keep in mind the cliques are huge.  I could name so many cliques - the burn outs, the jocks, the "popular" since I could have gone to a private .. BUT, it's such a large school that it really is easy not to care.  I personally would not send my children to TC Williams- despite that academically- it was outstanding in AP and honors classes (which I took).  I just don't see the sense to send my kids to such a jungle .. this is my own personal opinion.  We don't have the $ to go private so I never considered living in Alexandria.  We live in Fairfax County.[/quote]

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