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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened?  Normally Carson, RR & Longfellow have pretty comparable number. Not this year...[/quote]

It would be interesting to see if the applications rates have declined.  I know anecdotally that among my circle, TJ is not the end game and this is a change from 5-6 years ago.  We are at McLean HS.  It may explain also why the number of NMSF has increased at McLean HS recent years. [/quote]

If you assume that the kids from the AAP center middle schools are in the AAP program, more kids from Carson AAP apply (78%) than from Longfellow or Rocky Run AAP (both 56%).  Maybe that means more kids at those schools are happy with their base HS options, but it could also just mean that the success at Carson triggers more interest.   [/quote]

Carson and RR have a lot of overlap in base school HS options. But speaking for Carson, there is an enormous peer pressure within the AAP program to get in to TJ.  And enormous parent support. The kids take Geometry over the summer and Algebra II in 8th, tutor, tutor and tutor some more in math, etc. but also the parents take over running the very, very high caliber nationally competitive academic extracurriculars that give them an added resume boost-- MathCounts, TARC, TSA, FLL, debate, Model UN etc. and the kids who beat out 200-300 other kids to make one of these teams easily put in 20+ hours each week, every week on these extracurriculars. And the math and science teachers are excellent. [/quote]

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