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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t high achieving kids have a better chance at getting into TJ from a lower tiered middle school? How much stress are the Carson AAP kids under to get into TJ?

Also, what happens when those TJ students don’t get into their first choice in-state university (UVA / VT Engineering) because there is so much competition?  Was it all worth it? The long commutes, classmates living far away, the cut throat environment?  For some kids, I assume, this kind of academic environment comes naturally, but for how many is it just soul crushing?  [/quote]

For a lot of those kids, the soul crushing and cut-throat environment begins at home before they are even out of kindergarten. Their parents are so ruthlessly competitive and unaccepting of learning differences that they will stop at nothing to force their kid to fit a mold they may not naturally fit. And they wonder later why their kids are unhappy (though they won't admit that their kids are unhappy because that's an "unacceptable emotion"), hate them, or don't want a relationship with them as they transition into adulthood. [/quote]

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