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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several Indian parents, and it seems common among them to justify their child's decision to decline a TJ offer by attributing it to reasons like distance, college admissions, or sleep deprivation, rather than admitting their child lacks confidence to handle TJ's rigorous curriculum. It's quite annoying when these parents repeatedly bring up the topic by themselves, boasting about how their child received a TJ offer but turned it down, as if the offer alone validates their child's academic ability. These are worst parents to get advise from when evaluating a TJ offer, as they go to great lengths to convince of drawbacks of TJ.  I'm glad we didn't take their input seriously, and accepted our TJ offer.  [/quote]

You are 100% correct ( i am an Indian myself)... its more for self gratification than for any of those things they mention. These are parents who are trying to live their unrealized dreams through their kids lives while trying to up their social stature within the community. For those exact same reasons mentioned - we didnt apply to TJ at all...kid is waitlisted in AOS/AET both at this time. If not either of those, perfectly fine with the base school. Sun will rise the next day![/quote]

In my view - The above 2 posts are a generalized ill informed opinion :

Irrespective of nationality/ethnicity - I think lot of parents who reject TJ or AOL do not do apply  for self gratification . Most of the parents go by kids opinion/suggestion by teacher  and apply for both schools knowing well that they have to reject either of one if the kids gets into both. Reason for that is they want to provide the kids options to choose from.

Every year There have been cases of kids who got into AOL and TJ but later changed mind to go to Base school for multitude of reasons..  [/quote]
You misunderstood. The poster is not suggesting that kids shouldn't apply to both TJ and AOL. They are referring to what parents did after decisions were made, boasting perennially about letting go of their TJ lottery offer.[/quote]

Exactly! it is not about kids and choices. Its about parents trying to wash away their kids' hard work by saying that they only let go of TJ because it was hard or far or some other stupid reason. My general retort back to such an answer is "getting into TJ is not easy and your Kid busted their backside to get in and they got picked and all this while you could have saved them that rigor if you would have helped them understand that it was going to hard and it was going to be far and AOS/AET were anyways better. why make them go through the testing and prep.".... all i get back is indignant stares back! [/quote]
A small correction: Gaining admission to TJ is based on a lottery system biased towards equity and diversity, no merit considerations. However, succeeding at TJ requires a strong foundation in middle school math, english and science. This is what Curie and other multi-year enrichment programs aim for—to ensure success after gaining admission to TJ. We approached Curie shortly after submitting the TJ application, hoping for essay training alone, but they turned us away. 
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