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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a scam.  These TT schools are full of legacy and big donors.  Whatever success the schools have is baked in.  The parents are well connected and wealthy, of course they all have good outcome.  The schools do very little in college outcome but charging obscene amount of tuition.

If your kid is actually smart, you wouldn't need TT schools to get in a good college.  Yes, mediocre kids are sent here to pretend there is "rigor".  What a joke.[/quote]

Simply untrue for the vast majority of the student body. Where are people getting this info?[/quote]

This is true. Well, that and ED which is what many of these kids do, which is essentially wealthy kid affirmative action. Signals to the school = I will pay full freight [/quote]

To say that they aren’t rigorous - huh? They’re absolute pressure-cookers. The amount of work is bonkers. And the grading curve is also pretty strict. But if you truly think the students are dumb - and I don’t view this as a measure of intelligence, just an easy way to compare a certain level of aptitude - but the average sat scores at them are higher than almost any other school in the nation. This includes the dumb, lazy rich kids. And please don’t say it’s because of tutors. Once again, the vast majority of us don’t get any personal tutorship, but the school provides extra help. [/quote]

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