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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the previous PP:  TJ is a high performing school for sure but its college placement would not lead one to believe it is the highest performing school in the world or in America.

Over five years schools like Boston Latin placed 83 students at Harvard and Andover placed 41 over three years --- do note that  those schools have high placement numbers at other elites colleges.

I think students get an excellent education at any of these schools but the TJ banter ignores the reality that some schools have better placement.[/quote]

I am the PP.  What everyone, including you and the boarding school advocates posting after you lost sight of, was the OP's question.  Why would you choose TJ and why would you choose BS.  I myself am a BS grad.  However, the q is why choose, i.e. what can her kid get from each.  This is not a comparison q.  The answer from BS' ers (sorry for the acronym), is that you will increase your chances of ivy league (IF THAT MATTERS TO YOU).  And the answer from the TJ'ers is that you will have a stem experience like no other and still have a shot at ivies or top colleges notwithstanding.

The reason it keeps going around it seems is because the BS' ers (and the TJ'ers?) are resistent/oblivous to the fact that both statements are true.  It is not a binary question.

That's all folks!!
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