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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.
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Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.[/quote]

+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.[/quote]

-1 a) You declined opportunities available at TJ. b) Higher percentage of TJ kids (almost 50%) get accepted at UVA. c) Apart from UVA, the percentage of TJ kids going to other good colleges is very high. d) On an average, a kid going to UVA from TJ is going to prepared better for college rigor than a kid going to UVA from base school due to TJ curriculum rigor. [/quote]

Another weird added bonus of TJ.  Kids who go through the entire admissions process, though the semi-final round-- even unsuccessfully, BTW--  have a better handle on what the need to do to get into college, from Day 1 in high school.  Grades, Extracurriculars, Teacher recommendations, essays, entrance test.  They have been through the process once, and know how it works, and that each piece matters.  And they know what it feels like to wait for the admissions answer, while hoping you had done enough. That's a perspective that most freshmen don't have when parents fuss about grades or getting involved in extracurriculars.   TJ kids have made the process work once and seen it pay off.  And, I have certainly heard of kids who have been much more motivated in HS after not getting into TJ, either because they want to prove that TJ was wrong to reject them, or because they want to leave everything on the field and not get rejected by their dream college. [/quote]

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