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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When it comes to National Merit Semifinalists, it’s more like 18.5 dozen in FCPS to one dozen in APS.[/quote]

Are there more kids in FCPS?[/quote]

There are about 25,000 kids in Arlington public schools. There are more than 188,000 in Fairfax public schools.

OP, we knew a kid at TJ. He regretted it at the end, because he didn't get into his first choice college. Too much competition at TJ for a limited number of slots. He said it would have been better to be the big fish in a small pond at his neighborhood high school.[/quote]

Don’t be daft. There are far more TJ kids getting into top schools than kids from Yorktown. Of course, they aim higher as well.[/quote]

Don't you be daft. Did I say there weren't? No - I just said that he was competing against many, many more of his own classmates for a limited number of slots. No college is going to take every single TJ student who applies to it, even though they take several. So he was not accepted to his first choice and was wait-listed at his second.

And next time, don't try to put words in anyone else's mouth. [/quote]

You mean like the way you're surely putting words into the mouth of a TJ student?  LOL.

In any case, Yorktown kids only compete with TJ kids at the margins (lowest-performing TJ kids overlap with brightest YHS kids).  Otherwise they don't have much in common academically.   [/quote]

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