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Well, you already know that as a TJ student the regular guidelines don’t apply to your child but every TJ student aiming for an Ivy or top SLAC knows four or more years  of foreign language is expected of applicants at that stage. The counselors all know it (my kid applied for aerospace engineering w/ five years of Spanish, to Princeton. Harvard, Yale and Cornell). You also know that the original name of the school was The T.J.. School for Tech and Latin. Its Latin program is very strong. You also know that 3 credits of a foreign language -which starts there in middle school - is required for the Advanced Degree.  I suspect your child entered TJ with a strong Latin background from a local Catholic or private so tested out of the program early or took AP tests. Then, if your child proves to be a  rocket scientist in anything not requiring Latin (it can be helpful in medicine or pharmacology and biology) and has a good GPA and test scores, I don’t think UVA would care about his foreign language years at TJ but he will have to take two more at TJ unless he tests out or has a proven disability that makes learning a foreign language impossible.

TJ students have already proven their grit and ability to apply themselves es to a course of study. [b]Dean J talks about looking for an applicant’s ability to self-govern[/b]. TJ students can do that. They don’t need hand holding which is what concerns big public universities.

Finally. , I’ll sure you know that TJ sends more students-as it should since they are the cream of the crop - to UVA than any other high school in the US.  The numbers seem to be dropping but generally 60 in a class of 3,759 go a year.  I imagine there are quite a few brilliant scientists in the group who don’t have four years of foreign language but are RSI Competitors.[/quote]

Can you share where? I feel like I’ve watched all the Dean J videos and I haven’t seen that. [/quote]

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