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(The bottom line with TJ is that when you press the button to attend TJ, you know your chances of college admissions decrease unless you are in the top 10% or so of your graduating class.)[/quote]

Not true. Just look at TJ college destination statistics. Half of the class gets admitted to UVA and WM. Any college no matter how selective, the admission rates from TJ are multiples of other FCPS schools. Your own kid got into Berkeley most likely because of the unique combination of the exceptional STEM school and passion for performing art[/quote]
Only a moron would compare college admissions from a highly selective admissions STEM school with a base school.  It is idiotic.[/quote]

But the initial PP said the "top 10%" when 50% of the class gets admitted to UVA/WM/VT Engineering--the top in-state schools.  A factual correction.  
And it's not unreasonable to compare the top 50% of TJ to the top 10% at the base schools--they are essentially the same caliber, with similar SATs etc.  Not every top student wants to go to TJ and this is a high achieving area.[/quote]

Nowhere near 50% of the class is admitted to those schools.  2/3 of the TJ applicants to UVA are rejected, and they come mostly from the top half of students.[/quote]

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