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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?  [/quote]

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.[/quote]

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools. 
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school. [/quote]

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