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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The TJ posters clearly do not have or know students at TJ. The intellectual abilities and recognition of TJ Stidents cross into arts, writing, drama, politics, history, and various sports that are not cookie cutter ... Though every sports team does seem to have about 20-40% of its members also achieve NMSF status. And not because they study to the test ... Because they study beyond the test.  Recent TJ awards include best delegation and many individual awards at the Ivy League MUN conference, best HS newspaper, best HS yearbook, many drama and arts awards, writing awards, and several Intel semifinalists (along with the most NMSF probably in the country).  And they all read To Kill a Mockingbird in 8th grade, so aren't citing it as recent work unless they have really done a thesis on it. Look up TJStar if you want to find out about the types of presentation every NINTH grader makes. It is the most enriched environment available around DC. [/quote]

Absolutely agree that TJ is a great school. But it is different in purpose and focus than the selective privates and it serves a different kind of student. I was a TJ-type kid - first generation Asian immigrant, >1500 SATs in 7th grade, Suzuki lessons since preschool, etc. TJ would have been an automatic choice for me, because that's what my parents understood. Thanks to them, I have a very different socio-economic position and my DC has a very different relationship to money, status, and power than I did. DC wants to be a public intellectual, no interest in making widgets or coding apps. My DC is not better, more noble, or smarter than yours - just different and DC is better served at a different kind of school.

FWIW - Remember that most NMSF will get rejected by Harvard (or any other Ivy). The fact that your child's classmates got NMSF does not matter if yours didn't.  Your drum roll of "bests" is a little grasping (see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/magazine/why-is-india-so-crazy-for-world-records.html) and TJ is good enough not to need that. [/quote]

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