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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe.  They don't seem to be promoting/arranging the STEM mentoring, lab research and publishing relationships that the top public math/science high school programs elsewhere use to help kids stand out when applying to the country's best programs, e.g. MIT, Princeton, Cornell Engineering, Cal Tech. Attend a TJ open house and you'll understand what I'm talking about.  Where are the NASA, National Academy of Sciences and Smithsonian Air and Space internships for the BASIS DC crew?  They attract the STEM professional parents who could help arrange the mentoring, but hardly use them to do it.  They're wasting a hell of a resource.  [/quote]

It isn't a STEM school.

And in fact the graduates headed to Princeton and Barnard did their senior projects with two different Smithsonians (on ocean acidification and astronomy respectively) and are planning on pursuing those fields in college. One had been working with the museum scientists for the last 2 years.

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I am not the PP and I hear this. The above is great. However, shouldn't it be sort of an 'everything' school given what it presents as an accelerated in every subject curriculum? As much as we loved Latin, we also saw weakness in STEM in the early years and they also could have tapped into parents and partnerships much more in the early years. I would not be complacent. Even if not a STEM school, it surely has STEM kids and the opportunities above are in this area for the plucking. Perhaps a parent committee if the school is strapped for bandwidth?[/quote]

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