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I wonder if having TJ makes it harder for students from other schools in NOVA.  Do colleges assume that a high percentage of the best students are skimmed off by TJ and, as a result, discount the achievements of students at the schools these kids have left behind?  Or does TJ act like a rising tide and raise all boats?[/quote]

Many years ago I read an article in the Washington Post or Washingtonian where a group of college admissions counselors remarked on this effect. Basically, they felt that schools in Montgo County were 'better' overall as they didn't have that skim effect that was created by TJ taking the top students. It made the schools more balanced and they would prefer a kid from some high school there than a non-TJ Fairfax or Arlington kid.

Oh my god--I can't believe I just found it. Google is amazing. From 2007

https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/10/01/getting-in-to-top-schools/

(Gtown Admissions Dean) Deacon: "Georgetown gets a relatively small number of applicants from the Washington area. The problem in Northern Virginia is Thomas Jefferson, the science-and-technology magnet school. Jefferson robs all the local schools of their best students, leaving behind a culture that’s more dominated by athletics and rock music and less dominated by APs and high academic achievement. It’s great for the kids who get to Jefferson, but it leaves behind a lot of schools where the top of the class is a lot thinner.

So we don’t see a lot of great candidates from Northern Virginia high schools other than Jefferson. Even those that rank high in the class don’t look great to us. We see much stronger candidates from Montgomery County schools than from Fairfax."[/quote]

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