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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I couldn’t imagine doing this to my kid - “moved to an apartment in less competitive area for a year for a better admission chance “ - Social pressure already hard for most of middle schooler. My son already has his circle of friends and tribe in his competitive MS (which is actually positive peer pressure environment) and I can’t think of how I should ripped it apart from him.., the damage could probably worse than the benefit getting into TJ.[/quote]

[b]Then obviously you're not ready to win. Have fun when your kids go to VCU and end up barista/call center for the rest of their life.[/quote][/b]

You're a moron. When my kids were in FCPS, I remember timing with a parent at a swim meet, who said they'd move to our neighborhood ( a top IB HS school) if their kid didn't get into TJ because the kid would shine there because it wasn't that competitive.  Aside from the obvious rudeness, trying to game things like this was and continues to be absurd.

My oldest was in AAP and his dream was to go to TJ. Sadly, he was rejected. He went on to double major in computer science and a language at a good state college that this crowd would no doubt sniff at (though lots of TJ kids, including his freshman roommate, went there). He's currently a software engineer at Google.

Let your kids find their own way.  They will. The ones I see struggling are the ones whose parents tried to pave the way for them. It's trite, but disappointment is character-building.[/quote]

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