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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT grad here, I'm strongly discouraging it. [/quote]
Hard to believe your statement since you didn't explain why. TJ is about as close to MIT as you can get; it's hard to imagine an environment more similar.. So either you are not being honest, or perhaps you are suggesting you did not enjoy MIT either?[/quote]

You're delusional. It is nothing like MIT. Sure, for a public high school, it's great, but the caliber of student isn't exactly even close.[/quote]
I doubt there are 550 'MIT caliber' students at TJ, or 480 under the old system.  However, MIT has a lot of students that would be more like the prepped kids that get talked about on here.  They took tough math and science classes, but they are not as capable in these subjects as many TJ students.[/quote]

That's ridiculous, since the TJ students you despise so much got into based on their middle school records and a test, whereas MIT is evaluating older kids based on a more robust academic record.

But keep pretending that the rank-and-file TJ students now are somehow among the top students nationally in STEM, when in fact many are now probably no stronger than the top 25% or so at a half-dozen or more other high schools in FCPS. [/quote]

What I am saying is you are overestimating the STEM abilities of MIT students.[/quote]

DP.  I've been trying to say that too and they just refuse to believe it.  [/quote]

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