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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] friend of mine just got this amazing job offer at Google -- and never went to TJ, MIT, CalTech, Rutgers or Princeton. Graduated from UMass-Amherst of all places.  
 
 
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2 neighbors:  one Google HQ:  not TJ.  JMU
another: Microsoft, WA state: not TJ. CNU[/quote]

hey, no one is arguing that if you don't get into AAP your life is ruined. :roll:  [b]But if you do get accepted, why not attend?[/[/b]quote]

There are plenty of reason, fit, for one.  Some kids are just more comfortable at their neighborhood school. Others want to stay with friends. Their parents don't want them to have to commute.  They're able to challenge themselves on their own.  When we were deciding whether to send our oldest, years back, I was very hesitant because I believed strongly that some of the best lessons learned in grade school may be from kids who don't do as well academically as you do, but have other strengths.  School always came easy to me, for example, but not for my best friends.  They were the ones who brought me out of my shell and taught me how to navigate the social world.  My oldest wanted to go to the center because none of the kids at his local school were interested in the things he was, computers, coding, etc.   In high school, I'd say his friends were split, half from AAP, half from gen. ed.

Going to a center is not a no-brainer.  It depends on the kid.  Or at least it should, if some parents didn't seem to have so much vested in it.  [/quote]

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