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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with HGC is that admission is by no means guaranteed, and the screening is heavily tied to one test.  If for any reason your DD has one bad testing day, or her 3rd grade teacher doesn't like her for some reason, then no HGC.  It sounds like AAP has a much fairer, and more comprehensive, screening program in place. Even without the official results in hand, I now wish we'd moved to FFX due to this stress.  [/quote]

Fairfax is better.

All of your kids' needs can be met.

Plus, you have TJ as an option which is leaps and bounds better than any other option available in the country.

Research TJ, OP.  That will rule all the other areas off the table.[/quote]

Based on the article, if your kid is interested in STEM, I would choose Blair magnet over TJ.  Blair produces way more Intel finalists than TJ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/young-scientists-from-md-and-va-excel-at-prestigious-intel-competition/2016/03/11/993beaf4-e588-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

"[b]Blair has racked up 34 Intel finalists since 1999, more than any other school in the country[/b]. The Montgomery County high school ranks third nationally for total finalists since the pre-college science and math competition began in 1942..... [b]Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, an elite magnet school in Fairfax County, has boasted 11 finalists since 1999[/b]"
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