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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is the tops.  Other schools are sending 1 , 2, 3, maybe 6 kids to Harvard every year?  Try 12-20 from TJ admitted.  (Ditto for Stanford, MIT, etc.)  Don't kid yourselves, if you can get into and excel at TJ, it blows away the top 3 for college placement. [/quote]

Blair had 53 national merit scholarship finalists last year, in a class of what, 700?  That's 1 in every 14 kids.  How many privates can say that, even after all the Kaplan classes?  Richard Montgomery had 28, in a class of 500, which is about 6%.  And as a PP said, many of the kids in these schools don't intend to go to college and didn't take the SATs.  These schools also have Harvard admits, although not as many as TJ.[/quote]
STA/NCS/Sidwell routinely top 10% for NMSFs.  See the chart that you can find under SAM2's private school admissions stickies.  If I recall, TJ tops 20%, which is stunning.  They only admit in 9th grade, which helps, and of course don't do the legacy or jock admit thing.  They are re-focusing on math/science though so it wouldn't really fit for the smart humanities only kid.[/quote]

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