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Nope. It's just weaker MS AAP options, which results in fewer TJ placements and more kids deciding there's no point in applying. If Madison kids went to Carson or Longfellow for AAP rather than Jackson, the situation would be different.

I can only speak for me. My DD did very well on the TJ but we looked at the bigger picture. We live very close to Madison -- walking distance. She has of activities she is interested in -- Band. Madison band is much better than TJ's band. We talked about timing -- For both TJ and Madison, DD would have to be at Madison around 8:00, but at Madison, she is home around 3:15. From TJ, she would not be home until after 5. Almost every class she would take at TJ is available at Madison.

DD did not apply to TJ. She might have gotten in...but she actively chose not to apply. I endorsed that decision.

Nothing you are saying doesn't also apply to some parents/students at schools that send more students to TJ, including Oakton, Chantilly, Langley and McLean. Oakton sports are better than TJ's, Chantilly has an Academy program with some courses you can't get at TJ, Langley's Model UN program is right up there with TJ's, and McLean has student publications just as good as TJ's.

That still doesn't change the fact that Oakton, Chantilly, Langley and McLean send more kids than Madison to TJ because kids there are zoned for the three AAP centers that pulled away from the rest of the MS AAP centers in placing kids at TJ - Carson, Longfellow and Rocky Run. It's not because Madison people are uniquely enamored of Madison.

[b] NP here[/b]. So, you've established that three local middle schools are very good at placing kids at TJ. That's terrific, but that doesn't mean that certain high schools, such as Madison, are not very good.

I never suggested Madison wasn't very good. I'm only pointing out that Madison's strength as a neighborhood high school is not responsible for the comparatively low number of students at TJ who live in the Madison district, and the fact that Longfellow places a lot of kids at TJ who live in the Langley and McLean districts is one reason, among others, why those pyramids are widely considered the top two.

Not my fault if you read more into the post than was stated, and then [b]decided to blow up about it[/b]. 
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Speaking of reading comprehension...I was a new poster with this post, as noted above. I did not blow up about anything. 
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