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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny. I didn’t go to TJ. And I still managed to get into both W&M and UVA.[/quote]

W&M and to a lesser extent UVA are considered safety schools by many at TJ.  75% of those who apply get into W&M and roughly 60% get into UVA.[/quote}

Those were my safety shcools too. And I did manage to do wonderfully at my chosen school. And I didn’t have the intense pressures from TJ. Is it worth it? Will anyone admit if it wasn’t?[/quote]

"A swallow does not a summer make".  You were probably one of a couple of such kids coming out of base.  For someone like you, where you went to school wouldn't matter.  However, a majority of the kids at base are not like you.  To them UVA and W&M are reach schools while for a substantial number of TJ kids those are backup schools..  For example, last year 191 kids were accepted from TJ into UVA and 62 attended.  129 chose not to go because obviously they went somewhere better.  Show me equivalent numbers for any base school.  Most base schools will not even have 129 admits, let alone 129 kids choosing not to go to UVA.[/quote]

TJ also leads in the number of students rejected by UVA (  I think around 160 ? ).  Please please don't be a jerk comparing results from a selective magnet with an open admissions base school, especially when the TJ students are removed from those schools.  Think about it.[/quote]

So quoting a single instance of a base HS kid going to UVA as a reason to put down TJ is not being a jerk but refuting that claim is?  Get a life!  Of course there will be rejections.  What do you expect?  No university will take every applicant or a substantial percentage from the same school.  All I was trying to do was respond to the question "Is TJ worth it?"  The answer is "Yes" for the most part. For some - Exceptional kids who desire a less stressful HS experience and low HYP ambitions and for kids in the bottom 1/3 of TJ - it is not.  [/quote]

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