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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please do not go to TJ because of college admissions. Yes, 25% of the class goes to Top 20 schools. But the 4 years is brutal. Been there, done that. DC is at a top 15 school and very happy, but can honestly say I think DC would have ended up there no matter where DC went to HS. [/quote]

As a current TJ parent I agree. Most TJ kids will end up where they are supposed to college admission wise whether they went to TJ or not. A lot happens to a kid between when they are 14yrs old to when they are 17+ yrs old. Before you decide to send your kids to TJ take account of their maturity level. A child can be performing at an advanced level academically but may not be mature enough to juggle TJ workload, teen issues and the intense nature of the environment they will be in at TJ. Overall our experience is mixed. We are happy with the group of kids and education or DC has received but we were unaware how much coping skills and maturity they needed. [/quote]

I'm not sure most TJ kids "end up where they're supposed to be."  In 7th grade, most of these future-TJ kids were far above their peers in terms of STEM and had MIT et al. in their sights. Half of them ended up being less-than-average TJ kids (there has to be a bottom 250) who then went to less prestigious schools.  It's impossible to know where these kids would have landed had they stayed at their home school.  Certainly, a 1480 SAT valedictorian from a rural school has a much better chance of getting into HYPSM than that same student who's ranked 300+ at TJ?

That said, most TJ students probably are more successful in college given that they've doing college-level work since 9th grade. [/quote]

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