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I'm not sure most TJ kids[b] "end up where they're supposed to be." [/b] 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]

I think the PP meant to say "TJ kids end up where they would have even if they had not gone to TJ".  Where they are supposed to have ended up is affected by too many external factors outside the control of the student, starting with our corrupt higher ed systems..[/quote]

PP here. My reply addressed that interpretation. I'm saying that the bottom half of TJ kids (by whatever arbitrary ranking) would end up at a higher ranked school if they stayed at their base high school where their 1480 SAT would stand out.  TJ doesn't get kids into better colleges - about half of the students end up at worse colleges than their counterfactual twin back at the base high school.[/quote]

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