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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS got accepted - Trying to decide if he should choose TJ or base school. He has been a straight A student up until now, but the general feedback we have from friends is to not go ahead with TJ. How common / uncommon are straight As in TJ. What kind of grades are we looking at for a top 20% student at TJ? [/quote]

NP here.  We are in the same boat- don’t know if our kid is going to be happy there. Straight As at base school. Lots of ECs. Generally a great kid.

If you watched the livestream/zoom, the perspective I am getting is that your kid needs to love science or math [b]or art. (The art thing was interesting!) [/b]It’s not about getting straight As or going to college at this stage: it’s about making sure the kids find their passions and opportunities. There were a lot of questions about whether or not TJ will help their kids get into college. And I’m sure a lot of that was a response to threads here on DCUM.

What that tells me is that regardless of what you read here, the most important part will be going to meet with teachers, talk to counselors, and talk with your child. That this forum is not reflective of what actually is going on in the school.

I was also pleasantly surprised to hear about Ibest and the 8th period more in detail. It makes sense and I think it will help my kids realize that they understand the struggles of incoming freshmen. 
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We fell for this Art pitch, and now DC as a junior is sitting on Cs in every math class starting with Math1 and science classes.  only classes with A are the art classes. [/quote]

We were at the open house this week and we saw the art exhibits and were pretty impressed.  My wife is an artist, her whole family is into art and she thought the art on display was impressively good for high school students.  I don't know how that translates into getting into schools like RISD but any of those kids on display have a good shot at it.[/quote]
Our base school Colgan High in PW County is much better for Art than what we saw at TJ.  Aspiring to attend TJ for art is like saying lets go to Six flags for viewing animals instead of the Zoo.  [/quote]

Then please send your child to Colgan and come back here in 4 years to report how happy your child is. Students who value TJ for what it is should be the ones there.[/quote]

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