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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Each base school has over 25 commits

That is not true for most schools. Please provide links.[/quote]

Fairfax High School Celebrates 32 Student Athletes in NCAA Ceremony

https://www.cityoffairfaxschools.org/apps/news/article/1773784[/quote]

This is a tremendous number and should be celebrated. But it's worth mentioning that only six of them will be attending schools that TJ students generally would even consider.

Almost by definition, if you choose to attend TJ, you are prioritizing academics to a significant extent. That's not necessarily at the expense of athletics, as it's been demonstrated repeatedly that students can have a tremendous athletic experience at TJ that in many cases exceeds what they could get at their base school. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that these kids end up making their college decisions based on their ceilings as students rather than their ceilings as athletes.

Every one of the top six tennis players on both the boys and girls side at TJ could play in college if they want to. Same is true of most of their top swimmers and many of their top runners. Heck, this year the boys basketball team could have sent 4-5 kids to play in college, and a couple of them were actually heavily recruited. But when these kids are getting into Princeton and Cornell and Harvard (in part because of their athletic success even though they're not recruited), they're going to go there.[/quote]

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