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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]What is sad is that the entire class of TJ is brilliant but because everyone is brilliant it makes it harder[/b]. I would consider going back to regular school and child will get in everywhere. Also after the NMS nonsense I would not trust how applications are handled. Please tell your child they are great and that you will get them through this. Hate kids being stressed out over things they cannot control.[/quote]

This.  This admissions season someone posted a podcast with transcript where admissions officers reviewed the applications from 3 high schools.  One was a TJ student.  That student was held to a ridiculous standard by the admissions officers.  The student wanted to be an economics major but had not done "original research in economics" (the student had only taken 2 years of math beyond calculus, micro and macro econ and was president of the math team and worked in a STEM internship but the admissions team said it didn't support the major and just wasn't impressive enough).  It was insanity.  Meanwhile the other students from regular high schools (not in the DMV) had 1/4 of the resume and were reviewed better.

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That admissions officer is an a$$hat. I highly doubt that's the standard they hold TJ students to. They don't have time to review applications like that anyway. It's- grades, SATs, anything impressive[/quote]

That’s not true at all. If you have gone through the T20 admissions process, you will know that they look at you in comparison to your high school. That is the first cut. After that once you’ve made that cut, then they look at you in detail. You can bet the regional admissions officer knows your high school well knows it down to the hard teachers and the easy teachers. The know whether a B is common in that class or not.

Listen to the Dartmouth and Yale podcasts. And this one.[/quote]

100%. “Bloom where u are planted”—they want the best of the high school you are in. Ivy/T15 may take from deeper in the class at TJ(top20% usually, as long as rigor high), versus random public it is top2% and good private it is usually top10-15%.

They do not care that TJ top 50% have SATs comparable to the top 2% of the public. They want the best of the best. UVA has said the same thing though they deny specific quotas, the bar is different at different high schools[/quote]

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