Reply to If a kid will fall in top 30-50% in TJ, is going to TJ a better idea

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "If a kid will fall in top 30-50% in TJ, is going to TJ a better idea"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my kids ended up at HYPSM (same STEM major)
DC 1 attended top 5 FCPS.
DC 2 attended TJ.

The kid that attended TJ was way more prepared and had easier time academically than kid that went to base HS. [/quote]

Also, my kid that went to base HS had friends they met at college who went to TJ and said TJ classmates were way more prepared for the STEM classes than they were despite taking the "same" courses in HS. BC calc at base high school is not the same as BC calc at TJ (not even close). [/quote]

How many can be in this sampling? It would need to be:

- kids attending the same college as your kid

Further narrowed by

- TJ grads your kid met at the college

Compared to
- base HS kids

Narrowed by

- those taking the same Calc BC titled course

Narrowed by those

- taking the same course by the same professor at the same college

Narrowed by those who shared info with your kid

[/quote]

The number of kids from TJ going to UVA and VT for STEM that have friends from their base school also going to UVA or VT for STEM is fairly significant.[/quote]
You can only compare if they all know your kid well enough to share their experience AND they are in the same class together (base and TJ grads) so that you’re getting an evaluation of the same professor and content (testing, grading, etc).

As you’d acknowledge I am sure, one college prof could be easy and another hard, so you can’t say: “I struggled in Calc 3 (with a teacher out sick 3/4 of the year)” is the same as “Mine curves all grades so the lowest is a B” and say the former student struggled bc he was at a base HS and the latter got an easy A bc of TJ.

So again, your kid doesn’t know [/quote]

It's not about grades, it's about grok.  The better trained kids understand stuff easier and faster than the less trained kids.
It you're asking for a peer reviewed study saying that going to TJ will make college easier for you than if you go to your base school, I don't think it exists.
But if you are asking whether there is a consensus among kids that went to TJ that college was easier for them than their classmates then the consensus is pretty much unanimous[/quote]

No, I am asking you to stop with the sweeping claims which are not based in any realm of reality. Your posts are all the same…and easy to pick out.

No go make up some more sweeping “all TJ grads” or “all the base kids you know” stats.

Never change!!![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics