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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your goal is to get into an ivy-league or Top 25 college, [b][i]going to T.J. will not help your child's chances.[/i][/b] In fact, it will hurt them. Colleges consider applicants by comparing them to their peers at the high school they attend. T.J. has some of the brightest students in the entire country. That means that for the 75% of T.J. students who will not be in the top 25% of their class, they will be at a disadvantage when compared to students at regular high schools. Unfair to TJ kids, but true. So go to T.J. if (a) you want to be surrounded by some of the smartest kids in the country, (b) you want to take a number of high-tech courses not offered by base schools, or (c) you just want to bask in the prestige of saying you attend TJ. But do NOT attend solely because you think it will help you make Harvard or Yale. It won't (unless you are among the very brightest at TJ).

P.S. AET does not deserve a place in this discussion. It does not come close to the intellectual rigor of AOS. 
P.P.S. If you child gets into both TJ and AOS, AND your goal is to get into a fancy college, then--without question--you should choose AOS. Because at AOS, colleges will compare the student with others at the base school, and undoubtedly your child will compare to them very favorably. [/quote]

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Most high schools don't report class rank, particularly those in wealth areas or those that have competitive environments.[/quote]

Yeah - TJ does not report class rank but after the top 10% or so there's usually a pretty significant drop-off with the next 60-70% virtually indistinguishable from one another on paper unless they have something going for them that separates them from the rest of the group - like an actual achievement outside of STEM (Cappies Award, Honors Orchestra, first-team All-Region sports). The kids who have those non-STEM achievements usually do the absolute best in the college admissions process, to the dismay of the more one-dimensional remainder of the population.[/quote]

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