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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In terms of time commitment, sports at TJ tends to favor the academically advanced students, who often participate throughout all four years, but not as a potential athletic recruit. While many students try out sports during freshman year, quite a few quit by junior year. Some students give up on hopes of improving their GPA, but stay involved with sports for physical and recreational benefits. There are many academically average students who stay involved with sports to enhance their college application profiles.

If a student is serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit, TJ as a stem school is not an ideal place to be in.  Base schools have better options and offer academic flexibility with a lower minimum GPA requirement and lighter coursework.  [/quote]

The entirety of the above is basically untrue and betrays a lack of understanding of the dynamics within TJ athletics.

The above poster indicated that quite a few students quit by junior year - this is at the very least misleading. Athletic participation rates increase year over year at TJ as students recognize the advantages of being a part of the respective teams and witness their classmates navigating the process successfully. Some do quit - a huge chunk of that is self-selection out of the process because they either get cut for Varsity teams or assume they will get cut.

Students of all academic levels at TJ have their college application profiles enhanced by participation in athletics - it's not just the "academically average" ones, whatever is meant by that.

And it's patently untrue that students serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit would be better served at a base school. Students choosing to attend TJ will almost always, especially in team sports, have a greater chance to compete at the Varsity level earlier at TJ than they would at their base school.

[b]This is yet another example of a parent who is probably trying to encourage people to decline their offers of admission in order to improve their child's chances of being recalled off of the waitlist. Take these posters with a grain of salt.[/b][/quote]

The PP's writing is so stilted I suspect some troll ran things through ChatGTP for their own amusement. Why trolling about everyone dropping out of sports by junior year at TJ is so fun for some random person on the internet I cannot fathom.[/quote]

Right? Just nonsense. But I suspect the motivation is to try to unearth any possible reason for folks to turn down the offer, probably with a little bit of racist "since they're Black they're probably interested in being a recruited athlete" crap.[/quote]

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