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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a mom of a hs senior, I am also probing this question and trying to sift through contradictory info. We see emory listed as a school ranked high on having happy kids, but when we ask people with kids there now, they say there's  a lot of high-pressure pre professional angst and that social life is dead and kids to go georgia tech for parties.  What is the truth??? [/quote]

The truth is your kids happiness depends on their being a good match with their personality, goals and academic ability, as well as them finding a good friend group, ECs that they enjoy, having good professors. And the ability to interact with those professors and resolve any issues that arise. Among many other things. Fit is an individual thing.

Now, one of my kids did go through TJ.  And the kids there were definitely used to a very stressful and competitive academic environment.  Many went on to T25 schools they found to be much, much  easier than high school. However, consensus seemed to be that the following schools were stressful and miserable even by TJ standards: MIT, Hopkins, CMU, and Chicago.  (And realize most kids reporting back were on an engineering or hardcore STEM track).  Or so went the conventional wisdom among students.

Kids who went to UVA, WM, VT (STEM), Michigan and Pitt (which was actively recruiting at TJ for a while) really seemed to enjoy college while succeeding academically.  Many other colleges didn’t have enough kids attending to get a strong reputation on way or the other. [/quote]

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