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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, absolutely true.  And TJ is not for everyone- it's a hard decision to make for many families.  But there are also definite statistics that are very transparent w/r/t TJ, because TJ publishes them.  For example, the number of TJ students accepted to Princeton is supposedly the highest number of admitted students for any HS in the country.  I have personally spoken with Harvard application reviewers for the DC area who were astounded how many TJ applicants sailed through the process (it was described as the DC HS that Harvard offered admission to the most students to).  If Edison has acceptance numbers, those could be placed next to TJ's and a comparison could be made.  [b]But I don't think overall one can say that Edison admission stats match TJ's - it's just not true.  [/quote][/b]

I don't think anyone was ever saying that.  [/quote]

Yes they were:

"I bet a kid with those stats coming from Edison would have gotten into those ivys. Then she would've at least had the choice of them or uva, which is the point of this thread, right?"

"I can tell you unequivocally that you take two children who are otherwise the same - i.e., test scores, grades, extracurriculars, race, etc. - one of them is at Edison and one is at TJ, the kid at Edison will have a better chance of being accepted."

""take two children who are otherwise the same - i.e., test scores, grades, extracurriculars, race..." I think that assuming those factors are the same, she's probably right that the kid from Edison gets the nod."

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