Anonymous wrote:Yeah -- and so? Is this breaking news?

No school guarantees success.

Going to Harvard doesn't guarantee success either.

+1....and nobody said it guarantees "success". It might move the starting line in the race, but that's assuming the child wants to be in the race in first place.

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Anonymous wrote:How is gloating about some kids not getting into a big university worthy of a thread?

No one is gloating, that's you feeling insecure.

Actually OP is along with the person posting that TJ parents only want their kids at TJ so they can brag on dcum.

I don't have a kid at TJ and never will.

The people who do not have kids at TJ and are fixated on bashing TJ students and their parents look like crazy people who cannot get over their kids not being accepted to TJ. Normal people do not obsess about other people's kids like this.

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Anonymous wrote:You anti TJ people have some huge chips on your shoulders.

I'm not anti TJ, I encourage all kids who are into STEM to apply there because it's a great school, but some of you parents act like it's a sure fire bet that any kid who goes there will be making a six-figure salary, and that's not the truth.

Where are you getting that?

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Anonymous wrote:Success being subjective of course, but I know students who attended TJ and ended up attending Virginia Tech, some couldn't even get in, believe it or not.

Additionally, I know TJ graduates who went to Ivy League universities and are stuck working that pay less than 80k. Food for thought.

Effort matter just as much as knowledge.

so what... this is true of any "top" school.

Exactly, but I'm talking about TJ because that is the top school of this area. This is a DC forum, not "entire world" forum

Anonymous wrote:You anti TJ people have some huge chips on your shoulders.

I'm not anti TJ, I encourage all kids who are into STEM to apply there because it's a great school, but some of you parents act like it's a sure fire bet that any kid who goes there will be making a six-figure salary, and that's not the truth.

Anonymous wrote:How is gloating about some kids not getting into a big university worthy of a thread?

No one is gloating, that's you feeling insecure.

Anonymous wrote:Success being subjective of course, but I know students who attended TJ and ended up attending Virginia Tech, some couldn't even get in, believe it or not.

Additionally, I know TJ graduates who went to Ivy League universities and are stuck working that pay less than 80k. Food for thought.

Effort matter just as much as knowledge.

so what... this is true of any "top" school.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah -- and so? Is this breaking news?

No school guarantees success.

Going to Harvard doesn't guarantee success either.

Because a lot of posters on here act like TJ is the holy grail. Forcing your kids to do some academic shit in real life just so you can come on the internet and brag to live vicariously through them.

+1

The parents feel inadequate, and are living vicariously through their children. What a sad existence. I know students who were accepted, but refused to attend, because of the prevailing parental sentiment. It is for the parents, not the children. If you want your children to support you in old age, just say so - but pushing them through these hoops for your own benefit is awful.

You anti TJ people have some huge chips on your shoulders.

Relax.

How is gloating about some kids not getting into a big university worthy of a thread?

Anonymous wrote:Yeah -- and so? Is this breaking news?

No school guarantees success.

Going to Harvard doesn't guarantee success either.

Because a lot of posters on here act like TJ is the holy grail. Forcing your kids to do some academic shit in real life just so you can come on the internet and brag to live vicariously through them.

Yeah -- and so? Is this breaking news?

No school guarantees success.

Going to Harvard doesn't guarantee success either.

Tell me something I DON'T KNOW. Only the idiots would believe going to TJ means anything beyond college admission.

Success being subjective of course, but I know students who attended TJ and ended up attending Virginia Tech, some couldn't even get in, believe it or not.

Additionally, I know TJ graduates who went to Ivy League universities and are stuck working that pay less than 80k. Food for thought.

Effort matter just as much as knowledge.