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Anonymous wrote:DC got in to TJ and went to the welcome event, but felt like an outsider and decided not to attend. Not sure if it was because Dc is white and/or because so many of the kids knew each other from their feeder schools and stayed in groups, but DC didn’t feel they fit in. Kids were flexing their math levels and academic achievements, which isn’t DC’s style. DC went in the gym to learn about the sports teams, but (while nice) many of the athletes had never played their sports before high school, and just weren’t as into sports as my kid. DC would be getting home very late each night after sports and felt that would be a disadvantage in academically competing with the kids who don’t play sports after school. While there are kids at all schools who don’t play sports, DC thought that subset of kids at TJ would be spending all that time studying, while that may not be true at other schools.

DC goes to TJ and chose to play for a travel team instead of at school. Much easier to manage practice and playing times. While it's true TJ is not an athletic-oriented school (you can't really expect the focus of the top 10-15% of the kids at any school to be sports. It is not) there are enough kids that do play sports at an elite level. Of course, the motherhood-and- apple-pie type sports - football, basketball and baseball - are not that big and the teams suck.. You do have to make sure your DC is comfortable though wherever they go to school.

Gotta correct a little bit here - granted, the football team plays an independent schedule but they did go 6-2 last year and won their last five games. It'll never be on the level of a big time public school again but if your kid has some experience they can be a star.

Baseball has been on the rise the last few years and they have a kid playing at Hopkins and one more who is headed to the team at Swarthmore.

And boys basketball is seemingly in the regional tournament every other year (they have a player at Caltech) and the girls won something like 17 games two years ago (with players now at UChicago and York).

All of those teams would be much, much more competitive if the kids who got in all actually came and decided to play.

Anonymous wrote:FWIW rumor has it that two players from this years baseball team have committed to play in college and two more are headed to Ivys. Sounds like something is going right with the baseball program.

Anonymous wrote:^^^^^
I get the point, but Caltech basketball is a joke. They had a 26 year losing streak.

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Anonymous wrote:DC got in to TJ and went to the welcome event, but felt like an outsider and decided not to attend. Not sure if it was because Dc is white and/or because so many of the kids knew each other from their feeder schools and stayed in groups, but DC didn’t feel they fit in. Kids were flexing their math levels and academic achievements, which isn’t DC’s style. DC went in the gym to learn about the sports teams, but (while nice) many of the athletes had never played their sports before high school, and just weren’t as into sports as my kid. DC would be getting home very late each night after sports and felt that would be a disadvantage in academically competing with the kids who don’t play sports after school. While there are kids at all schools who don’t play sports, DC thought that subset of kids at TJ would be spending all that time studying, while that may not be true at other schools.

DC goes to TJ and chose to play for a travel team instead of at school. Much easier to manage practice and playing times. While it's true TJ is not an athletic-oriented school (you can't really expect the focus of the top 10-15% of the kids at any school to be sports. It is not) there are enough kids that do play sports at an elite level. Of course, the motherhood-and- apple-pie type sports - football, basketball and baseball - are not that big and the teams suck.. You do have to make sure your DC is comfortable though wherever they go to school.

Anonymous wrote:DC got in to TJ and went to the welcome event, but felt like an outsider and decided not to attend. Not sure if it was because Dc is white and/or because so many of the kids knew each other from their feeder schools and stayed in groups, but DC didn’t feel they fit in. Kids were flexing their math levels and academic achievements, which isn’t DC’s style. DC went in the gym to learn about the sports teams, but (while nice) many of the athletes had never played their sports before high school, and just weren’t as into sports as my kid. DC would be getting home very late each night after sports and felt that would be a disadvantage in academically competing with the kids who don’t play sports after school. While there are kids at all schools who don’t play sports, DC thought that subset of kids at TJ would be spending all that time studying, while that may not be true at other schools.

Anonymous wrote:DC got in to TJ and went to the welcome event, but felt like an outsider and decided not to attend. Not sure if it was because Dc is white and/or because so many of the kids knew each other from their feeder schools and stayed in groups, but DC didn’t feel they fit in. Kids were flexing their math levels and academic achievements, which isn’t DC’s style. DC went in the gym to learn about the sports teams, but (while nice) many of the athletes had never played their sports before high school, and just weren’t as into sports as my kid. DC would be getting home very late each night after sports and felt that would be a disadvantage in academically competing with the kids who don’t play sports after school. While there are kids at all schools who don’t play sports, DC thought that subset of kids at TJ would be spending all that time studying, while that may not be true at other schools.

Anonymous wrote:This thread makes no sense. TJ is highly selective, right? Obviously a lot of people want to go there. It’s not like only Asian kids are applying.