Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

and you're looking at Instagram for accurate information??? OMG, LOL.

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OP, why are you stalking kids' Instagrams? That does not seem particularly "off" to you? My word.

If the accounts are public…

I actually like seeing these. My high school alma mater (very very high FARMs, urban non-magnet public school) has been doing it the past couple years & I feel like the school punches above its weight. The school has always had stratified tracking though; as in, 4 different levels of classes offered in each subject in each grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

and you're looking at Instagram for accurate information??? OMG, LOL.

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OP, why are you stalking kids' Instagrams? That does not seem particularly "off" to you? My word.

Anonymous wrote:TJ has its own internal announcement system that includes detailed info. Hundreds participate in that vs the dozens who participate in the Instagram site.

As most schools should. Some parents are off their rocker, putting it very generously.

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Anonymous wrote:That's on the parents who are clearly disappointed with their kids.

I'm floored by the parents on here who are all bummed that their kid has to attend Case or William & Mary or Northeastern or Tulane or some other school "ranked 40+."

They may think that they're keeping it to themselves but I'm 100% sure it comes out to their kid(s).

My colleague’s son got early acceptance to William and Mary. He’s been in honors classes since 3rd grade and got within the 1400-1500 range on his SATs. They are thrilled. Not seeing how someone would be upset unless they thought their kid was Ivy-bound.

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The irony that other PP tried to mention top schools with low acceptance rates in their post. Same pattern yet again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

and you're looking at Instagram for accurate information??? OMG, LOL.

Same poster who tries to infiltrate anonymous sites with bad information re: colleges about which they are completely ignorant.

Anonymous wrote:That's on the parents who are clearly disappointed with their kids.

I'm floored by the parents on here who are all bummed that their kid has to attend Case or William & Mary or Northeastern or Tulane or some other school "ranked 40+."

They may think that they're keeping it to themselves but I'm 100% sure it comes out to their kid(s).

My colleague’s son got early acceptance to William and Mary. He’s been in honors classes since 3rd grade and got within the 1400-1500 range on his SATs. They are thrilled. Not seeing how someone would be upset unless they thought their kid was Ivy-bound.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

There are also kids that are just not that into social media. At all.

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Nor are the TJ crowd interested in the entertaining parents who want to bash a TJ kid's college choice. From TJ, and other local top public schools, you start at the top. For free.

Just because your non-TJ kid doesn't get into a certain college (see: oft mentioned colleges on DCUM), does not mean it is a "bad" college. Some parents need to grow up and learn to stay in their lane, lest they get run over. You can pretend to be incredulous, but in the end, you are sending messages to your own children that you are disappointed in their options.

TJ has its own internal announcement system that includes detailed info. Hundreds participate in that vs the dozens who participate in the Instagram site.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

There are also kids that are just not that into social media. At all.

TJ kids aren’t into social media? Half of them want to be CS majors and a lot of those jobs are in social media. I don’t believe it.

Skilled organic farmers don't like to eat Cheetos? I don't believe it.

We will all know in about a month, by end of May. As a parent of a senior grad, I'm frustrated and disappointed, but also relived by now. The application process is long and unpredictable, requires a lots of guess and luck.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

There are also kids that are just not that into social media. At all.

TJ kids aren’t into social media? Half of them want to be CS majors and a lot of those jobs are in social media. I don’t believe it.

To be blunt, a lot of TJ & STEM oriented kids in general are a little on the nerdier side. They are definitely not into curating their social media accounts.

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

and you're looking at Instagram for accurate information??? OMG, LOL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Judging from the slow uptake on high school college decision Instagram accounts, it seems like a lot of kids don’t want to say where they’re going next year. TJ, in particular, is a no-show. A lot of publics and privates have one-third to half or more seniors reporting. TJ is 5 percen. Something busted this year.

There are also kids that are just not that into social media. At all.

TJ kids aren’t into social media? Half of them want to be CS majors and a lot of those jobs are in social media. I don’t believe it.

For all those saying that posting is a dying thing, that doesn’t explain the vast differences by school. Posting behavior makes clear this is not a public vs. private thing or a selective high school vs. public thing; it’s school specific. TJ is an anomaly, in a bad way.