Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 22:16     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends. If you aim at UVA, TJ is a way to go. If your child is an average or below average at TJ (your class rank could be a lot better at a regular home base high school, then you may not get into your first choice.


We have 4 kids in our street who went to UVA. They did not go to tj.


UVA is a safety for TJ kids. TJ kids attend UVA only for the cheap tuition.


And here we go again. This is like Groundhog Day. You really haven’t gotten any of what we’ve been saying. For top base school kids, UVA is also a safety. You don’t need TJ!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 22:14     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: Studying education or communication and minoring in Sociology. I think s/he is in the bottom 50%. We are really working the "connections" to get him/her a job after graduation.



Wait a minute, so you think studying education is a bad thing? Would you make fun of that major, to say, all of your child’s teachers, who helped him develop into the person who eventually got into TJ? Or to your child’s TJ teachers? TJ parents really are a piece of work!


Most teachers at TJ have Ph.D., J.D., Masters in subject areas such as math, physics, English, history etc.


I wonder if they went to TJ too.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 21:45     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends. If you aim at UVA, TJ is a way to go. If your child is an average or below average at TJ (your class rank could be a lot better at a regular home base high school, then you may not get into your first choice.


We have 4 kids in our street who went to UVA. They did not go to tj.


UVA is a safety for TJ kids. TJ kids attend UVA only for the cheap tuition.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 21:40     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: Studying education or communication and minoring in Sociology. I think s/he is in the bottom 50%. We are really working the "connections" to get him/her a job after graduation.



Wait a minute, so you think studying education is a bad thing? Would you make fun of that major, to say, all of your child’s teachers, who helped him develop into the person who eventually got into TJ? Or to your child’s TJ teachers? TJ parents really are a piece of work!


Hirs too close to home, doesn't it?
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 21:39     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol




https://engineering.virginia.edu/departments/computer-science


But wait, wasn’t GMU also supposed to have a great CS department according to an earlier TJ poster? Lol.


GMU and NOVA are preferred by base school kids not TJ grads.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 21:29     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol


That’s exactly what I was going to post! Great minds think alike!


Two great minds! They eliminated CS department at UVA.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 21:27     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: Studying education or communication and minoring in Sociology. I think s/he is in the bottom 50%. We are really working the "connections" to get him/her a job after graduation.



Wait a minute, so you think studying education is a bad thing? Would you make fun of that major, to say, all of your child’s teachers, who helped him develop into the person who eventually got into TJ? Or to your child’s TJ teachers? TJ parents really are a piece of work!


Most teachers at TJ have Ph.D., J.D., Masters in subject areas such as math, physics, English, history etc.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:24     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol




https://engineering.virginia.edu/departments/computer-science


But wait, wasn’t GMU also supposed to have a great CS department according to an earlier TJ poster? Lol.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:23     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: Studying education or communication and minoring in Sociology. I think s/he is in the bottom 50%. We are really working the "connections" to get him/her a job after graduation.



Wait a minute, so you think studying education is a bad thing? Would you make fun of that major, to say, all of your child’s teachers, who helped him develop into the person who eventually got into TJ? Or to your child’s TJ teachers? TJ parents really are a piece of work!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:19     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol




https://engineering.virginia.edu/departments/computer-science
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:19     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol


That’s exactly what I was going to post! Great minds think alike!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:18     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol


https://engineering.virginia.edu/departments/computer-science
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 20:04     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Meh. The people that should be most embarrassed by the thread are the inane posters on both sides.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:34     Subject: Re:How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ parent: My kid went to the "top math and science magnet school in the country!"
Base parent: Wow! That's amazing! What college did he/she end up at?
TJ parent: UVA.
Base parent: Oh, that's where my kid is going!
TJ parent: My kid is majoring in CS or engineering or similar major and is in top 10%. What about your kid?
Base parent: She is majoring in math and physics. Really proud of both of them!



I can't resist piling on

Yall realize UVA doesn't even have a CS department and the engineering and math and science departments are barely top 50. So much for a supposed STEM school lol
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:26     Subject: How important is TJ for college?
Anonymous wrote:I just fired a TJ grad today. I caught her fudging data. No second chance.

Didn't know there were TJ graduates working for janitors