Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

No. TJ is 4 years of very advanced work that the other schools do not offer.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

drat. meant to say memorable high school experience

Like having memorable drinking, taking drugs and partying!

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Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

drat. meant to say memorable high school experience

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

Yawn. TJ's days are numbered.

Because your kid didn't make it?

TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

Yawn. TJ's days are numbered.

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Says the bottom 1%

Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Statistically if TJ does draw the smartest kids you'd think more like top 4% - 480/15000

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Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools.
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school.

All 480 TJ class would be conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools.
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school.

Anonymous wrote:yeah, and they leave fewer spaces for other high-achieving high school students at UVA. 149 spots for one high school? Haven't we subsidized these genius children enough??

Actually it's about 190 to 200 per year. 149 is a from partial list.

yeah, and they leave fewer spaces for other high-achieving high school students at UVA. 149 spots for one high school? Haven't we subsidized these genius children enough??