Anonymous
08/25/2015 08:56
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Thousands in sat prep is a realistic budget for high school years if you want to give any prep at all in a tutoring place. There is also sat ii.
Anonymous
08/14/2015 00:55
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.
Mary Baldwin is a small liberal arts school in Virginia that is NOT selective. They admit 90% of applicants. They have a program for gifted girls aged 13 to 15 to bypass high school and attend college. The average SAT score for all admitted students in Critical reading is from 440 to 550 (25th to 75th percentile rank) and math is 400 to 510. I would assume the 13 to 15 year olds might score around those ranges as 8th graders and would score much higher as 11th graders if they stayed in a regular high school. I picture all the girls at TJ could score that high on the SAT as 8th graders. You would be around a smarter cohort of people at TJ than the undergrad class at MB, so I don't understand why you would send your daughter there. So don't assume that if your daughter got into MB she would:a) get into TJ and b) be one of the most academically advanced if she does get in.
Those scores in 8th grade would easily qualify you for the less selective CTY track-- and way over qualify you for the intensive track. Are parents seriously sending 13 year olds to COLLEGE based on such low SATs? Does anyone take the degree seriously and let kids head directly to grad school? BecAuse SATs in the 400s make t sound like "MB" is a very impressed with itself high school boarding school. TJ kids would easily be hitting high 500s and above (often well above) in 8th.
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/academic_princeton_eligibility.pdf
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/intensive_eligibility.pdf
My TJ kid scored over 700 in all 3 sections of SAT in 7th grade to remain eligible for CTY and many CTY kids who end up at TJ score over 600 in reading and math.
Anonymous
08/13/2015 21:19
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.
Mary Baldwin is a small liberal arts school in Virginia that is NOT selective. They admit 90% of applicants. They have a program for gifted girls aged 13 to 15 to bypass high school and attend college. The average SAT score for all admitted students in Critical reading is from 440 to 550 (25th to 75th percentile rank) and math is 400 to 510. I would assume the 13 to 15 year olds might score around those ranges as 8th graders and would score much higher as 11th graders if they stayed in a regular high school. I picture all the girls at TJ could score that high on the SAT as 8th graders. You would be around a smarter cohort of people at TJ than the undergrad class at MB, so I don't understand why you would send your daughter there. So don't assume that if your daughter got into MB she would:a) get into TJ and b) be one of the most academically advanced if she does get in.
Those scores in 8th grade would easily qualify you for the less selective CTY track-- and way over qualify you for the intensive track. Are parents seriously sending 13 year olds to COLLEGE based on such low SATs? Does anyone take the degree seriously and let kids head directly to grad school? BecAuse SATs in the 400s make t sound like "MB" is a very impressed with itself high school boarding school. TJ kids would easily be hitting high 500s and above (often well above) in 8th.
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/academic_princeton_eligibility.pdf
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/docs/intensive_eligibility.pdf
Anonymous
08/13/2015 21:07
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.
Mary Baldwin is a small liberal arts school in Virginia that is NOT selective. They admit 90% of applicants. They have a program for gifted girls aged 13 to 15 to bypass high school and attend college. The average SAT score for all admitted students in Critical reading is from 440 to 550 (25th to 75th percentile rank) and math is 400 to 510. I would assume the 13 to 15 year olds might score around those ranges as 8th graders and would score much higher as 11th graders if they stayed in a regular high school. I picture all the girls at TJ could score that high on the SAT as 8th graders. You would be around a smarter cohort of people at TJ than the undergrad class at MB, so I don't understand why you would send your daughter there. So don't assume that if your daughter got into MB she would:a) get into TJ and b) be one of the most academically advanced if she does get in.
Anonymous
08/13/2015 20:32
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:Why not?
It's a waste of time, energy and, if there is an application fee, money, for starters
Anonymous
08/13/2015 20:31
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Why not?
Anonymous
08/13/2015 10:58
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.
If she is not going, why apply?
Anonymous
08/08/2015 15:06
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:A kid you would consider sending to college at 13 does not need SAT prep courses. WTH?
+1000. "Thousands of dollars" in SAT prep? For a TJ sure thing who is so brilliant she needs college at 13. Does not add up. My guess? Tiger mom. Poor kid. Kids with parents like these fake admissions letters to duel enrollment ivy programs and kill themselves when they get their first B.
Anonymous
08/08/2015 11:49
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
A kid you would consider sending to college at 13 does not need SAT prep courses. WTH?
Anonymous
08/08/2015 11:28
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:No. Why would I want to get rid is a great child? Quite the opposite, indeed.
So why are you applying for college at 13? I find it hard to believe that neither FCPS nor a DC area private (since you are apparently able to pay private tuition at Mary Baldwin) can meet your DC's educational needs w/AAP, TJ, AP, IB, etc. Especially since you can use NOVA & Mason to supplement, and also take classes through CTY, get support through Davidson scholars, etc. MB might be the best of bad options for a brilliant kid from a low SES, poor performing school system. But, FCPS kids are winning all sorts of national academic competitions (AMC 10, Westinghouse, Odyssey of the Mind, We the People, national Merit, etc) That means that either you are trying to offload your DC or that you are applying knowing she would never attend, just for bragging rights. Which is fu**ed up even by tiger mom/ overachieving FCPS standards.
Anonymous
08/08/2015 11:06
Subject: Re:Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:We looked into this. It is very expensive and my DD will be gone to college soon enough.
Plus, when you live in nova, you're better off taking advantage of the AP and other advanced offerings in the high school here and then applying to good colleges. There's no advantage to rushing off to college. Maturity can be a wonderful thing.
Anonymous
08/08/2015 10:14
Subject: Re:Thomas Jefferson Test
We looked into this. It is very expensive and my DD will be gone to college soon enough.
Anonymous
08/08/2015 08:50
Subject: Re:Thomas Jefferson Test
Not that poster, but I am assuming she means PEG at Mary Baldwin College: http://www.mbc.edu/early_college/peg/
Anonymous
08/08/2015 08:40
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
Anonymous wrote:MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.
Very common in NOVA.
Anonymous
08/08/2015 07:16
Subject: Thomas Jefferson Test
MB is an actual college with a special track for super smart girls who are 13+. But, she's not going. She's a typical teen, just super smart. Let me remind you that I only shared this after feeling attacked. Reread the posts.