Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 17:51     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.



Really, and parents who send their kids to boarding school aren’t striving?


LOL you think Sidwell, Georgetown Prep, Visi, St Albans, Exeter, Philips, Deerfield, Regis, Fieldston, Dalton, Horace Mann parents are on forums like this obsessing over how they can twist their kid's school to seem more elite than it is? No, they're confident and don't give a **** what YOU think. Only desperate TJ (and GDS) parents do this all day.


Envious much?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 17:05     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.



Really, and parents who send their kids to boarding school aren’t striving?


LOL you think Sidwell, Georgetown Prep, Visi, St Albans, Exeter, Philips, Deerfield, Regis, Fieldston, Dalton, Horace Mann parents are on forums like this obsessing over how they can twist their kid's school to seem more elite than it is? No, they're confident and don't give a **** what YOU think. Only desperate TJ (and GDS) parents do this all day.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 14:22     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only true public schools should be a metric. Magnet schools big deal - students and parents are drivers. What is top true public school on list


It’s a good question. But “true public HSs” at the top aren’t true public HSs. They will be small public high schools in very affluent areas with a very high concentration of college professors, STEM workers Etc.


So true.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 13:24     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:Only true public schools should be a metric. Magnet schools big deal - students and parents are drivers. What is top true public school on list


It’s a good question. But “true public HSs” at the top aren’t true public HSs. They will be small public high schools in very affluent areas with a very high concentration of college professors, STEM workers Etc.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 13:18     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Only true public schools should be a metric. Magnet schools big deal - students and parents are drivers. What is top true public school on list
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 11:35     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.



Really, and parents who send their kids to boarding school aren’t striving?
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 11:01     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dumb list OP. Obviously using only H P and MIT to juke the outcome. Include Yale and Stanford or this is worthless.


Also worthless to use number of students rather than percentage. Big high schools are going to fare much better than small ones.



Not really. In holistic admissions, there are soft caps by regions and HSs. Harvard is only going to take so many NOVA kids, and they are going to try to get a least a couple to TJ.

Much more interesting would be unhooked kids. Which actually speaks to academic strength. It’s a lot easier to get in when dads a powerful legacy.
Anonymous
Post 08/18/2019 09:22     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:Dumb list OP. Obviously using only H P and MIT to juke the outcome. Include Yale and Stanford or this is worthless.


Also worthless to use number of students rather than percentage. Big high schools are going to fare much better than small ones.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2019 21:46     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
Anonymous wrote:" Yale made a mistake not investing in STEM. "

Yale made an even bigger mistake not leaving CT with GE when GE escaped to Boston.


Not sure I would model any behaviors after GE. Destroyed 1/2 trillion in market cap and I suspect that their losses in long term health care insurance that they are hiding may result in corporate fraud charges. It’s been a long fall...oh, an Execs that relocated to Boston - they moved their family’s back. Their kids hated it so they moved them back.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2019 20:28     Subject: Best High Schools in America for Top Universities
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/16/the-real-story-of-how-virginia-won-amazon-hq2/

Everyone in the STEM nerds and quants are the background grunts crowd might want to read it and weep.