Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is to get into an ivy-league or Top 25 college, going to T.J. will not help your child's chances. In fact, it will hurt them. Colleges consider applicants by comparing them to their peers at the high school they attend. T.J. has some of the brightest students in the entire country. That means that for the 75% of T.J. students who will not be in the top 25% of their class, they will be at a disadvantage when compared to students at regular high schools. Unfair to TJ kids, but true. So go to T.J. if (a) you want to be surrounded by some of the smartest kids in the country, (b) you want to take a number of high-tech courses not offered by base schools, or (c) you just want to bask in the prestige of saying you attend TJ. But do NOT attend solely because you think it will help you make Harvard or Yale. It won't (unless you are among the very brightest at TJ).

P.S. AET does not deserve a place in this discussion. It does not come close to the intellectual rigor of AOS.
P.P.S. If you child gets into both TJ and AOS, AND your goal is to get into a fancy college, then--without question--you should choose AOS. Because at AOS, colleges will compare the student with others at the base school, and undoubtedly your child will compare to them very favorably.

Most high schools don't report class rank, particularly those in wealth areas or those that have competitive environments.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is to get into an ivy-league or Top 25 college, going to T.J. will not help your child's chances. In fact, it will hurt them. Colleges consider applicants by comparing them to their peers at the high school they attend. T.J. has some of the brightest students in the entire country. That means that for the 75% of T.J. students who will not be in the top 25% of their class, they will be at a disadvantage when compared to students at regular high schools. Unfair to TJ kids, but true. So go to T.J. if (a) you want to be surrounded by some of the smartest kids in the country, (b) you want to take a number of high-tech courses not offered by base schools, or (c) you just want to bask in the prestige of saying you attend TJ. But do NOT attend solely because you think it will help you make Harvard or Yale. It won't (unless you are among the very brightest at TJ).

P.S. AET does not deserve a place in this discussion. It does not come close to the intellectual rigor of AOS.
P.P.S. If you child gets into both TJ and AOS, AND your goal is to get into a fancy college, then--without question--you should choose AOS. Because at AOS, colleges will compare the student with others at the base school, and undoubtedly your child will compare to them very favorably.

Anonymous wrote:AET has its first graduating class this year. I’m a senior and I have many classmates headed to UVA and Tech. I am going to VT myself

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is to get into an ivy-league or Top 25 college, going to T.J. will not help your child's chances. In fact, it will hurt them. Colleges consider applicants by comparing them to their peers at the high school they attend. T.J. has some of the brightest students in the entire country. That means that for the 75% of T.J. students who will not be in the top 25% of their class, they will be at a disadvantage when compared to students at regular high schools. Unfair to TJ kids, but true. So go to T.J. if (a) you want to be surrounded by some of the smartest kids in the country, (b) you want to take a number of high-tech courses not offered by base schools, or (c) you just want to bask in the prestige of saying you attend TJ. But do NOT attend solely because you think it will help you make Harvard or Yale. It won't (unless you are among the very brightest at TJ).

P.S. AET does not deserve a place in this discussion. It does not come close to the intellectual rigor of AOS.
P.P.S. If you child gets into both TJ and AOS, AND your goal is to get into a fancy college, then--without question--you should choose AOS. Because at AOS, colleges will compare the student with others at the base school, and undoubtedly your child will compare to them very favorably.

Anonymous wrote:AET has its first graduating class this year. I’m a senior and I have many classmates headed to UVA and Tech. I am going to VT myself

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am currently an AET sophomore and I would like to give you a breakdown of AET. I would like to talk about AET because many people are being way too arbitrary and biast towards it without actually having attended the program. AET is a school that is broken down into 3 separate pathways called IT, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship. IT is information technology and delves very deeply into computer science and I am a sophomore in IT, so I can give you the most input about that pathway. We have talked about fields such as data analytics, deep learning, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, virtual reality, mobile, app, and web development. ...

Anonymous wrote:Per our experience wait list is clarfied around 3rd week of April. But every year it can be different. To the earlier question - AET is also a rigorous program like AOS but is relatively new. My daughter is at AOS and is talking to the counselors to see if she can get on to one of the AET courses aligned with her interests.