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<p>And that list shows why TJSS is basically the best high school in the country. ANyone who does 'good'/'average' there goes to a top school where most valedictorians are told to go jump off a cliff.</p>
<p>21 Kids to Princeton? I truly hate that high school. 8 To Harvard? 11 to MIT? Someone needs to stop hugging the adcoms. Let us have a chance at top schools too TJSS!!</p>
<p>^ holy crap, didnt see that....christ.........basically this high school is the world's idol for high schools. I dont even want to think about it when I remember that my schools average SAT score is 500 points (...out of 1600) lower than TJ's AVERAGE SAT score of 1500/1600....blegh.</p>
<p>TJSS's average SAT score out of 1600 is about 40 better, due to a better student body, because while Phillips is all rich kids and some smart kids, TJSS is...well, all smart kids.</p>
<p>Theres a reason wy TJSS is the best high school in the country. It's the Princeton of high schools according to USNEWs, and its students i guess simply see going to princeton as the next logical and given step in life</p>
<p>Wow RootBeer, your generalizations are totally wrong. Rich and smart are not mutually exclusive, one can be both rich AND smart. Are you trying to tell me that people who live in Alexandria/TJ county area are not upper middle class/ upper class Americans? The area is saturated with professionals and high income families, who presumably, like to send their kids to top notch schools such as TJ. While Philips Exeter may have students there purely because of financial merit, they are a small part of the student population, and that is still not to say they won't be successful. If you haven't noticed, many children who come from excessively wealthy families are able to pursue successful careers in public service, finance, or just about anything because they already have the connections and capital. </p>
<p>And about the SAT. 40 points is not even a statistically significant difference. It falls into the range of "actual scores" that the college board gives you on the score report. They are both many standard deviations from the norm. </p>
<p>Not only that, your comparison of TJ as "the Princeton of high schools" directly contradicts your earlier statement "TJSS is...well, all smart kids." Like in all the Ivies, there is a substantial number of affluent students at Princeton, and even a handful who "got in" because their families are able to donate millions of dollars to the school. As a matter of fact, fifty years ago, Princeton was stereotyped as a elitist, snobbish bunch of students who exemplified Ivy-League pretentiousness, and certainly most of them were not "smart" by today's standards in our world of college admissions. </p>
<p>My last argument is, if TJ is so much better than Andover or Exeter, how is it that more students from the latter are admitted into schools such as HPYSPenn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, etc.</p>
<p>I would bank on the fact that Phillips Andover/Exeter have more kids from low income backgrounds than TJSS. Saying that everyone at Andover is rich is a very misinformed statement; over 40% of students are on financial aid.</p>
<p>USNews did not include prep schools in their rankings - doesn't mean that TSHSST wouldn't be ahead of it if they did - it's a great school.</p>