Where are TJ kids going?

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Anonymous wrote:How did TJ kids do on ivy day?

Probably the best year in recent memory! 10+ MIT, at least 8 H.

Usually 10+ kids do get into MIT every year except for last year. But, I agree there are more Harvard acceptances this year. I heard a few Yale and UPenn acceptances, but nothing much about Princeton/Cornell/Brown.

10 accepted at MIT out of a graduating class of 500 is not impressive. BTW, Collegiate in NY and St. Ann is Brooklyn have a 50% ivy rate. (Now that's impressive.)

You have no idea what you're talking about. 10 schools in the COUNTRY probably send that many kids to MIT.

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MIT is not going to take 50 kids from the same school! Public and privates are different too. Far more kids with financial concerns about college who are looking at a different range of options and making choices based on different factors.

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Anonymous wrote:WM reaches down to the top 1/3 at any ol school.
That WM will take an extra 1/3 from TJ makes TJ OK, not great.

If you look at the W&M Scattergram for TJ, they mostly take students above 4.0GPA. They have denied kids with less than 4.0 GPA

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Anonymous wrote:How did TJ kids do on ivy day?

Probably the best year in recent memory! 10+ MIT, at least 8 H.

Usually 10+ kids do get into MIT every year except for last year. But, I agree there are more Harvard acceptances this year. I heard a few Yale and UPenn acceptances, but nothing much about Princeton/Cornell/Brown.

10 accepted at MIT out of a graduating class of 500 is not impressive. BTW, Collegiate in NY and St. Ann is Brooklyn have a 50% ivy rate. (Now that's impressive.)

That is indeed impressive. Are those public schools? If not, you’re comparing apples to oranges.

DP. Agreed in terms of acceptances per school, but PP has a point about student ratio for a magnet. Blair has only 100 per year in program but usually sends 4-7 to MIT each year. I think the model of 1 large magnet disadvantages the students in admissions overall.

100%. MIT can't admit 20 students a year from one school although it would be easier to do from all of Fairfax County and the alternative private schools they would go to in MD or DC

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Anonymous wrote:WM reaches down to the top 1/3 at any ol school.
That WM will take an extra 1/3 from TJ makes TJ OK, not great.

If you look at the W&M Scattergram for TJ, they mostly take students above 4.0GPA. They have denied kids with less than 4.0 GPA

Given the required honors courses at TJ a weighted 4.0 is probably the bottom 1/3 b

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Anonymous wrote:All the places they usually go. MIT. UVA. Ivies, I assume. Carnegie Mellon. Johns Hopkins. GA Tech. Purdue. William & Mary. VA Tech. Maryland. Pitt. Illinois. These are the big TJ schools. Don’t much go in for SLACs.

Surprisingly few report VT. Twice as many attend UMD.

Anyone know why? Seems illogical given in state tuition.

Students may want more of a campus experience (fewer commuters, big ten sports- get to see Caitlin Clark play), may have gotten merit, are drawn to the high ranking CS program, math major (some truly brillant students - look at Putnam placings) and good engineering program. Who knows, maybe they wanted to major in Fire Protection Engineering or be away from home, but not too far away.

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Anonymous wrote:All the places they usually go. MIT. UVA. Ivies, I assume. Carnegie Mellon. Johns Hopkins. GA Tech. Purdue. William & Mary. VA Tech. Maryland. Pitt. Illinois. These are the big TJ schools. Don’t much go in for SLACs.

Surprisingly few report VT. Twice as many attend UMD.

Anyone know why? Seems illogical given in state tuition.

DS from non-TJ FCPS, HS class of 23, is at UMD for CS. They offered just enough merit to make the cost comparable with UVA engineering. He didn't apply to VT.

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VTech admissions seem unpredictable. My DS got into UVA and UMichigan, but not VTech with 4.4 GPA, 1580 SAT with ok ECs last year.

If you look at last two years CDS, they selected several thousands from waitlist in one year, the next year almost none.

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Anonymous wrote:WM reaches down to the top 1/3 at any ol school.
That WM will take an extra 1/3 from TJ makes TJ OK, not great.

At which FCPS HS is WM going below the top 10-15% for any a white or Asian UMC unhooked kid?

W&M has an admit rate of 30% (yawn), WM is a solid silver, it's not MIT or Harvard, WM will take the top 1/3ish at most decent high schools.

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Here are some statistics:
https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

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Anonymous wrote:TJ kids do look down their noses at Tech. Maryland has more prestige, they feel.

Take that, all of you people who say Virginia has better in-state options for college.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ kids do look down their noses at Tech. Maryland has more prestige, they feel.

Take that, all of you people who say Virginia has better in-state options for college.

Have you BEEN to college park? The setting of UMD is the worst thing about it and makes it hard to like.

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Anonymous wrote:All the places they usually go. MIT. UVA. Ivies, I assume. Carnegie Mellon. Johns Hopkins. GA Tech. Purdue. William & Mary. VA Tech. Maryland. Pitt. Illinois. These are the big TJ schools. Don’t much go in for SLACs.

Surprisingly few report VT. Twice as many attend UMD.

Anyone know why? Seems illogical given in state tuition.

VT likes to reject TJ students without rhyme or reason. UMD is more predictable. Plus, a lot of TJ students get scholarships from UMD of $10k/yr or more that help bring the price down close to in-state levels.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ kids really don't need colleges. Colleges need them.

Haha kinda true! On a related note, my wife’s team at work had a summer intern from TJ and she was blown away by the high quality / highly technical work by the girl from TJ (the interns presented their work at the end of the summer). Everyone was clamoring to have her join their team.

I had an intern from TJ, got into T20 school, not blown away by any means, really, nothing brilliant, typical teenager, high achiever and with helicopter parents that push them, tutor them, connect them

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Anonymous wrote:WM reaches down to the top 1/3 at any ol school.
That WM will take an extra 1/3 from TJ makes TJ OK, not great.

At which FCPS HS is WM going below the top 10-15% for any a white or Asian UMC unhooked kid?

W&M has an admit rate of 30% (yawn), WM is a solid silver, it's not MIT or Harvard, WM will take the top 1/3ish at most decent high schools.

It’s so much tougher academically. Kids come out if it much more prepared for anything.

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Anonymous wrote:A serious question. Where did students in the *bottom* half of the TJ class end up ? Those bottom half students likely worked very hard and are also bright.

MANY go out of state to schools like Pitt, Purdue, Boston U etc. These places really like TJ kids and as you mention bottom half in TJ is still a highly qualified applicant.

The issue only is for in-state where UVA, VT and W&M will accept only a limited number of TJ kids. But if the student is willing to go OOS, the TJ brand opens up many places. My DC was a 4.1, 1500+, avg EC's kid. Got rejected from UVA, VT. But got in at UIUC, which actually has a better engineering program that either UVa or VT