Partial List of College Acceptances for TJ Class of 2014

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

Yeah, that RIGHT! You tell 'em!

[Anonymous]

No. TJ is 4 years of very advanced work that the other schools do not offer.

Gee. I always thought these kids were naturally smart.

[Anonymous]

I do wonder how the sharp drop-off in applications to TJ will affect the college admissions down the road. It may take a few years to show up, but clearly fewer and fewer students want to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

Do you have real numbers to back that up?

I would guess the elite privates send a higher percentage of students to top Ivies. I am not talking about the raw acceptance number but the actual matriculation rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

Do you have real numbers to back that up?

I would guess the elite privates send a higher percentage of students to top Ivies. I am not talking about the raw acceptance number but the actual matriculation rate.

TJ college acceptance/enrollment history (2009 - 2013)

Brown University
64 28
University of California at Berkeley
58 12
California Institute of Technology
51 24
University of Chicago
60 17
Columbia University
53 27
Cornell University
203 77
Dartmouth College
59 29
Duke University
166 57
Georgetown University
65 20
Harvard College
30 23
Johns Hopkins University
63 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
97 68
University of Michigan
137 21
New York University
90 20
Northwestern University
63 13
University of Pennsylvania
60 32
Princeton University
97 53
Stanford University
51 38
University of Virginia
1115 498
Yale University
56 28

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

So privates should be avoided so either Lee or Mount Vernon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

Do you have real numbers to back that up?

I would guess the elite privates send a higher percentage of students to top Ivies. I am not talking about the raw acceptance number but the actual matriculation rate.

TJ college acceptance/enrollment history (2009 - 2013)

Brown University
64 28
University of California at Berkeley
58 12
California Institute of Technology
51 24
University of Chicago
60 17
Columbia University
53 27
Cornell University
203 77
Dartmouth College
59 29
Duke University
166 57
Georgetown University
65 20
Harvard College
30 23
Johns Hopkins University
63 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
97 68
University of Michigan
137 21
New York University
90 20
Northwestern University
63 13
University of Pennsylvania
60 32
Princeton University
97 53
Stanford University
51 38
University of Virginia
1115 498
Yale University
56 28

These are 5 years totals ... On average each year

Harvard: 4 - 5
Yale: 5 - 6
Princeton: 10 - 11
Columbia: 5 - 6

Impressive numbers indeed. But I think elite privates especially those in New England probably send more percentage wise than TJ does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

Do you have real numbers to back that up?

I would guess the elite privates send a higher percentage of students to top Ivies. I am not talking about the raw acceptance number but the actual matriculation rate.

TJ college acceptance/enrollment history (2009 - 2013)

Brown University
64 28
University of California at Berkeley
58 12
California Institute of Technology
51 24
University of Chicago
60 17
Columbia University
53 27
Cornell University
203 77
Dartmouth College
59 29
Duke University
166 57
Georgetown University
65 20
Harvard College
30 23
Johns Hopkins University
63 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
97 68
University of Michigan
137 21
New York University
90 20
Northwestern University
63 13
University of Pennsylvania
60 32
Princeton University
97 53
Stanford University
51 38
University of Virginia
1115 498
Yale University
56 28

These are 5 years totals ... On average each year

Harvard: 4 - 5
Yale: 5 - 6
Princeton: 10 - 11
Columbia: 5 - 6

Impressive numbers indeed. But I think elite privates especially those in New England probably send more percentage wise than TJ does.

The posting says "best overall college acceptances" meaning Ivy plus other top schools as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools.
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school.

All 480 TJ class would be conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school? Really?

The number of innumerates on this thread is really astonishing...you didn't even understand the 5th grade math I did up there. In addition, the 480 kids don't come from something like 25 base schools in Fairfax alone, in addition to Loundoun and Arlington.