TJHSST Class of 2017 College Destination List

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

+1,000!! Totally underwhelming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

+1,000!! Totally underwhelming.

First— 100% of TJ kids go to college. So you are seeing the destinations for kids with a 3.2 as well as a 4.6 GPA. And there is no NoVA or Longwood or Radford in the mix for the 3.2 kids.

Second, you send your kid to TJ for the education and the peer group and the research opportunities in an area of strong interest. Excellent chance your kid will end up at the same college from TJ— but probably much better prepared. Parents who use TJ for an ivy edge or for bragging rights do their kids no favors. Lots of kids love the TJ experience. Kids who don’t should move back to their base school— or not apply at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

+1,000!! Totally underwhelming.

First— 100% of TJ kids go to college. So you are seeing the destinations for kids with a 3.2 as well as a 4.6 GPA. And there is no NoVA or Longwood or Radford in the mix for the 3.2 kids.

Second, you send your kid to TJ for the education and the peer group and the research opportunities in an area of strong interest. Excellent chance your kid will end up at the same college from TJ— but probably much better prepared. Parents who use TJ for an ivy edge or for bragging rights do their kids no favors. Lots of kids love the TJ experience. Kids who don’t should move back to their base school— or not apply at all.

Sorry, but the list is still underwhelming to me. VCU and JMU?! From TJ????

[Anonymous]

And GMU?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And GMU?!

Yes, in-state tuition and great schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And GMU?!

Yes, in-state tuition and great schools.

Sorry, GMU is not a great school at all.

[Anonymous]

And JMU isn't great either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

[Anonymous]

Will any TJ parent ever admit it wasn't worth it? Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

My DC was offered Echols from her FCPS school. It seems like a nice perk, but comes with no $$$, so DC will probably attend elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

Where have you got your numbers about Echols TJ students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

My DC was offered Echols from her FCPS school. It seems like a nice perk, but comes with no $$$, so DC will probably attend elsewhere.

Any opinion on whether VCU, JMU, GMU are great schools to get into after attending TJ?! Do they require the rigor that is TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

+1,000!! Totally underwhelming.

First— 100% of TJ kids go to college. So you are seeing the destinations for kids with a 3.2 as well as a 4.6 GPA. And there is no NoVA or Longwood or Radford in the mix for the 3.2 kids.

Second, you send your kid to TJ for the education and the peer group and the research opportunities in an area of strong interest. Excellent chance your kid will end up at the same college from TJ— but probably much better prepared. Parents who use TJ for an ivy edge or for bragging rights do their kids no favors. Lots of kids love the TJ experience. Kids who don’t should move back to their base school— or not apply at all.

Sorry, but the list is still underwhelming to me. VCU and JMU?! From TJ????

JMU was a surprise, because this was the first kid to go in several years. Who knows their reasoning. Some kids have parents who went, or got a scholarship, or were ranked 432/435 at TJ. It happens. VCU is not a surprise. They have an excellent direct admit 6 year college/ medical school program. You do 2 years of college, and 4 years of med school there, without having to reapply to med school. Good scholarships, little or no debt for med school. Every year, several Tj kids do this program. Before you decide that a particular college is not worthy or should be discounted, so some reasearch. You may discover that a school you consider subpar is the best school in the country in geothermal energy research, so something equally esoteric, which is what the kid did their senior mentorship or research lab in. For example, my sophomore DD is working with the CubeSat program at TJ and applying for the senior astrophysics lab. She has the University of Alabama on her short list of colleges (first choice: Cal Tech to work with JPL). You would look down your nose at this. She sees the special programs they have that collaborate with NASA.

Don’t judge what you don’t know.

Before you discount

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

My DC was offered Echols from her FCPS school. It seems like a nice perk, but comes with no $$$, so DC will probably attend elsewhere.

Any opinion on whether VCU, JMU, GMU are great schools to get into after attending TJ?! Do they require the rigor that is TJ?

Great schools? Nope. Bad options for the bottom 10% of the class? Nope. Do their general colleges require TJ level rigor? Again, nope. But VCU 6 year med school does. And GMU has an excellent and well regarded CS department.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And JMU isn't great either.

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14. And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.

My DC was offered Echols from her FCPS school. It seems like a nice perk, but comes with no $$$, so DC will probably attend elsewhere.

Any opinion on whether VCU, JMU, GMU are great schools to get into after attending TJ?! Do they require the rigor that is TJ?

Great schools? Nope. Bad options for the bottom 10% of the class? Nope. Do their general colleges require TJ level rigor? Again, nope. But VCU 6 year med school does. And GMU has an excellent and well regarded CS department.

Yes, I’m sure the students choose GMU for Computer Science.