TJ class of 2018 college list

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Anonymous wrote:NP here- what does it matter if a vast majority end up at UVA/William and Mary etc. - great schools but frankly, nothing to drive yourself TJ for.

My TJ grad at W&M would disagree. She was much better prepared for college than the kids from her base school - in fact, she's found college pretty easy.

And as been said over and over and over again on this board, don't send your kid to TJ just so they can get into a "top" college. The value of the school for bright, motivated kids is so much more than that.

My IB diploma grad says the same thing about Tufts. Her freshman year was significantly easier than high school, and her roommate and several friends were struggling. TJ is not the only way to a rigorous high school education that prepares students well for the rigors of college. It can be created at any school.

Actually, no. The kids from her base HS struggled at W&M freshman year, even though most of them had schedules filled with AP classes since sophomore year. IB schools are more rigorous, though, than the typical AP-focused HS.

That is going to be school dependent. Anyone want to argue that Lee or Mt. Vernon are more rigorous than Langley, McLean or Chantilly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP here- what does it matter if a vast majority end up at UVA/William and Mary etc. - great schools but frankly, nothing to drive yourself TJ for.

My TJ grad at W&M would disagree. She was much better prepared for college than the kids from her base school - in fact, she's found college pretty easy.

And as been said over and over and over again on this board, don't send your kid to TJ just so they can get into a "top" college. The value of the school for bright, motivated kids is so much more than that.

My IB diploma grad says the same thing about Tufts. Her freshman year was significantly easier than high school, and her roommate and several friends were struggling. TJ is not the only way to a rigorous high school education that prepares students well for the rigors of college. It can be created at any school.

Actually, no. The kids from her base HS struggled at W&M freshman year, even though most of them had schedules filled with AP classes since sophomore year. IB schools are more rigorous, though, than the typical AP-focused HS.

I call BS.

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Anonymous wrote:More folks going to, say, Pitt than to William and Mary is interesting. These numbers should be extremely concerning for William and Mary. The school has been eclipsed by UVA and, now, VT.

The numbers aren't final and one year wouldn't constitute a trend. Last year, 2017, TJ graduate enrollment was reported as: UVA 62 ,VT 42 ,WM 39, VCU 10, and GMU 7. If you consider the size of undergraduate class sizes at those schools, W&M had a higher percentage of TJ grads in their entering class than any other Virginia public school (about 2.5% of the total class). UVA had about 60% as many on a percentage basis as W&M, VT 26%, VCU 7%, and GMU 5%.

We can look at this year's final and next year and see if there is a trend.

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Anonymous wrote:More folks going to, say, Pitt than to William and Mary is interesting. These numbers should be extremely concerning for William and Mary. The school has been eclipsed by UVA and, now, VT.

The numbers aren't final and one year wouldn't constitute a trend. Last year, 2017, TJ graduate enrollment was reported as: UVA 62 ,VT 42 ,WM 39, VCU 10, and GMU 7. If you consider the size of undergraduate class sizes at those schools, W&M had a higher percentage of TJ grads in their entering class than any other Virginia public school (about 2.5% of the total class). UVA had about 60% as many on a percentage basis as W&M, VT 26%, VCU 7%, and GMU 5%.

We can look at this year's final and next year and see if there is a trend.

I've actually always been impressed by how many TJ grads choose W&M given that it doesn't have a full engineering school (only science and applied science).

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Anonymous wrote:NP here- what does it matter if a vast majority end up at UVA/William and Mary etc. - great schools but frankly, nothing to drive yourself TJ for.

My TJ grad at W&M would disagree. She was much better prepared for college than the kids from her base school - in fact, she's found college pretty easy.

And as been said over and over and over again on this board, don't send your kid to TJ just so they can get into a "top" college. The value of the school for bright, motivated kids is so much more than that.

My IB diploma grad says the same thing about Tufts. Her freshman year was significantly easier than high school, and her roommate and several friends were struggling. TJ is not the only way to a rigorous high school education that prepares students well for the rigors of college. It can be created at any school.

Actually, no. The kids from her base HS struggled at W&M freshman year, even though most of them had schedules filled with AP classes since sophomore year. IB schools are more rigorous, though, than the typical AP-focused HS.

That is going to be school dependent. Anyone want to argue that Lee or Mt. Vernon are more rigorous than Langley, McLean or Chantilly?

There is no IB school in FCPS, much less Lee and Mount Vernon, more rigorous than Langley, McLean or Chantilly.

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Marshall IB is more rigorous than Langley and McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:Marshall IB is more rigorous than Langley and McLean.

Lolololololz.

Oh wait—you were serious?

— TJ parent not zoned for Langley, McLean or Marshall. But base school Chantilly, so thanks for recognizing Marshall is not more rigorous than Chantilly, either.

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Anonymous wrote:Marshall IB is more rigorous than Langley and McLean.

+1

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Living in McLean (and knowing kids at Langley, McLean, TJ, and Marshall IB, including my DCs), I cannot comment on Chantilly - it may be great, it may be horrible, I just don't know. But I do know that Marshall IB is more rigorous than Langley or McLean. I would not say that Marshall IB is more rigorous than TJ, though at times it is as rigorous as TJ, just with a different focus.

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We moved from the Marshall district to McLean. You can get a good education at both schools but the teachers at McLean were more demanding (i.e., had higher expectations of students). It wasn't even close.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved from the Marshall district to McLean. You can get a good education at both schools but the teachers at McLean were more demanding (i.e., had higher expectations of students). It wasn't even close.

+1. I’ve heard the same.

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Anonymous wrote:No Berkeley students?

And 23 going to Pitt? Wow.

Why wow?

DP—I had the same reaction. That’s a lot of kids from the same high school going to a school that is not in-state. That’s all. Just surprised.

Pitt gives extremely good scholarships for academics.