How are TJ class 2025 Top 25 college admissions

[Anonymous]

Please do share to help parents making decisions about going or not going to TJ.

[Anonymous]

Please don’t make a decision to attend TJ based on a perceived colleges edge. It doesn’t work the way you hope it would. Top 5% base school/ top 25% TJ have similar options. — signed kid at base school and TJ kid parent.

[Anonymous]

The most recent year they gave numbers, top 4 schools attended by TJ kids were: UVA, WM, Pitt and VT, in that order.

Why yes, that does look like the profile of the top 5-10% of the base school.

[Anonymous]

If you are deciding TJ, your student will be prepared for some of the rigor and self-teaching needed for college. So they will have good college preparation.

But outcomes to college might not be to top25.

-TJ parent who didn’t believe this when I was first told this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t make a decision to attend TJ based on a perceived colleges edge. It doesn’t work the way you hope it would. Top 5% base school/ top 25% TJ have similar options. — signed kid at base school and TJ kid parent.

Not exactly.

The top 10% at TJ probably has better results than you can find at a base school. The next 40% is probably going to get into the same schools at the top 10% at a good base school.

It really doesn't give you an edge in college admissions unless you are in a position to really nail all the extra math and science classes and activities TJ has to offer. The average TJ student is probably not getting better college results than if they had stayed at their base school.

[Anonymous]

I heard some for UMich, UIUC, Purdue, Cornell, UPenn, CMU, UT Austin, Texas A&M in addition to VATech, UVA, W&M

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard some for UMich, UIUC, Purdue, Cornell, UPenn, CMU, UT Austin, Texas A&M in addition to VATech, UVA, W&M

also MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UChicago, Berkeley, Dartmouth, and a lot more

[Anonymous]

Mclean has at least 16 committed to the following: Stanford, Oxford, Duke, Northwestern, UPenn, Cornell, Brown, Vanderbilt, WashU, and Emory. At least four committed to Cornell alone as of yesterday.

More than 20 committed to UVA, W&M, or Virginia Tech.

Interestingly, at least seven committed to Penn State.

This is out of around 100 sharing their commitments so far.

Then there are kids choosing among HYPSM, Berkeley, etc.

Am sure students at TJ also did well. But just goes to show other schools can do well too.

Big congratulations to all the students!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard some for UMich, UIUC, Purdue, Cornell, UPenn, CMU, UT Austin, Texas A&M in addition to VATech, UVA, W&M

also MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UChicago, Berkeley, Dartmouth, and a lot more

Where do they publish these? Is it based on kids sharing info among each other?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t make a decision to attend TJ based on a perceived colleges edge. It doesn’t work the way you hope it would. Top 5% base school/ top 25% TJ have similar options. — signed kid at base school and TJ kid parent.

+1
If you are making a decision to go there based on thinking it will boost your college odds stay home. That is NOT a good reason for a kid/family to choose TJ.

- Mom of a TJ junior who loves it there and would pick it again, but surely would have been top 10% at home school and is not that high at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

I posted earlier about not picking TJ for college reasons.

The above point is stupid. TJ is an entire school of kids who would likely be the top layer at their base school. It SHOULD have higher numbers of kids getting into various schools than a given base school because of that. But for a given kid they likely stand a better chance of standing out for college at their base school - and so being of the the kids picked by colleges from that school - than at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

UVA doesn't admit by major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

This is like saying that there was no disadvantage to being asian in college admissions because asians are overrepresented at these colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

Thank you for sharing these numbers. This year’s cohort will be the first from the new admissions policy and it will be great to compare.