Who Are the Best TJHSST Alumni?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since we always hear about how it’s head-over-heels the best school in the DMV, what do kids from there do after graduation that’s so special?

Their wiki is a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_for_Science_and_Technology. And clicking on some of their names, they’ve overwhelmingly attended the usual suspects: Harvard, Stanford, Duke, MIT

Interesting to see the notable alumni list where the majority is white even though the majority of TJ student body is Asian.

[Anonymous]

My wife is. It is interesting to see as the early classes are now adults in their 50's what some of them have done, pretty impressive group

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since we always hear about how it’s head-over-heels the best school in the DMV, what do kids from there do after graduation that’s so special?

Their wiki is a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_for_Science_and_Technology. And clicking on some of their names, they’ve overwhelmingly attended the usual suspects: Harvard, Stanford, Duke, MIT

Interesting to see the notable alumni list where the majority is white even though the majority of TJ student body is Asian.

TJ was majority white for decades and became Asian majority relatively recently.

[Anonymous]

Danny Lee (‘99) is a very successful chef and restauranteur in DC (Anju, Mandu, Chiko).

[Anonymous]

Yohannes Abraham, government official[70]
Chris Avellone, game designer[71]
Praveen Balakrishnan, Chess Grandmaster[72]
Sandra Beasley, poet[73]
Bob Bland, fashion designer and activist[74]
Ian Caldwell, author[75]
Mark Changizi, theoretical cognitive scientist[76]
Mike Elias, baseball executive[77]
Mark Embree, mathematician and Rhodes Scholar[78][79]
Eric Froehlich, professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player[80]
Sara Goldrick-Rab, sociologist[81]
Stephanie Hannon, CTO of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016[82]
Darius Kazemi, programmer, artist, and co-founder of Feel Train[83]
Sophia Kianni, climate activist[84]
Andrew Kirmse, game developer and computer programmer[85]
Ehren Kruger, screenwriter[86]
Christo Landry, professional long-distance runner[87]
Howard Lerman, entrepreneur, co-founder of Yext[88]
Jose Llana, actor[89]
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, biological engineer, founder of Indigo Agriculture[90]
Mehret Mandefro, film/televesion producer, writer, physician, anthropologist[91]
Ashley Miller, screenwriter[92]
Kathryn Minshew, CEO and co-founder of The Muse[93]
Anthony Myint, restaurateur[94]
Aparna Nancherla, comedian[95][96]
Amna Nawaz, broadcast journalist[97]
Thao Nguyen, singer-songwriter[98]
Michael Hun Park, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[99]
Emma Pierson, computer scientist and Rhodes Scholar[100]
Conor Russomanno, creator of OpenBCI[101]
Robert Sarvis, lawyer[102]
Monika Schleier-Smith, experimental physicist and MacArthur Fellow (2020)[103]
Andrew Seliskar, swimmer[104]
Meagan Spooner, author[105]
Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire[106]
Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood[107]
Owen Thomas, journalist[108]
Dustin Thomason, author[109]
Anne Toth, Head of Data Policy at the World Economic Forum[110][111]
Greg Tseng, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Tagged[112]
Helen Wan, novelist and lawyer[113]
Staci Wilson, soccer player, olympian [114]

[Anonymous]

I'm a physician and one of my specialization areas is global health development and natural disaster management/recovery. I'm not famous and wouldn't make an internet list but wanted to do something where I could use my interest in human health and biology to make a large-scale, positive impact in the world and leverage funds to help countries develop their health system capabilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it shocking? These are kids attending a public school whose families likely don't come from exorbitantly rich backgrounds that allow them to take huge risks in their careers.

+1 Most of the tech execs/founders we celebrate came from money or UMC... Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it shocking? These are kids attending a public school whose families likely don't come from exorbitantly rich backgrounds that allow them to take huge risks in their careers.

+1 Most of the tech execs/founders we celebrate came from money or UMC... Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Add Sam Bankrun Fraud to that list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it shocking? These are kids attending a public school whose families likely don't come from exorbitantly rich backgrounds that allow them to take huge risks in their careers.

+1 Most of the tech execs/founders we celebrate came from money or UMC... Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Add Sam Bankrun Fraud to that list.

A coworker mentioned Bankman-Fried was an MIT alum, from a TJ-like school in the Bay area, is that so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it shocking? These are kids attending a public school whose families likely don't come from exorbitantly rich backgrounds that allow them to take huge risks in their careers.

+1 Most of the tech execs/founders we celebrate came from money or UMC... Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Add Sam Bankrun Fraud to that list.

A coworker mentioned Bankman-Fried was an MIT alum, from a TJ-like school in the Bay area, is that so?

never mind. answered my own question with google. It's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dave Grohl, and it isn't close.

He was pre-changeover. Scott "Wide Right" Norwood also.

[Anonymous]

It never ends…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it shocking? These are kids attending a public school whose families likely don't come from exorbitantly rich backgrounds that allow them to take huge risks in their careers.

+1 Most of the tech execs/founders we celebrate came from money or UMC... Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

Add Sam Bankrun Fraud to that list.

A coworker mentioned Bankman-Fried was an MIT alum, from a TJ-like school in the Bay area, is that so?

never mind. answered my own question with google. It's true.

SBF went to a private high school in the SF Bay Area. It wasn’t a public magnet like TJ. The closest public to TJ in SF is Lowell but that is not where he went.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dave Grohl, and it isn't close.

He went to BI. And I thought he dropped out to tour with Nirvana.