Anyone have the list of colleges TJ's class of 2019 is headed to?

[Anonymous]

Here is the link for class of 2018 if you want to get some idea:

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the link for class of 2018 if you want to get some idea:

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf

Unimpressive.

[Anonymous]

What about HSs like Chantilly, Oakton. Any destination data available for other FCPS HSs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the link for class of 2018 if you want to get some idea:

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf

Unimpressive.

You do you. But, it’s a STEM school, not a DC private. Beyond an 86% admission rate to WM, 57% to uVA (with 75% of the class applying), and 75% admission to VT (with a majority being engineering admits), the Purdue, Michigan, UICU, GT, UT Austin and especially Cornell, UCLA, Berkeley, CMU and MIT admissions are impressive. It’s a STEM school. These are the top 10-12 CS and engineering colleges in the country. If you have an engineering or CS kid, they want these schools— not Vandy, Emory, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Rice, Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke - 11
MIT - 3
Purdue - 2

MIT only 3? Not way.

[Anonymous]

So 10 kids got accepted to Harvard last year. Show me one school in this area that can match that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke - 11
MIT - 3
Purdue - 2

MIT only 3? Not way.

Purdue if way off as well. Lots of kids go to Purdue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, congrats and good luck to your daughter!

Curious from the tone of your post and just guessing - Did your daughter apply to TJ and not get in and you now want to find out if she got into a better school than her classmates who did get in to TJ? Or did your daughter not apply to TJ because your family believes that TJ kids are disadvantaged in college applications as they must compete with their classmates and you want to validate that decision?

I ask because I agree with all the prior posters that there is no way a teenager can't use social media or the high school grapevines to find out where her former friends are headed - just feels odd to post here.

Thank you, and thanks to the parents who actually answered my question, which I seriously regret asking since it didn't matter that much and evidently made some people go craaazyyy… (and no, a 2018 list wouldn't answer my question, but that's okay because we're moving on, given the insanity).

DD did apply to TJ but didn't get in. She was sad mostly because a few of her good friends were going and she doesn't like rejection anymore than the next gal, but in all honesty I'm not sure whether that would have been a good fit for her since she's good at science but not passionate about it, and ended up taking and enjoying a lot of classes that the TJ curriculum probably wouldn't have left time for. So it turned out fine for her in the end.
She sort of kept in touch with a couple of the friends who ended up at TJ through F and S years but by junior year it seems like text messages went unanswered.
Anyway, somehow one of the former friends came up in conversation this weekend and I said "maybe you'll see her again at UVA, since a huge number of TJ kids end up at UVA" and she replied that the odds of them running into each other at a huge school was pretty small even if they did end up there. And then I thought about posting here. That's about it. You'd think if I were keeping score, I would have asked this question back in April.

I don't know who DD knows who could track down the former friends, but even if she can track them down through common friends, don't you think it would be a little weird after two years of silence to suddenly ask "Tell me if so and so is going to UVA?" I don't think DD is that motivated to find out, and for all we know, so and so is going to Harvard.

I'm sure some people will read a nefarious motive in something I just wrote so I'll sign off, but as a reminder to the people going nuts that the college pedigree isn't determinative: we know a young family where the dad went to a state school that's regularly mocked on DCUM, and he makes a nice seven figure salary.

[Anonymous]

OP you’re a little weird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you’re a little weird

I didnt find the OP wierd but I did find your response wierd. It seems any thread about TJ turns into a twisted resentment-laden discussion on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Why don’t you know how to spell weird? Especially when you quoted someone who spelled it correctly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke - 11
MIT - 3
Purdue - 2

These are wayyy off. This year there are at least 7 heading to MIT (another 4 declined the admission), 15 to Harvard and 4 to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke - 11
MIT - 3
Purdue - 2

These are wayyy off. This year there are at least 7 heading to MIT (another 4 declined the admission), 15 to Harvard and 4 to Princeton.

And 5 to Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First, congrats and good luck to your daughter!

Curious from the tone of your post and just guessing - Did your daughter apply to TJ and not get in and you now want to find out if she got into a better school than her classmates who did get in to TJ? Or did your daughter not apply to TJ because your family believes that TJ kids are disadvantaged in college applications as they must compete with their classmates and you want to validate that decision?

I ask because I agree with all the prior posters that there is no way a teenager can't use social media or the high school grapevines to find out where her former friends are headed - just feels odd to post here.

Thank you, and thanks to the parents who actually answered my question, which I seriously regret asking since it didn't matter that much and evidently made some people go craaazyyy… (and no, a 2018 list wouldn't answer my question, but that's okay because we're moving on, given the insanity).

DD did apply to TJ but didn't get in. She was sad mostly because a few of her good friends were going and she doesn't like rejection anymore than the next gal, but in all honesty I'm not sure whether that would have been a good fit for her since she's good at science but not passionate about it, and ended up taking and enjoying a lot of classes that the TJ curriculum probably wouldn't have left time for. So it turned out fine for her in the end.
She sort of kept in touch with a couple of the friends who ended up at TJ through F and S years but by junior year it seems like text messages went unanswered.
Anyway, somehow one of the former friends came up in conversation this weekend and I said "maybe you'll see her again at UVA, since a huge number of TJ kids end up at UVA" and she replied that the odds of them running into each other at a huge school was pretty small even if they did end up there. And then I thought about posting here. That's about it. You'd think if I were keeping score, I would have asked this question back in April.

I don't know who DD knows who could track down the former friends, but even if she can track them down through common friends, don't you think it would be a little weird after two years of silence to suddenly ask "Tell me if so and so is going to UVA?" I don't think DD is that motivated to find out, and for all we know, so and so is going to Harvard.

I'm sure some people will read a nefarious motive in something I just wrote so I'll sign off, but as a reminder to the people going nuts that the college pedigree isn't determinative: we know a young family where the dad went to a state school that's regularly mocked on DCUM, and he makes a nice seven figure salary.

Even if the text messages went unanswered in the past, why couldn't DD send a note to the former friends she is wondering about... "Hey, been thinking about you as we approach graduation! I'm off to UVA in the fall! Where are you headed?" Worst case they don't respond. Best case they respond - and it's most likely something like "Hey! I'm going to UVA too! Maybe we can connect on grounds" or "Awesome! Congratulations. I'm off to MIT but remember Larla Smith? She's going to UVA, maybe you'll see here there."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First, congrats and good luck to your daughter!

Curious from the tone of your post and just guessing - Did your daughter apply to TJ and not get in and you now want to find out if she got into a better school than her classmates who did get in to TJ? Or did your daughter not apply to TJ because your family believes that TJ kids are disadvantaged in college applications as they must compete with their classmates and you want to validate that decision?

I ask because I agree with all the prior posters that there is no way a teenager can't use social media or the high school grapevines to find out where her former friends are headed - just feels odd to post here.

Thank you, and thanks to the parents who actually answered my question, which I seriously regret asking since it didn't matter that much and evidently made some people go craaazyyy… (and no, a 2018 list wouldn't answer my question, but that's okay because we're moving on, given the insanity).

DD did apply to TJ but didn't get in. She was sad mostly because a few of her good friends were going and she doesn't like rejection anymore than the next gal, but in all honesty I'm not sure whether that would have been a good fit for her since she's good at science but not passionate about it, and ended up taking and enjoying a lot of classes that the TJ curriculum probably wouldn't have left time for. So it turned out fine for her in the end.
She sort of kept in touch with a couple of the friends who ended up at TJ through F and S years but by junior year it seems like text messages went unanswered.
Anyway, somehow one of the former friends came up in conversation this weekend and I said "maybe you'll see her again at UVA, since a huge number of TJ kids end up at UVA" and she replied that the odds of them running into each other at a huge school was pretty small even if they did end up there. And then I thought about posting here. That's about it. You'd think if I were keeping score, I would have asked this question back in April.

I don't know who DD knows who could track down the former friends, but even if she can track them down through common friends, don't you think it would be a little weird after two years of silence to suddenly ask "Tell me if so and so is going to UVA?" I don't think DD is that motivated to find out, and for all we know, so and so is going to Harvard.

I'm sure some people will read a nefarious motive in something I just wrote so I'll sign off, but as a reminder to the people going nuts that the college pedigree isn't determinative: we know a young family where the dad went to a state school that's regularly mocked on DCUM, and he makes a nice seven figure salary.

Even if the text messages went unanswered in the past, why couldn't DD send a note to the former friends she is wondering about... "Hey, been thinking about you as we approach graduation! I'm off to UVA in the fall! Where are you headed?" Worst case they don't respond. Best case they respond - and it's most likely something like "Hey! I'm going to UVA too! Maybe we can connect on grounds" or "Awesome! Congratulations. I'm off to MIT but remember Larla Smith? She's going to UVA, maybe you'll see here there."

Awesome they could meet up at U Diner for a fried doughnut...