Best High Schools in America for Top Universities

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Anonymous wrote:Since when do people not consider top boarding schools "academic"?

I know what you mean. I think its actually more a reflection of DC area private schools not being particularly academic and then local people going on to incorrectly assume that of *all* privates.

"Exeter" appears to be very academic.

[Anonymous]

They only confuse Harvard Princeton and MIT??? This is so dumb. (It’s also a huge east coat bias by not using Stanford and/or caltech.) The problem is that by having such a small number there are a of weird swings and lack of differentiation. I pulled up my whole state and basically all the good schools had 2-3 admits to those 3 schools, so the difference between first in the state and 15th in the state was one kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They only confuse Harvard Princeton and MIT??? This is so dumb. (It’s also a huge east coat bias by not using Stanford and/or caltech.) The problem is that by having such a small number there are a of weird swings and lack of differentiation. I pulled up my whole state and basically all the good schools had 2-3 admits to those 3 schools, so the difference between first in the state and 15th in the state was one kid.

Also it would be nice to know how many of the Harvard and Princeton were athletic recruits.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheers for TJ. But these numbers are plain wrong. TJ has lots of great students and offers a fantastic STEM education. But, it's admission rates to the top colleges are only a couple percentage points better than the schools' overall admission rates.

In the class of 2018, 94 TJ students applied to Harvard, 10 were accepted for an admit rate of 11%. 89 students applied to MIT and 11 were accepted for a rate of 12%. 129 students applied to Princeton and 12 or 9% were accepted. (Source: https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf)

Did any school in the country do better than this? (I have seen some years when they got an even higher number admitted).

The point is that the "data" in the OP are bogus. I can name several DC schools with better admission rates to MIT, but they don't come close to having as large cohort of really strong engineers as TJ. Only a couple of students from those schools apply to MIT in any year, but at least one typically gets admitted (i.e. 1 admit a year out of 3-5 applicants). Those schools also have similar numbers of Harvard and Princeton admits as TJ, but with a small fraction of the number of TJ's applicants, so their admit rates fluctuate around 20-25% (4-5x the overall H/P admission rates). If you want to talk medians, the typical TJ grad goes to UVA or VTech while the typical grad from those other DC schools goes to an Ivy/Chicago/Williams.

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Dumb list OP. Obviously using only H P and MIT to juke the outcome. Include Yale and Stanford or this is worthless.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised there are boarding schools on this list, but they are more academic than people give them credit for. A lot of Harvard professors who live in Lexington same with Princeton high.

That used to be the case (and not just Harvard- many Universities in the area), but most profs are priced of out Lexington now.

The average full professor at Harvard makes 200,000 and often has additional income from consulting gigs. Also many have spouses that are lawyers and doctors.

https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-has-highest-paid-professors-2012-4

But that is the average FULL professor and there are more of the others. The others do not make that much.

[Anonymous]

TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

LOL! You need to google where all the young tech zillionaires went to high school. HINT: not magnet stem sweat shops

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb list OP. Obviously using only H P and MIT to juke the outcome. Include Yale and Stanford or this is worthless.

Stanford-yes but Yale has seen better days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

Feeling envious?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

LOL! You need to google where all the young tech zillionaires went to high school. HINT: not magnet stem sweat shops

I can see you foaming at the mouth. Be proud we have a great school in our back yard!

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I didn’t say TJ isn’t strong but it’s not better than a top private and it’s light years away from a good boarding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJHS is totally better than elite New England boarding schools!

Said nobody, ever. TJ tiger parents are so desperate and intense. Striver city.

For STEM it probably is better.

Yeah, connections and soft skills are totally overrated! Hope your kids enjoy being back office grinds.

Maybe you haven't heard, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan etc. for example are cutting thousand of Investment Banking division jobs (soft skills) while increasingly hiring more and more "Strats", "Quants" and "Quant Traders" for their front office divisions. Guess what these strats, quants and quant traders studied? That's right-math, CS, stat and physics!

You would be surprised how well poised and well-rounded these strats/quants are at these large IBs are these days. You should get out more.

Oh, same goes for big consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting etc. Guess which majors they hire more than history grad from Harvard or English major from Yale? Engineering majors, CS majors etc. from top 20 universities with high gpas. Just getting a degree in"easy" major from the Ivies are not cutting it anymore. Automation/AI is hitting these places big time. as well.