TJ Class of 2017 College Destination List

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Many donut hole families don't apply. THEY DO NOT EVEN APPLY. Even if their kids are qualified to attend elite schools.

When will DCUM understand that application and admissions to elite schools is not shorthand for how qualified a given student is?

First 70-110 is a decent sized group

Secondly and more importantly the sample size doesn't matter. I'm talking about the ACCEPTANCE RATE which is AVERAGE and jibes across the whole freaking USA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

Also, roughly 1/3 of TJ's grads applied to Cornell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.

My kid doesn't go to TJ and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think that what your missing is that kids in the middle of the pack at TJ are going to incredibly good schools.

That is a total of 269 kids from the class enrolled at one of those schools. I think that is incredibly impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

Also, roughly 1/3 of TJ's grads applied to Cornell.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ grads were rejected by UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

Also, roughly 1/3 of TJ's grads applied to Cornell.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ grads were rejected by UVA.

Looks like a TJ grad has a 56% chance of getting accepted by UVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No Georgetown?

Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)

Do you have Pomona, Bowdoin, Mudd, and Claremont McKenna?

Bowdoin (2 applied, 0 accepted)
Claremont McKenna (2 applied, 1 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Pomona (7 applied, 0 accepted)
Harvey Mudd (11 applied, 4 accepted, 2 enrolled)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

Also, roughly 1/3 of TJ's grads applied to Cornell.

And almost as many applied to Michigan, Stanford and UPenn and 25% applied to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Statistically, Northwestern was harder to get in than any of the Ivy's or Stanford. Northwestern University doesn't seem to like TJ grads maybe b/c even when accepted they don't choose to enroll. Here are the #s:

Northwestern (46 applied, 1 accepted and 0 enrolled). In 2016, 56 applied, 4 accepted and 1 enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Statistically, Northwestern was harder to get in than any of the Ivy's or Stanford. Northwestern University doesn't seem to like TJ grads maybe b/c even when accepted they don't choose to enroll. Here are the #s:

Northwestern (46 applied, 1 accepted and 0 enrolled). In 2016, 56 applied, 4 accepted and 1 enrolled.

Wow! I imagine they know these gunner kids are shotgun blasting apps to all the top 20 colleges. Unless you've visited and have deep engagement with NU, they're not going to accept DC-area kids who just want to brag about acceptance letters on snapchat and facebook.

I'd bet the few accepted kids are legacies or in the summer talent search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Statistically, Northwestern was harder to get in than any of the Ivy's or Stanford. Northwestern University doesn't seem to like TJ grads maybe b/c even when accepted they don't choose to enroll. Here are the #s:

Northwestern (46 applied, 1 accepted and 0 enrolled). In 2016, 56 applied, 4 accepted and 1 enrolled.

Schools like Northwestern and Wash U track demonstrated interest and don't like to accept lots of kids they know likely won't attend and thus hurting their yield numbers. If applicants from TJ rarely enroll at Northwestern, why should the school accept them? Also, it's likely that the top 1/4 of TJ's class is not applying to Northwestern and it's the middle to bottom of the class that is applying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Many donut hole families don't apply. THEY DO NOT EVEN APPLY. Even if their kids are qualified to attend elite schools.

When will DCUM understand that application and admissions to elite schools is not shorthand for how qualified a given student is?

First 70-110 is a decent sized group

Secondly and more importantly the sample size doesn't matter. I'm talking about the ACCEPTANCE RATE which is AVERAGE and jibes across the whole freaking USA

...because you can only be ACCEPTED if you APPLY. So yes, the ACCEPTANCE RATE is AVERAGE because the population includes a lot of students from donut hole families WHO DO NOT EVEN APPLY TO ELITES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

Roughly 1/3 of TJ's graduating class is staying in state at UVA, VaTech and William & Mary.

Similar to Blair, where about half of each magnet class goes to UMD-CP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Many donut hole families don't apply. THEY DO NOT EVEN APPLY. Even if their kids are qualified to attend elite schools.

When will DCUM understand that application and admissions to elite schools is not shorthand for how qualified a given student is?

First 70-110 is a decent sized group

Secondly and more importantly the sample size doesn't matter. I'm talking about the ACCEPTANCE RATE which is AVERAGE and jibes across the whole freaking USA

...because you can only be ACCEPTED if you APPLY. So yes, the ACCEPTANCE RATE is AVERAGE because the population includes a lot of students from donut hole families WHO DO NOT EVEN APPLY TO ELITES.

OMG are you really this dense the acceptance % irregardless of the raw numbers should be high jeez try and keep up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Many donut hole families don't apply. THEY DO NOT EVEN APPLY. Even if their kids are qualified to attend elite schools.

When will DCUM understand that application and admissions to elite schools is not shorthand for how qualified a given student is?

First 70-110 is a decent sized group

Secondly and more importantly the sample size doesn't matter. I'm talking about the ACCEPTANCE RATE which is AVERAGE and jibes across the whole freaking USA

...because you can only be ACCEPTED if you APPLY. So yes, the ACCEPTANCE RATE is AVERAGE because the population includes a lot of students from donut hole families WHO DO NOT EVEN APPLY TO ELITES.

OMG are you really this dense the acceptance % irregardless of the raw numbers should be high jeez try and keep up

I give up.