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

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Everyone applying to TJ knows that if getting into a top college is your number one priority, you may well be better off at your base school. The kids talk about this and accept it. Go to TJ because of the courses and the cohorts - take advantage of all that and you will be very glad you made that choice. - Parent of an average TJ student

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone applying to TJ knows that if getting into a top college is your number one priority, you may well be better off at your base school. The kids talk about this and accept it. Go to TJ because of the courses and the cohorts - take advantage of all that and you will be very glad you made that choice. - Parent of an average TJ student

Amen. Parent of a middle of the pack TJ kid who is very pleased with her kids match and even safety college options. And the one 2/3 of tuition merit offer (formal, in writing) he already got from one of the 3 safeties based on SATs and interview, before the application ever goes in. And I expect the second— Pitt— to look equally good when we hear in a month or two (app already in) If these school with these merit package is my kids best options, he’ll be fine. With a number of promising matches and a reach he will never get into upstanding. He also would have been fine for the base school. But the safeties are actively recruiting TJ in STEM.

Also, he loved TJ, especially one he could do more advanced electives junior year, met a lot of kids like him, got an amazing education, and will easily handle any academics any college he gets into can throw at him.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone applying to TJ knows that if getting into a top college is your number one priority, you may well be better off at your base school. The kids talk about this and accept it. Go to TJ because of the courses and the cohorts - take advantage of all that and you will be very glad you made that choice. - Parent of an average TJ student

I've heard it said that TJ grads have the highest cohort GPAs at schools like W&M and UVA. Can't verify that. If so, it could be because the kids are smart, but it could be that they are better prepared for the college academic environment than their counterparts from other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone applying to TJ knows that if getting into a top college is your number one priority, you may well be better off at your base school. The kids talk about this and accept it. Go to TJ because of the courses and the cohorts - take advantage of all that and you will be very glad you made that choice. - Parent of an average TJ student

Amen. Parent of a middle of the pack TJ kid who is very pleased with her kids match and even safety college options. And the one 2/3 of tuition merit offer (formal, in writing) he already got from one of the 3 safeties based on SATs and interview, before the application ever goes in. And I expect the second— Pitt— to look equally good when we hear in a month or two (app already in) If these school with these merit package is my kids best options, he’ll be fine. With a number of promising matches and a reach he will never get into upstanding. He also would have been fine for the base school. But the safeties are actively recruiting TJ in STEM.

Also, he loved TJ, especially one he could do more advanced electives junior year, met a lot of kids like him, got an amazing education, and will easily handle any academics any college he gets into can throw at him.

Pitt. LOL!

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Where did your kid have a 2/3 merit offer before applications even opened?

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I've heard it said that TJ grads have the highest cohort GPAs at schools like W&M and UVA. Can't verify that. If so, it could be because the kids are smart, but it could be that they are better prepared for the college academic environment than their counterparts from other schools.

I don't know about GPAs of the cohort - some students go awry in college.
In the college selection process (2019), my child spoke with multiple TJ alumni at the various colleges she was applying to. FWIW here's a snapshot:

1. All but CMU (SCS), Princeton and MIT thought TJ was harder.

2. UVA said Engineering/CS was "easy" and did not require a lot of effort. My child liked UVA because of this; did not want another 4 years of "TJ"

3. All said that TJ (good memories or not) prepped them because students have to do a lot by themselves: overcome some admittedly mediocre instruction at TJ, study extra material, read textbooks cover-to-cover, schedule classes, advocate for themselves on grading, independent research, hunt for internships, self-start on everything i.e. everything you'd do in college.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have to agree that I believe college will be very easy after what my DC has done at TJ. The expectations on their work, the rigor, the time management really are hard for anyone to believe unless your DC has attended.

I do think that it is much harder for the superior stem kids to stand out at TJ because there are just so many amazing kids.

But when looking at the college list what's really the most impressive to me is what colleges are not on the list. Every school on there is a good school. Even the kids toward the bottom of the class are going to great colleges. No random colleges or community colleges I've never heard of.

Like every other HS, the vast majority go to match schools, the very top go to reach schools.

TJ has the best college acceptances and merit based scholarships of all the public high schools in the country.

Source?

NP. Start with Polaris List. Best admissions results public or private.

https://www.polarislist.com/

Well this is only for 2015-2017 and only included 3 schools

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Anonymous wrote:I would have to agree that I believe college will be very easy after what my DC has done at TJ. The expectations on their work, the rigor, the time management really are hard for anyone to believe unless your DC has attended.

I do think that it is much harder for the superior stem kids to stand out at TJ because there are just so many amazing kids.

But when looking at the college list what's really the most impressive to me is what colleges are not on the list. Every school on there is a good school. Even the kids toward the bottom of the class are going to great colleges. No random colleges or community colleges I've never heard of.

Like every other HS, the vast majority go to match schools, the very top go to reach schools.

TJ has the best college acceptances and merit based scholarships of all the public high schools in the country.

So?

Source?

NP. Start with Polaris List. Best admissions results public or private.

https://www.polarislist.com/

Well this is only for 2015-2017 and only included 3 schools

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Anonymous wrote:I would have to agree that I believe college will be very easy after what my DC has done at TJ. The expectations on their work, the rigor, the time management really are hard for anyone to believe unless your DC has attended.

I do think that it is much harder for the superior stem kids to stand out at TJ because there are just so many amazing kids.

But when looking at the college list what's really the most impressive to me is what colleges are not on the list. Every school on there is a good school. Even the kids toward the bottom of the class are going to great colleges. No random colleges or community colleges I've never heard of.

Like every other HS, the vast majority go to match schools, the very top go to reach schools.

TJ has the best college acceptances and merit based scholarships of all the public high schools in the country.

Source?

NP. Start with Polaris List. Best admissions results public or private.

https://www.polarislist.com/

Well this is only for 2015-2017 and only included 3 schools

Of course TJ is good. Basically they take about 1/2 of the top 8% of the county. That is why it does so well.

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Anonymous wrote:Where did your kid have a 2/3 merit offer before applications even opened?

It’s an usual for TJ choice but a great safety for this kid. I don’t want to out the kid. They may well be the only kid from their class to apply.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone applying to TJ knows that if getting into a top college is your number one priority, you may well be better off at your base school. The kids talk about this and accept it. Go to TJ because of the courses and the cohorts - take advantage of all that and you will be very glad you made that choice. - Parent of an average TJ student

Amen. Parent of a middle of the pack TJ kid who is very pleased with her kids match and even safety college options. And the one 2/3 of tuition merit offer (formal, in writing) he already got from one of the 3 safeties based on SATs and interview, before the application ever goes in. And I expect the second— Pitt— to look equally good when we hear in a month or two (app already in) If these school with these merit package is my kids best options, he’ll be fine. With a number of promising matches and a reach he will never get into upstanding. He also would have been fine for the base school. But the safeties are actively recruiting TJ in STEM.

Also, he loved TJ, especially one he could do more advanced electives junior year, met a lot of kids like him, got an amazing education, and will easily handle any academics any college he gets into can throw at him.

Pitt. LOL!

Why is Pitt an LOL? Last year more TJ applied and attended than VT. It has a great reputation and is making an upward move and buying talent right now. And the point of the two safeties is to have two options locked in early that he would be okay attending, will absolutely get into and can easily pay for. And it happens to be great in his area of interest— works in conjunction with the Carnegie Museum and offers great opportunities. It is not MIT or Michigan. It’s a safety.

Now, he can relax a little and work through the other 7 or so schools on his list—a low match, 4 matches, two high matches and maybe a reach. But merit money will help drove this decision.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have to agree that I believe college will be very easy after what my DC has done at TJ. The expectations on their work, the rigor, the time management really are hard for anyone to believe unless your DC has attended.

I do think that it is much harder for the superior stem kids to stand out at TJ because there are just so many amazing kids.

But when looking at the college list what's really the most impressive to me is what colleges are not on the list. Every school on there is a good school. Even the kids toward the bottom of the class are going to great colleges. No random colleges or community colleges I've never heard of.

Like every other HS, the vast majority go to match schools, the very top go to reach schools.

TJ has the best college acceptances and merit based scholarships of all the public high schools in the country.

Source?

NP. Start with Polaris List. Best admissions results public or private.

https://www.polarislist.com/

Well this is only for 2015-2017 and only included 3 schools

Of course TJ is good. Basically they take about 1/2 of the top 8% of the county. That is why it does so well.

Cut that in 1/2. They only take 2/3 FCPS kids because it’s a regional governors school. It ends up being about 2% of HS grads.

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I went to a very selective college that takes a lot of kids from TJ.

The kids from TJ (And from Stuy and Bronx Science) were very well prepared because they already knew what it was like to be challenged and to be a small fish in a big pond.

One funny thing all my friends from TJ (and Stuy, etc.) told me was that they felt they had SO much more time in college, actually, because they didn't have to have a really long commute to and from school.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a very selective college that takes a lot of kids from TJ.

The kids from TJ (And from Stuy and Bronx Science) were very well prepared because they already knew what it was like to be challenged and to be a small fish in a big pond.

One funny thing all my friends from TJ (and Stuy, etc.) told me was that they felt they had SO much more time in college, actually, because they didn't have to have a really long commute to and from school.

This is funny because guidance counselors actually collect commute time from the kids to put in the schools college recommendations to give context to the time pressures. Lots of freshmen like the bus ride because it’s downtime (mine has about 45 minutes each way from the depot, but an hour when you factor the depot in). Most juniors hate it, because they can no longer afford downtime.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a very selective college that takes a lot of kids from TJ.

The kids from TJ (And from Stuy and Bronx Science) were very well prepared because they already knew what it was like to be challenged and to be a small fish in a big pond.

One funny thing all my friends from TJ (and Stuy, etc.) told me was that they felt they had SO much more time in college, actually, because they didn't have to have a really long commute to and from school.

I think all kids find they have way more time in college. It’s not just the commute; it’s the fact that you only have 3-4 hours of class a day!