Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other TJ students going to college?

Usually there are 1or 2 going to West Point, Annapolis and other service academies, 1 or 2 to Oxford/Cambridge, 1 or 2 to European/Asian universities and several usually attend Illinois, Washington, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Purdue, RPI, NC, UMD.

So their bottom 1/3 attends universities the top 5% of regular high school kids attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other TJ students going to college?

Usually there are 1or 2 going to West Point, Annapolis and other service academies, 1 or 2 to Oxford/Cambridge, 1 or 2 to European/Asian universities and several usually attend Illinois, Washington, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Purdue, RPI, NC, UMD.

So their bottom 1/3 attends universities the top 5% of regular high school kids attend?

+1

[Anonymous]

Any data for this year for TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any data for this year for TJ?

Already know at least 6 kids who got into MIT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any data for this year for TJ?

Already know at least 6 kids who got into MIT

Thank you for sharing. I saw some instagram posting on another thread form privates and MCPS but didn't see if there are similar posting for TJ or FCPS high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other TJ students going to college?

Usually there are 1or 2 going to West Point, Annapolis and other service academies, 1 or 2 to Oxford/Cambridge, 1 or 2 to European/Asian universities and several usually attend Illinois, Washington, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Purdue, RPI, NC, UMD.

So their bottom 1/3 attends universities the top 5% of regular high school kids attend?

Are you this insufferable about everything?

[Anonymous]

What about Stanford and the ivies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Stanford and the ivies?

I am aware of 1 kid who got accepted into Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other TJ students going to college?

Usually there are 1or 2 going to West Point, Annapolis and other service academies, 1 or 2 to Oxford/Cambridge, 1 or 2 to European/Asian universities and several usually attend Illinois, Washington, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Purdue, RPI, NC, UMD.

So their bottom 1/3 attends universities the top 5% of regular high school kids attend?

Yes, this makes me wonder about the veracity of the popular narrative that these kids would have been better off if they had stayed at their home schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the other TJ students going to college?

Usually there are 1or 2 going to West Point, Annapolis and other service academies, 1 or 2 to Oxford/Cambridge, 1 or 2 to European/Asian universities and several usually attend Illinois, Washington, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Purdue, RPI, NC, UMD.

So their bottom 1/3 attends universities the top 5% of regular high school kids attend?

Yes, this makes me wonder about the veracity of the popular narrative that these kids would have been better off if they had stayed at their home schools.

I think that's one of the false narratives that some parents push in the hopes of creating waitlist movement.

[Anonymous]

It worth knowing if colleges are comparing TJ kids among only TJ kids, 1550 SAT might be in the mid or low range for TJ but high compared to FCPS high schools overall performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It worth knowing if colleges are comparing TJ kids among only TJ kids, 1550 SAT might be in the mid or low range for TJ but high compared to FCPS high schools overall performance.

Because of the opacity of college admissions, all conjecture below. But having looked at the trend of the admission results of last several years (bear in mind, not everyone reports), selective colleges compare TJ kids with other TJ kids (however, I don't think SAT counts for much. GPA definitely). At the same time, there is an increased soft quota allocated because it's TJ e.g. MIT will offer 10 places whereas in other FCPS schools, they'll offer 1-2 max if any.

The number of spots offered per college also seem to be relatively constant across several years e.g. college X will take 4, college Y will take 8 etc

And there are yet some other colleges that clearly like TJ perhaps based on previously yields from TJ or quality perceived from a TJ education based on past matriculated cohorts.

Just my opinion - nobody really knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Stanford and the ivies?

I am aware of 1 kid who got accepted into Harvard

I know three

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It worth knowing if colleges are comparing TJ kids among only TJ kids, 1550 SAT might be in the mid or low range for TJ but high compared to FCPS high schools overall performance.

Because of the opacity of college admissions, all conjecture below. But having looked at the trend of the admission results of last several years (bear in mind, not everyone reports), selective colleges compare TJ kids with other TJ kids (however, I don't think SAT counts for much. GPA definitely). At the same time, there is an increased soft quota allocated because it's TJ e.g. MIT will offer 10 places whereas in other FCPS schools, they'll offer 1-2 max if any.

The number of spots offered per college also seem to be relatively constant across several years e.g. college X will take 4, college Y will take 8 etc

And there are yet some other colleges that clearly like TJ perhaps based on previously yields from TJ or quality perceived from a TJ education based on past matriculated cohorts.

Just my opinion - nobody really knows.

All of that has been perceived as true since at least the early 2000s when I was a student there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It worth knowing if colleges are comparing TJ kids among only TJ kids, 1550 SAT might be in the mid or low range for TJ but high compared to FCPS high schools overall performance.

1550 is low range nowhere, not even TJ.

I believe average hovers just under 1500.