Students do not start TJ with a mindset 'OMG, I have to get into UVA.' UVA in not on their radar. |
This has never been true. |
This is true. UVA and VT do not care about the rigor of TJ, they only care about higher GPA. So if UVA or VT is your 1st choice, don't come to TJ, stay at your base school and get unweighted 4.0 GPA. So many high performing kids from TJ were rejected outright at UVA and VT last year because of their unweighted GPA that is not 4.0. |
You do know only a handful of TJ kids graduate with 4.0 unweighted GPAs. You sound like a UVA booster wannabe. |
Literally no part of this post is true. Here's the reality of the relationship between TJ and UVA: Back in the earlier days of TJ, it was a reasonable expectation of most kids that they could rely on getting into UVA as long as they were somewhat successful in high school and didn't have any glaring red flags on their transcript - like a B- or a C in a full-year class or a complete lack of any AP heft. There were years when TJ sent over 130 students to UVA in one class of less than 400 graduates. As years went by, that began to change because 1) UVA, like most schools, started receiving more and more applications from higher caliber of students and 2) UVA has always valued well-roundedness in its applicants and under the leadership of Dr. Glazer, TJ students by design became significantly less well-rounded and therefore less interesting to UVA. That's when you started to see TJ kids with objectively strong but fairly one-dimensional resumes getting turned down while students with perhaps lesser GPAs and board scores - even of the same demographic - would be admitted. Nowadays, it is a significant accomplishment for a TJ student to get into UVA, not because UVA has changed for the better, but because for many years TJ changed for the worse. |
This is 100% true. You could comfortably fit the number of TJ students who graduate with unweighted 4.0s year over year in a classroom. |
I know of a TJ kid from last year with 3.8/4.3 uw/w GPA rejected by UVA and VT. Kid has impressive ECs and top rigor math tracks. A base school kid with 4.0 uw GPA is more successful in college admissions. |
That profile should not have gotten them turned down at VT. Suggests there was a significant problem in the application. Might have been bland writing components. |
Historically, VT has not been that big of a TJ destination. |
That's so false. That's all most of them talk about. |
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the students at our flagship Universities are just a cut above a county HS. |
Many TJ parents would be well served if they were able to grasp this truth. |
Every since the admissions test was eliminated, riqor was bound to come down.
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You can't add medians like that. Consider three students with the following scores: 800, 800 (1600) 750, 500 (1250 500, 750 (1250) What is the median math score? The median English score? Their sum? And lastly, what's the median total score? |
You cannot compare the no. 1 ranked high school in the country with a university not even in the top 20.
Why would MIT grad dream of going on to grad school in CS at UVA? Non-sense. In-state tuition is the only thing attracting few TJ kids who do apply. Getting really sick of UVA non-sense from all the UVA morons. All they know how to do is attack other schools and mock them so immature and insecure bunch of aholes. |