Naviance Data Seems Confusing and Discouraging

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools can only accept so many kids from TJ. This is why a kid can be accepted to UVA or VT from McLean High School but not from TJ with the exact same stats.

And this also is why for some students their geographic base school is a better choice than TJ.

Separately, sometimes people forget that a lot of TJ students are really targeting pre-med somewhere, and are not targeting a STEM field. M is for Math, not Medicine.

Um, what kind of undergrad degrees do you think most pre-med track students from TJ are getting? They aren’t flocking to the humanities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT is just protecting their yield. They lose all the top kids to T20 and UVA/U Mich who use VT as a backup to a backup.

And like clockwork, there you are. VT does not use yield protection at all. Sorry to disappoint.

"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

And I am also sure that when Duke says its supplemental essays are "optional" they are truly optional and you just write them for the heck of it

The stupidity!

[Anonymous]

UMD loves kids from TJ.

Wonderful school for CS, Eng, Physics and Math.