Partial List of College Acceptances for TJ Class of 2014

[Anonymous]

yeah, and they leave fewer spaces for other high-achieving high school students at UVA. 149 spots for one high school? Haven't we subsidized these genius children enough??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yeah, and they leave fewer spaces for other high-achieving high school students at UVA. 149 spots for one high school? Haven't we subsidized these genius children enough??

Actually it's about 190 to 200 per year. 149 is a from partial list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools.
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

This reasoning is completely idiotic. The reason the top 20% of TJ graduates don't compare to the top 20% of graduates at base schools is that the TJ graduates would have been conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school. Out of about 15000 FCPS seniors, 480 are from TJ. The top 20% of those number less than 100, i.e. 0.67% of the total.
These kids would have done just as well at their base school. I attended high school (not a magnet in any way) in another good school district elsewhere in the country and graduated 5th in a class of 500 kids. I applied to 6 of the traditionally top ten universities in the country, got accepted by five of them and waitlisted at one. The group of top ten nerds I hung out with probably racked 40 to 50 acceptances from a truly impressive list of schools.
The only thing TJ does is concentrate the list of acceptances at one school.

All 480 TJ class would be conservatively in the top 1% of their class at their base school? Really?

[Anonymous]

Statistically if TJ does draw the smartest kids you'd think more like top 4% - 480/15000

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Says the bottom 1%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

Yawn. TJ's days are numbered.

[Anonymous]

TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Applications keep dropping. The top 1% at a lot of schools wouldn't want to go to TJ.

Because they will be in the bottom 1% of the class.

Yawn. TJ's days are numbered.

Because your kid didn't make it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

drat. meant to say memorable high school experience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ has the best overall college acceptances. They are better than Exeter or Andover. So much for elite privates costing $50,000 per year.

True, but we decided there is more to a memorable high school acceptance than just college acceptances and in fact wanted to avoid the kids/parents who judge schools using this narrow focus.

drat. meant to say memorable high school experience

Like having memorable drinking, taking drugs and partying!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

No. TJ is 4 years of very advanced work that the other schools do not offer.