84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall

[Anonymous]

I think TJ's days are numbered. The people now associated with the school have more brains than class, and are just asking for the school to be converted to a community high school. The only purpose it serves is to give people bragging rights, and that's hardly a good enough reason to continue the school in its current form. Let's shut it down and give the networks in Korea a real story to cover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think TJ's days are numbered. The people now associated with the school have more brains than class, and are just asking for the school to be converted to a community high school. The only purpose it serves is to give people bragging rights, and that's hardly a good enough reason to continue the school in its current form. Let's shut it down and give the networks in Korea a real story to cover.

You wish Ha Ha. Keep dreaming.

[Anonymous]

I suspect e Student Services director may be looking for another job. Poor choice of words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:

Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3

Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6

This doesn't look like 2015 is better than 2014 as someone posted. I would think one of the measurement for sucess for a STEM school is the number of kids go to MIT, Cal Tech, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Definitely numbers to UVA doesn't mean a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:

Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3

Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6

This doesn't look like 2015 is better than 2014 as someone posted. I would think one of the measurement for sucess for a STEM school is the number of kids go to MIT, Cal Tech, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Definitely numbers to UVA doesn't mean a lot.

Sure they do. One of the best schools in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think TJ's days are numbered. The people now associated with the school have more brains than class, and are just asking for the school to be converted to a community high school. The only purpose it serves is to give people bragging rights, and that's hardly a good enough reason to continue the school in its current form. Let's shut it down and give the networks in Korea a real story to cover.

You wish Ha Ha. Keep dreaming.

Just wait. Moon won't be on the School Board forever to carry TJ's water.

[Anonymous]

That's pretty impressive. I think TJ will be strong for a while. I worry about people who push their kids to go there. Some people start pushing in third or fourth grade by prepping for AAP tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:

Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3

Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6

This doesn't look like 2015 is better than 2014 as someone posted. I would think one of the measurement for sucess for a STEM school is the number of kids go to MIT, Cal Tech, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Definitely numbers to UVA doesn't mean a lot.

Sure they do. One of the best schools in the country.

VA people are hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's pretty impressive. I think TJ will be strong for a while. I worry about people who push their kids to go there. Some people start pushing in third or fourth grade by prepping for AAP tests.

People pushed their kids before TJ and will push them long after TJ is gone, if it ever is.

TJ helps attract talent to the area, I'd be surprised if it were to close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you guys care?

Most of these kids will contribute to medical research, scientific research & application leading to creation of jobs, advance science & technology, improve US economic competitiveness, advance innovation in computer science, tackle difficult mathematical problems, create non-profits to engage in charitable activities, become teachers, contribute to emerging bio-medical engineering field etc. instead of go off to Wall Street or investment banks and come up with ways to scam ordinary citizens despite all the hostility and racism directed at them while attending TJ by ignorant fools in the community.

I meant like...why are people obsessively trying to figure out how many TJ-ers are going to each school? Of all the non-productive things on DCUM this is pretty close to the worse (maybe behind gossiping about the Kardashions on off-topic).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:

Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3

Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6

This doesn't look like 2015 is better than 2014 as someone posted. I would think one of the measurement for sucess for a STEM school is the number of kids go to MIT, Cal Tech, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Definitely numbers to UVA doesn't mean a lot.

Sure they do. One of the best schools in the country.

VA people are hilarious.

UVA is not a top tier STEM school, and it may not even be in the second tier. It has a good business school, but not in engineering and science. VA tech probably ranks higher in many of the STEM fields than UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:

Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3

Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6

This doesn't look like 2015 is better than 2014 as someone posted. I would think one of the measurement for sucess for a STEM school is the number of kids go to MIT, Cal Tech, GA Tech, Carnegie Mellon. Definitely numbers to UVA doesn't mean a lot.

Sure they do. One of the best schools in the country.

VA people are hilarious.

UVA is not a top tier STEM school, and it may not even be in the second tier. It has a good business school, but not in engineering and science. VA tech probably ranks higher in many of the STEM fields than UVA.

Dude, you forgot to drink the kool aid! Shhhhh...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's pretty impressive. I think TJ will be strong for a while. I worry about people who push their kids to go there. Some people start pushing in third or fourth grade by prepping for AAP tests.

People pushed their kids before TJ and will push them long after TJ is gone, if it ever is.

TJ helps attract talent to the area, I'd be surprised if it were to close.

It attracts some talent and repels other talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.

She may have had terrific SATs. If she were working, she may have been a first generation college student which gives additional points. Also, it depends on how recently this was. She certainly must have had very good grades. Was this before the grade inflation?

I don't know her SATs. She just finished her first year at Will/Mary (so she was admitted last spring). Not sure if her parents went to college. If they did, it was probably as a military person. She is AA. I didn't think about that when I was speaking to her mom, but I thought of it later and wondered if maybe there were "points" given for that. Seems odd that any kid who got into TJ would be rejected from Will/Mary or UVa while a kid who went to regular Va. HS with less than a 4.0 could get it. It would be great if my kids could get in (in several years), but I've heard so much about how competitive it is, I do not expect that they will. That's why I was so surprised that she got into so many schools with less than a 4.0+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.

She may have had terrific SATs. If she were working, she may have been a first generation college student which gives additional points. Also, it depends on how recently this was. She certainly must have had very good grades. Was this before the grade inflation?

I don't know her SATs. She just finished her first year at Will/Mary (so she was admitted last spring). Not sure if her parents went to college. If they did, it was probably as a military person. She is AA. I didn't think about that when I was speaking to her mom, but I thought of it later and wondered if maybe there were "points" given for that. Seems odd that any kid who got into TJ would be rejected from Will/Mary or UVa while a kid who went to regular Va. HS with less than a 4.0 could get it. It would be great if my kids could get in (in several years), but I've heard so much about how competitive it is, I do not expect that they will. That's why I was so surprised that she got into so many schools with less than a 4.0+.

Not sure what you are getting at.