College Destinations for TJHSST Class of 2016

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Imagine grinding away at TJ and then going to....GMU. Full ride, no doubt, but still. A commuter school? Yikes!

How old are you? You had better inform all the international students and the resident students that they are going to a commuter school. Read and learn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a list. No wonder thought to be top school in America. DC area lucky to have a number of excellent high school options.
How many kids per class?

~450

Is that the complete list then?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a special TJ bonus ... college admissions offices (especially in Virginia) know about the school and respond accordingly, with admissions offers and financial aid. This is because TJ kids graduate with all honors academic courses (including extra mandatory humanities credits, not just STEM credits), plus about 5 AP classes that are part of the basic required curriculum, several more AP credits, post AP classes, and a major senior research project or mentorship.

I wonder if that means they know about the cheaters at the school?

No, they don't. If they did, the list will look nothing like OP posted. God knows there are many...

I know, right! 99% AP pass rate. Highest average SATs in the country. All those NMSFs and Intel semifinalists. National winners in every academic extracurricular you can think of. State athletic title winners. A student who is a finalist in swimming for the USA Olympic team. Just goes to show ismart kids to pull cheating off cheating on a massive scale. Haters gonna hate...

Just like cheaters will cheat...

That's quit a snappy response that really responds to the substance of the post. Kinda see why your kids did not get into TJ.

Not the PP. And certainly don't want to take away from the many accomplished students at TJ. The school has quite a collection of talented kids as the college list indicates.

That said, there is a cheating problem at TJ despite all that intelligence. Acing standardized tests and acing all the required academics are two different things. Whether the school is dealing with it or not there has been an unfortunate amount of cheating and plagiarizing at the school. And there have been TJ students kicked out of college for those same things. The pressure to succeed on paper is too great for some, apparently.

Is this "everyone knows"? "I think"? "I assume"? "I'm making random shit up"? Or do you have actually know something?

[Anonymous]

PP - on cheating, one hears the same things about various FCPS HS. Nowhere is there anything published by which to gauge the actual prevalence of such issues. And I am pretty sure that people, except maybe you, aren't keeping tabs of graduates of various schools, other than their own kids, to gossip about whether they succeed in college and if not, why they leave college. I am pretty sure other than rumors, which are worth about zero, nothing is published about why any Fcps graduate fails to succeed in a given college.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a list. No wonder thought to be top school in America. DC area lucky to have a number of excellent high school options.
How many kids per class?

~450

Is that the complete list then?

Yes.

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Are there really 17 kids from TJ going to Pitt next year? I assume they are getting generous scholarships.

Pitt is a good school, but the overall academic profile is more like Virginia Tech than MIT.

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Some people can't stand other kids are receiving great education and succeeding while their kids are not.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people can't stand other kids are receiving great education and succeeding while their kids are not.

The same ones that bristle whenever they see a car with a TJ sticker roll by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there really 17 kids from TJ going to Pitt next year? I assume they are getting generous scholarships.

Pitt is a good school, but the overall academic profile is more like Virginia Tech than MIT.

Does Pitt have generous merit aid program? 17 is unusually high since typically it was around 5-6 per year.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people can't stand other kids are receiving great education and succeeding while their kids are not.

+ 1. My kids could never have qualified for T.J. I'm happy it exists in FCPS and it works for the lucky ones.

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Whats with so many to Illinois? Are they one of the state schools trying to get out of staters and charge them three times as much?

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Illinois is ranked highly worldwide in CS, in engineering, and physics. It certainly doesn't have much of a reputation unless you are in academia.

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Anonymous wrote:Whats with so many to Illinois? Are they one of the state schools trying to get out of staters and charge them three times as much?

check the engineering ratings. One of the highest if not highest ranked schools of engineering. Makes sense for TJ grads to go to good engineering school.

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^ U.S. News has it at #5 for undergrad engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:^ U.S. News has it at #5 for undergrad engineering.

Which schools are rated number one for CS and engineering?