This bothers me..
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Anonymous
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https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202015-16%20online%20hq.pdf
---- In 2015, only 10 out of ~460 students got accepted in each of the following ivy universities ?.. I can bet, most of the 10 students who probably got accepted are same one's --- Columbia University 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 Yale University 10 University of California, Los Angeles 10 --- and more than half of the class of 2019 applied for in-state universities --- University of Virginia 191 College of William and Mary 181 Virginia Tech 155 Virginia Commonwealth University 84 -------- not much different from 2014, https://www.tjhsst.edu/abouttj/schoolprofile/docs/2014-15TJHSST%20Profile.pdf So, is TJ just any high school, just to brag about by parents ? ======= Are there similar statistics available for other high schools in FCPS ? |
Anonymous
Here is another depressing fact.. http://www.tjtoday.org/11340/opinion/university-of-virginia-admissions-procedure-hurts-jefferson-students/ |
Anonymous
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Weird that it bothers you. My kid is not going to TJ for college reasons. She is going to TJ because she loves math and science and wants to be surrounded by hard-working, academic minded peers.
We couldn't afford out of state and are not interested in her burdening herself with loans for that. Out in-state schools are great. College has gotten prohibitively expensive and people aren't going to really apply where they cannot afford to pay. |
Anonymous
| I'm sure TJ students would like for TJ to open up even more doors for them, but the TJ acceptances are far beyond what you'd see at any non-magnet public school in the DC area. If TJ students really think they'd fare better at their base school, they can give someone else their slots. |
Anonymous
NP here. IMO this should be the only reason a kid chooses to go to TJ. As a magnet school it was designed for students who want to go deeply into math and science and care more about learning for learning's sake. Amassing a really good resume for college can be and sometimes is a side benefit, but this shouldn't be the main reason a kid chooses to go there. |
Anonymous
Are you kidding me? 17- Berkley, 26- UNC Chapel Hill, 29- Cornell, 16- U. Of Chicago, 17- Duke...the list goes on and on, and you think that a base school can even compare? |
Anonymous
Holy crap - have any of you clicked on the PDF? No high school can compare to that. |
Anonymous
| To the original point about UVA, welcome to the wonderful world of quotas. |
Anonymous
The article did not list the schools that accepted number less than 10. They are top top schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, just names a few. |
Anonymous
The article did not list the schools that accepted number less than 10. They are top top schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, just names a few. |
Anonymous
| You did not click on the correct article (top one) https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202015-16%20online%20hq.pdf |
Anonymous
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TJ = UVA Humanities majors overwhelmingly
No correlation for TJ = math & science careers |
Anonymous
Yes, list does not show if college accepted less than 10. But, totally agree, you are insane if you think any other school in FCPS compares to this list of acceptances. Sure, you have a few here and there accepted to Ivys at the base school. But, damn. I would take a "disappointing" school like Cornell or Univ. of Chicago any day of the week. LOL |
Anonymous
?? For one high school to have 10 kids accepted at MIT is amazing. That's the highest number MIT accepted from any one high school. And that is down a bit from previous years. |
Anonymous
| OP - what is your base school. If you are so concerned about getting into Ivys and the bloated reputation of TJ, then you must know your base school's general college acceptances. Does it even compare? |