TJ Class of 2025

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Anonymous wrote:I have no connection to TJ at all. None. It sure looks like an impressive list to me. There are plenty of kids going to top STEM schools, which is TJ’s focus, and they’re being smart in their choices. Purdue, Michigan, Maryland etc.

You’re also not taking into account the increased economic diversity in the school that I have to assume is one of the results of the new admissions policy. Kids with less money are more likely to take the money and run, presumably turning down higher ranked schools in the process. I see a kid going to VCU for its guaranteed medical school admissions program under a presidential scholarship for example — you have to assume he had other very good options.

I’m impressed with the kid who is going to Grinnell to play baseball and major in philosophy. That’s an interesting choice for a TJ grad!

The lesson here is to get out of your bubble. You don’t know the circumstances of any of these kids — nor do you know what schools they turned down or their reasons.

To be fair paying for college was always an issue at TJ. These are not kids from wealthy families, the parking lot was full of Honda not BMWs. Middle class and upper middle class families. Parents typically drew a paycheck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not impressive and definitely a change from previous years. A sampling from the print Senior edition of TJ Today:

UVA - 20
VT - 13
W&M - 14
GMU - 21

Georgetown - 8
Princeton - 4
Duke - 2
Chapel Hill - 1
Carnegie Mellon - 4
Penn - 4
Cornell - 5
MIT - 2
Harvard - 5
Chicago - 9
Purdue - 19
Michigan - 5
Stanford - 1

As usual, it was missing a huge number of entries.

It's low compared to the insta from last year

[Anonymous]

How did Mclean and Langley fare this year compared to TJ?

[Anonymous]

Some good but not great TJ students got into better colleges because of sports and URM. That’s also how they got in to TJ so the colleges are not selecting based on academic merit.

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Anonymous wrote:DD who goes to TJ was just talking about a HS friend who got into Penn, CMU and is going to Mason because $$. Where they are going isn’t only where they got in.

But why would she have applied to these other schools then? With GMU’s acceptance rate, it was a sure thing.

? That’s a dumb question. Obviously they were hoping they would get enough aid to make it possible.

The real question is if they could have achieved something even better at base.

Better than Penn or CMU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no connection to TJ at all. None. It sure looks like an impressive list to me. There are plenty of kids going to top STEM schools, which is TJ’s focus, and they’re being smart in their choices. Purdue, Michigan, Maryland etc.

You’re also not taking into account the increased economic diversity in the school that I have to assume is one of the results of the new admissions policy. Kids with less money are more likely to take the money and run, presumably turning down higher ranked schools in the process. I see a kid going to VCU for its guaranteed medical school admissions program under a presidential scholarship for example — you have to assume he had other very good options.

I’m impressed with the kid who is going to Grinnell to play baseball and major in philosophy. That’s an interesting choice for a TJ grad!

The lesson here is to get out of your bubble. You don’t know the circumstances of any of these kids — nor do you know what schools they turned down or their reasons.

To be fair paying for college was always an issue at TJ. These are not kids from wealthy families, the parking lot was full of Honda not BMWs. Middle class and upper middle class families. Parents typically drew a paycheck.

If you have enough money to buy your kid a car, even a Honda, then you’re doing ok.

The fact remains…there are significantly more kids at TJ now who come from lower-income families. And that is likely to shift college outcomes.