Should TJ student transfer?
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Anonymous
I have been through the process a few times now. I definitely see there is a way into the top schools. But not with poor grades… |
Anonymous
I thought she’s referring to TJ’s data specifically? |
Anonymous
But the tippy top students at TJ or Blair magnet have a good chance. |
Anonymous
They have a good chance but it's a tiny group who have been programmed for MIT since elementary school. These schools are a repeat of TJ for another four years which most students don't want and that's perfectly fine. |
Anonymous
Do you even have access to the TJ naviance? It really seems like you do not. The Naviance scattergram shows 12 students applied to Harvard with an SAT score 1570 or higher and a GPA of 4.63 or higher. 5 were accepted. 5/12=0.416 or ~41% The Naviance scattergram also shows 6 applicants with an ACT score of 35 (the average ACT score of accepted applicants from TJ) and a GPA of 4.59 or higher (the average GPA of TJ students that took the SAT and were accepted to Harvard). But that student looks like they also submitted an SAT score. So we conservatively assume that none of the rejects from the ACT chart were also on the SAT chart and expand the SAT denominator by 5 so it is 5/17 or 0.294 So more than 25% of the TJ applicants to harvard with a 1570 or better and a GPA higher than 4.6 get accepted. |
Anonymous
What kind of bullshit semantic pettifoggery is this? We routinely say things like "A" student has a 5% chance of admission to harvard without knowing anything specific about them. This simply narrows the pool under consideration to those who exceed the average GPA and average SAT score. NOBODY said that a 1570 SAT and 4.6 GPA is all you need to get into Harvard. Only a nitwit would interpret what I wrote to mean that. |
Anonymous
It really depends on what you mean by top school. Is UVA a "top school?" |
Anonymous
Getting into MIT is like winning a pi eating contest where the prize is 4 more years of pi. |
Anonymous
Aren’t you a peach. Write clearer. Exact quote: If your GPA is above 4.6 and your SAT is 1570 or higher, you've got pretty close to a 25% chance at Harvard from TJ |
Anonymous
What does this have to do with anything? That PP shared that, according to TJ’s data, if you have a 4.6 GPA there plus 1570 SAT, then your chance of getting into Harvard is x% (a lot higher than the general population), which I believe. And I further made the point that a typical tippy top TJ kid has a good chance of getting into MIT. The same can absolutely NOT be said about my son’s half-a$$ed private high school. |
Anonymous
Again, not PP. But you obvious have a reading comprehension problem. |
Anonymous
Either that or they really thought I was trying to say that Harvard admits students based on GPA, SATs and RNG. |
Anonymous
| Switching schools to chase a more prestigious college outcome is ill-advised imo. While there are certainly some cautionary tales of bottom 25% kids at TJ not getting great outcomes, part of the issue is a lack of strategy. If your kid is high SAT and in the bottom 25%, DO NOT apply to schools that 100+ other TJ kids apply to. When AOs look at apps, they do so against the context of others at the school. The TJ Naviance will give you some good ideas on the volume of apps historically from TJ. Avoid the high volume ones and you should still get a decent outcome. |
Anonymous
Omg NO. It doesn’t mean over 25% of TJ applicants to Harvard with a 4.6+ and a 1570 or better get accepted. It means approximately 30% of these particular kids who applied got in. There is no clue about awards, hooks, ecs, letters of recs, essays, etc. You can’t make a general conclusion about anything based on Naviance data. 🙄 |
Anonymous
Omg are you this tedious in real life. Everyone knows what she means. Everyone knows what she means. You've been nitpicking someone offering semi useful information without providing anything of value yourself. |