TJHSST Class of 2015 College Acceptance Data

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

UVA already goes over their ratio for NoVA students regularly too. The issue is that there are a lot of high achieving kids of high achieving parents in excellent schools here. And this is a huge metropolitan area. Fortunately there are a lot of other fantastic schools in the Commonwealth, with lower tuition since UVA receives less than 20% from the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

UVA already goes over their ratio for NoVA students regularly too. The issue is that there are a lot of high achieving kids of high achieving parents in excellent schools here. And this is a huge metropolitan area. Fortunately there are a lot of other fantastic schools in the Commonwealth, with lower tuition since UVA receives less than 20% from the state.

You're data is way outdated. Both Madison and Marshall had double digits going to UVA last year -- which I guess would put them both above Langley and McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

UVA already goes over their ratio for NoVA students regularly too. The issue is that there are a lot of high achieving kids of high achieving parents in excellent schools here. And this is a huge metropolitan area. Fortunately there are a lot of other fantastic schools in the Commonwealth, with lower tuition since UVA receives less than 20% from the state.

You're data is way outdated. Both Madison and Marshall had double digits going to UVA last year -- which I guess would put them both above Langley and McLean.

In Arlington last year, acceptances were...

H-B: 18 accepted, 50% acceptance rate
W-L: 37, 42%
Yorktown: 54, 39%
Wakefield: 8, 25%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

UVA already goes over their ratio for NoVA students regularly too. The issue is that there are a lot of high achieving kids of high achieving parents in excellent schools here. And this is a huge metropolitan area. Fortunately there are a lot of other fantastic schools in the Commonwealth, with lower tuition since UVA receives less than 20% from the state.

You're data is way outdated. Both Madison and Marshall had double digits going to UVA last year -- which I guess would put them both above Langley and McLean.

In Arlington last year, acceptances were...

H-B: 18 accepted, 50% acceptance rate
W-L: 37, 42%
Yorktown: 54, 39%
Wakefield: 8, 25%

Does this mean (if above numbers are correct) APS is better than FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

Your number is way off. You are probably confused with the numbers for Ivies. McLean sent 31 to UVA and 18 to William and Mary this year. The acceptance rate for UVA is about 40%. It's really not that hard to get in to GMU/JMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

Your number is way off. You are probably confused with the numbers for Ivies. McLean sent 31 to UVA and 18 to William and Mary this year. The acceptance rate for UVA is about 40%. It's really not that hard to get in to GMU/JMU.

So the numbers "31 to UVA" is the number of students who actually went to UVA, not including the ones that got accepted to UVA but chose to go elsewhere? Because I had heard that about 50 students usually get into UVA from Langley & McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

Your number is way off. You are probably confused with the numbers for Ivies. McLean sent 31 to UVA and 18 to William and Mary this year. The acceptance rate for UVA is about 40%. It's really not that hard to get in to GMU/JMU.

So the numbers "31 to UVA" is the number of students who actually went to UVA, not including the ones that got accepted to UVA but chose to go elsewhere? Because I had heard that about 50 students usually get into UVA from Langley & McLean.

50 acceptances to UVA from Langley or McLean seems high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

Your number is way off. You are probably confused with the numbers for Ivies. McLean sent 31 to UVA and 18 to William and Mary this year. The acceptance rate for UVA is about 40%. It's really not that hard to get in to GMU/JMU.

So the numbers "31 to UVA" is the number of students who actually went to UVA, not including the ones that got accepted to UVA but chose to go elsewhere? Because I had heard that about 50 students usually get into UVA from Langley & McLean.

Yes. Acceptance number for UVA is 50, and 47 for William and Mary.

[Anonymous]

There's this 2011 article that states that 50 seniors from Mclean HS were accepted to UVa and 36 attended. A little outdated...but I imagine not too much has changed.

http://patch.com/virginia/mclean/mclean-langley-graduates-excel-in-college-acceptances

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's this 2011 article that states that 50 seniors from Mclean HS were accepted to UVa and 36 attended. A little outdated...but I imagine not too much has changed.

http://patch.com/virginia/mclean/mclean-langley-graduates-excel-in-college-acceptances

So basically, this exhaustive thread tells us nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number for UVa really jumps out. Why do some people say there is a bias against applicants from nova with impressive numbers like this? Is it because it's such a crapshoot in terms of getting in there from other nova high schools?

Precisely. UVA takes mostly from TJ. Ten if a good year from Langley. 8 from McLean. Zero from others, etc. That's why you see posters coming on here complaining about how difficult it is to get into UVA from NoVA. There is simply no way Langley was going to support our son's application to UVA when they have 600 in the senior class and know only a few will get picked - hence it has now become very competitive for Va Tech and GMU. The VA parents need to send their kids somewhere they can afford. It's simply too difficult to get into UVA from NoVA so parents try W&M, Va Tech, GMU, JMU, etc.

Your number is way off. You are probably confused with the numbers for Ivies. McLean sent 31 to UVA and 18 to William and Mary this year. The acceptance rate for UVA is about 40%. It's really not that hard to get in to GMU/JMU.

So the numbers "31 to UVA" is the number of students who actually went to UVA, not including the ones that got accepted to UVA but chose to go elsewhere? Because I had heard that about 50 students usually get into UVA from Langley & McLean.

Yes. Acceptance number for UVA is 50, and 47 for William and Mary.

Then why is there so much complain about how much harder it is to get into UVA from Northern VA etc. if so many kids are being accepted from Northern Virginia schools?

[Anonymous]

Mostly parents of good students feeling that their kids shouldn't be shut out of a state supported school. It does feel crazy that an A student in Nova public school may not get into the state's flagship school. When I was in HS, UVa was not even close to being this hard to get into. But I suppose all the colleges have gotten harder to get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly parents of good students feeling that their kids shouldn't be shut out of a state supported school. It does feel crazy that an A student in Nova public school may not get into the state's flagship school. When I was in HS, UVa was not even close to being this hard to get into. But I suppose all the colleges have gotten harder to get in.

GMU/JMU/VCU are state supported schools.

[Anonymous]

Then why is there so much complain about how much harder it is to get into UVA from Northern VA

Again, from schools OTHER than TJ - - 50 at most, or 40 or a few dozen is NOT very many out of 580 seniors (of which virtually all are college bound)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Then why is there so much complain about how much harder it is to get into UVA from Northern VA

Again, from schools OTHER than TJ - - 50 at most, or 40 or a few dozen is NOT very many out of 580 seniors (of which virtually all are college bound)

Yes but there are W&M, VaTech, VCU, JMU, GMU and other schools in addition to UVA.