College Destinations for TJHSST Class of 2016

[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.

Pitt is a research powerhouse. And, since you mention it with Pitt ranked #133 in the world university rankings, it is closer to MIT (#1), than to VT (#338)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Pitt is a research powerhouse. And, since you mention it with Pitt ranked #133 in the world university rankings, it is closer to MIT (#1), than to VT (#338)

DC, who wouldn't have survived two minutes at TJ, received a decent aid offer from PITT. So I have to guess that, yes, aid was a factor in the PITT matriculations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Which schools are rated number one for CS and engineering?

The top tier is made up of MIT, Stanford, Berkeley & Caltech.

[Anonymous]

Illinois is ranked 36 at world ranking and 29 at Shanghai ranking.

[Anonymous]

Overall really great list. Lots of different kinds of schools which goes to show that TJ is not just some conformist STEM factory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overall really great list. Lots of different kinds of schools which goes to show that TJ is not just some conformist STEM factory.

not sure I agree. 13 to MIT and 1 to Willaims? Not much interest shown by these kids in attending any of the the SLACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Overall really great list. Lots of different kinds of schools which goes to show that TJ is not just some conformist STEM factory.

not sure I agree. 13 to MIT and 1 to Willaims? Not much interest shown by these kids in attending any of the the SLACs.

In addition to Williams:

Harvard (6)
Yale (7)
Princeton (6)
Stanford: (7)
U Chicago (13)
UC Berkeley (12)
Columbia (9)
Penn (7)
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Duke (8)
Dartmouth (4)
Brown (3)
Cornell (8)
Northwestern U (1)
Williams College (1)
US Air Force Academy (1)
US Coast Guard Academy (1)
NYU (6)
Georgetown (5)
Swarthmore (3)
Vanderbilt (3)
Washington U in St. Louis (1)
UCLA (1)
University of Michigan (11)
University of Virginia (81)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (12)
College of William & Mary (32)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)
USC (3)
Purdue (8)
Notre Dame (1)
Bowdoin College (1)
Indiana University at Bloomington (1)
Babson (1)
Wellesley (1)
Rice University (5)
George Washington University (4)
University of Maryland College Park (4)
University of Texas Austin (1)
Colby Collge (1)
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (1)
Penn State University (4)
Syracuse University (1)
North Carolina State University (1)
University of Pittsburgh (17)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (1)
University of Miami (1)
Northeastern University (1)
Rutgers University (3)
Case Western Reserve University (5)
University of Colorado Boulder (2)
Ohio State (2)
Arizona State University (1)
University of Delaware (1)
Oregon State University 1)
Reed College (1)
JMU (3)
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (1)
VCU (8)
Houghton College (1)
GMU (11)
University of Richmond (1)
Washington and Lee (1)
University of Oklahoma (1)
McGill University (1)
University of St Andrews (1)

[Anonymous]

^ Yes, please. Post the entire list again.

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

So, not going to TJ = getting a subpar education and not succeeding? Maybe I should have set my DD out to pasture when she got a mediocre score on the IAAT in 6th grade.

I think the TJ list is quite impressive with only one or two head scratchers (little puzzled about Oklahoma).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Overall really great list. Lots of different kinds of schools which goes to show that TJ is not just some conformist STEM factory.

not sure I agree. 13 to MIT and 1 to Willaims? Not much interest shown by these kids in attending any of the the SLACs.

In addition to Williams:

Harvard (6)
Yale (7)
Princeton (6)
Stanford: (7)
U Chicago (13)
UC Berkeley (12)
Columbia (9)
Penn (7)
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Duke (8)
Dartmouth (4)
Brown (3)
Cornell (8)
Northwestern U (1)
Williams College (1)
US Air Force Academy (1)
US Coast Guard Academy (1)
NYU (6)
Georgetown (5)
Swarthmore (3)
Vanderbilt (3)
Washington U in St. Louis (1)
UCLA (1)
University of Michigan (11)
University of Virginia (81)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (12)
College of William & Mary (32)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)
USC (3)
Purdue (8)
Notre Dame (1)
Bowdoin College (1)
Indiana University at Bloomington (1)
Babson (1)
Wellesley (1)
Rice University (5)
George Washington University (4)
University of Maryland College Park (4)
University of Texas Austin (1)
Colby Collge (1)
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (1)
Penn State University (4)
Syracuse University (1)
North Carolina State University (1)
University of Pittsburgh (17)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (1)
University of Miami (1)
Northeastern University (1)
Rutgers University (3)
Case Western Reserve University (5)
University of Colorado Boulder (2)
Ohio State (2)
Arizona State University (1)
University of Delaware (1)
Oregon State University 1)
Reed College (1)
JMU (3)
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (1)
VCU (8)
Houghton College (1)
GMU (11)
University of Richmond (1)
Washington and Lee (1)
University of Oklahoma (1)
McGill University (1)
University of St Andrews (1)

yeah, I saw that. Still say not much interest shown in any of the SLACs.

[Anonymous]

Ehh I wouldn't say no interest. 3 kids are going to Swarthmore, 1 to Williams, 1 to Bowdoin and 1 to Colby. Probably more of an affordability issue. Those schools are expensive and most TJ families probably don't qualify for financial aid, but can't put down 60 K either. They also don't give merit aid either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ehh I wouldn't say no interest. 3 kids are going to Swarthmore, 1 to Williams, 1 to Bowdoin and 1 to Colby. Probably more of an affordability issue. Those schools are expensive and most TJ families probably don't qualify for financial aid, but can't put down 60 K either. They also don't give merit aid either.

Isn't W&M considered SLAC?

[Anonymous]

What about Dartmouth and Brown? Aren't the more of liberal arts colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ehh I wouldn't say no interest. 3 kids are going to Swarthmore, 1 to Williams, 1 to Bowdoin and 1 to Colby. Probably more of an affordability issue. Those schools are expensive and most TJ families probably don't qualify for financial aid, but can't put down 60 K either. They also don't give merit aid either.

Isn't W&M considered SLAC?

No. See the U.S. News rankings for Liberal Arts Colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Dartmouth and Brown? Aren't the more of liberal arts colleges?

No. See: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges?int=a73d09

[Anonymous]

^ TJ acceptances noticeably missing from most of those names -- of course you would expect that from graduates of a STEM high school.