What's the point of TJ 2017 elite school acceptance stats mirror nationawide acceptance rates

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No, not necessarily, but they are generally in the top 1% or so academically.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

It's the unique TJ education including unique courses and research etc. I know of a TJ graduate who graduated in the bottom 10% of TJ and has gone on to UVA and graduated in the top 15%.

All TJ grads are wunderkinder.

Yes. If bottom 10% at TJ graduates UVA in the top 15%, just think how well top 10% TJ grads end up doing. They usually graduate top 10% with 2 degrees in 3 years and head off to top 10 grad/medical/law schools.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

It's the unique TJ education including unique courses and research etc. I know of a TJ graduate who graduated in the bottom 10% of TJ and has gone on to UVA and graduated in the top 15%.

All TJ grads are wunderkinder.

Yes. If bottom 10% at TJ graduates UVA in the top 15%, just think how well top 10% TJ grads end up doing. They usually graduate top 10% with 2 degrees in 3 years and head off to top 10 grad/medical/law schools.

If you look at the TJ admission statistics for UVA, that shows barely more than half of the applicant are admitted, I would say that someone from the bottom 10% at TJ being admitted would be quite unusual.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

It's the unique TJ education including unique courses and research etc. I know of a TJ graduate who graduated in the bottom 10% of TJ and has gone on to UVA and graduated in the top 15%.

All TJ grads are wunderkinder.

Yes. If bottom 10% at TJ graduates UVA in the top 15%, just think how well top 10% TJ grads end up doing. They usually graduate top 10% with 2 degrees in 3 years and head off to top 10 grad/medical/law schools.

If you look at the TJ admission statistics for UVA, that shows barely more than half of the applicant are admitted, I would say that someone from the bottom 10% at TJ being admitted would be quite unusual.

This kid got into a top LAC and then transferred to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the more complete list that was posted on the other board. Looks plenty impressive to me in what many TJ students considered a weaker class than the previous class of 2016.

UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled)
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled)
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled)
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled)
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled)
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Interesting data on Georgia Tech. Great STEM school...popular amongst TJ grads to apply (111). Even though 35 were accepted, only 1 chose to attend? Is that a misprint or is that just odd?

Off year for GA Tech at TJ. Usually about a half dozen kids go. I have a kid at TJ looking at GA Tech, and for some reason there is just not as much interest among classmates Kids are much more into UCIC, Michigan the UCals, etc. They are also less interest in UT Austin and Texas A&M. I have a theory, for which I will promptly get skewered and called racist. But based on personal observation, and not intending to disparage anyone, it seems like Asian kids, especially 1st gen Asian kids, are less interested in the South (GA, Texas) than the NE, Midwest, CA. Not sure why. BUt, IME, Asian kids just are not that excited about Southern schools-- really schools to the South of NOVA, except maybe Duke. The is also less interest in Rice than you would expect.

I'm not Asian. And not trying to start a flame war with Asians. But, it makes me wonder is the south is perceived as being less welcoming? Or the schools are not as well known? Hard to believe w/ Ga Tech. But PP is right. A lot of the GA Tech applies are that interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the more complete list that was posted on the other board. Looks plenty impressive to me in what many TJ students considered a weaker class than the previous class of 2016.

UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled)
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled)
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled)
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled)
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled)
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Actually, this list does not seem impressive to me when you consider that to just get admitted to TJ, one has to be a potentially ivy caliber middle schooler. Less than half of TJ applicants get into UVA. I'm sure that in 8th grade these kids were regarded as easily being the types of students to get into UVA. Honestly if I had a straight A middle schooler who tests well and is involved in extracurricular activities, I would assume that he would go to the likes of UVA. I would see it as disheartening that less than half of these types of kids get admitted after attending TJ.

Correcting the PP. Not sure where he/she got that less than half get into UVA with the numbers clearly listed above. This year 56% got accepted to UVA which is historically low for TJ. Usually about 64% get accepted over the last 5 years. if you are in the top 50% at TJ (though TJ doesn't formally rank but the kids and schools know where they stand by their weighted GPAs), you have about an 80% chance of getting in. UVA was a near safety school for my S and a his close friends who all got in. Most of them including my S chose not to attend UVA in the end and enrolled at some of the other schools listed above.

Ok, but a 64% acceptance rate is still not impressive considering that in 8th grade this group consisted of the highest achievers in their schools. It shows that something about TJ attendance, whether it be not ending up in the top half due to stiff competition, harder to stand out in extracurriculars among peers, UVA wanting to limit the # of admittances from the same school, or perhaps something else, seems to be causing kids who in 8th grade would probably be considered shoo- ins for UVA to not get admitted.

Many of the top TJ students ~top 20% do not apply to UVA. My kid (in top 10%) and many of his friends did not bother applying to UVA since they were not interested in UVA.

+1. My kid is going to be more in the second quartile (25-50%) and isn't applying. Too big. VT Engineering for safety (also too big, but needs something we can pay for in the mix). But wants a smaller school- Harvey Mudd (reach), Rose-Hulman, maybea school like Davidson to do a 3-2 with Columbia Engineering. CWRU, CMU, and RPI.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the more complete list that was posted on the other board. Looks plenty impressive to me in what many TJ students considered a weaker class than the previous class of 2016.

UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled)
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled)
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled)
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled)
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled)
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Interesting data on Georgia Tech. Great STEM school...popular amongst TJ grads to apply (111). Even though 35 were accepted, only 1 chose to attend? Is that a misprint or is that just odd?

Off year for GA Tech at TJ. Usually about a half dozen kids go. I have a kid at TJ looking at GA Tech, and for some reason there is just not as much interest among classmates Kids are much more into UCIC, Michigan the UCals, etc. They are also less interest in UT Austin and Texas A&M. I have a theory, for which I will promptly get skewered and called racist. But based on personal observation, and not intending to disparage anyone, it seems like Asian kids, especially 1st gen Asian kids, are less interested in the South (GA, Texas) than the NE, Midwest, CA. Not sure why. BUt, IME, Asian kids just are not that excited about Southern schools-- really schools to the South of NOVA, except maybe Duke. The is also less interest in Rice than you would expect.

I'm not Asian. And not trying to start a flame war with Asians. But, it makes me wonder is the south is perceived as being less welcoming? Or the schools are not as well known? Hard to believe w/ Ga Tech. But PP is right. A lot of the GA Tech applies are that interested.

I had a kid graduate recently from TJ. Most Asians do not want to go south of N. VA for school and the south doesn't have quality schools at least those strong in STEM. Also, there is enough of southern inhospitality already in NoVA so why go further south for more inhospitality and below average school. As for GaTech, anything that starts out with Georgia is not attractive. Duke is ok but its location hurts it.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

we know-- UVA is the best at everything. But not Engineering, where it is ranked 32 (US New, Engineeering with grad programs list). Vs. VT (16). No love for GT (4th, tie), or UT Austin (11), Northwestern (13). Lots of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, Cal Tec, Berkeley, (1-4) Also, lots of love UCIC and Michigan (tie 6th), CMU, Cornell and Purdue (8-10).

Also weird, because:

UM. 132/65/17
UICU. 68/48/11
CMU. 140/36/15
Purdue. 71/6/7
Berkeley. 97/34/11

But GT. 123/46/6. (2016-- more normal year). 111/35/1. (2017)
UT Austin. 28/9/1

And Northwestern. 46/1/0. (Huh???)

Also usually TJ interest in Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman and Olin (1,2,3 in engineering w/o grad school), with a couple kids going to each.

So why it UT Austin or GT? Kids are admitted from TJ. It's either the south or crappy merit aid, I guess.

And I can't explain Northwestern. At all.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

we know-- UVA is the best at everything. But not Engineering, where it is ranked 32 (US New, Engineeering with grad programs list). Vs. VT (16). No love for GT (4th, tie), or UT Austin (11), Northwestern (13). Lots of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, Cal Tec, Berkeley, (1-4) Also, lots of love UCIC and Michigan (tie 6th), CMU, Cornell and Purdue (8-10).

Also weird, because:

UM. 132/65/17
UICU. 68/48/11
CMU. 140/36/15
Purdue. 71/6/7
Berkeley. 97/34/11

But GT. 123/46/6. (2016-- more normal year). 111/35/1. (2017)
UT Austin. 28/9/1

And Northwestern. 46/1/0. (Huh???)

Also usually TJ interest in Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman and Olin (1,2,3 in engineering w/o grad school), with a couple kids going to each.

So why it UT Austin or GT? Kids are admitted from TJ. It's either the south or crappy merit aid, I guess.

And I can't explain Northwestern. At all.

Berkeley is ranked 3rd and Caltech is ranked 4th in engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

we know-- UVA is the best at everything. But not Engineering, where it is ranked 32 (US New, Engineeering with grad programs list). Vs. VT (16). No love for GT (4th, tie), or UT Austin (11), Northwestern (13). Lots of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, Cal Tec, Berkeley, (1-4) Also, lots of love UCIC and Michigan (tie 6th), CMU, Cornell and Purdue (8-10).

Also weird, because:

UM. 132/65/17
UICU. 68/48/11
CMU. 140/36/15
Purdue. 71/6/7
Berkeley. 97/34/11

But GT. 123/46/6. (2016-- more normal year). 111/35/1. (2017)
UT Austin. 28/9/1

And Northwestern. 46/1/0. (Huh???)

Also usually TJ interest in Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman and Olin (1,2,3 in engineering w/o grad school), with a couple kids going to each.

So why it UT Austin or GT? Kids are admitted from TJ. It's either the south or crappy merit aid, I guess.

And I can't explain Northwestern. At all.

Berkeley is ranked 3rd and Caltech is ranked 4th in engineering.

I have no dog in this fight but my kids' TJ friends who graduated in engineering from UVA & VA Tech are all employed - at Microsoft, Google, Space X, Boeing, Palantir. For computer science/engineering I know that the same companies interview at both UVA & Tech. Tech may have an advantage in other types of engineering. I know that many kids at TJ turn down more highly ranked out-of-state schools to go to an in-state school -- they're smart kids and would rather start out with little debt and pay have as much as for what is still an excellent education.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the more complete list that was posted on the other board. Looks plenty impressive to me in what many TJ students considered a weaker class than the previous class of 2016.

UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled)
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled)
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled)
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled)
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled)
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Interesting data on Georgia Tech. Great STEM school...popular amongst TJ grads to apply (111). Even though 35 were accepted, only 1 chose to attend? Is that a misprint or is that just odd?

Off year for GA Tech at TJ. Usually about a half dozen kids go. I have a kid at TJ looking at GA Tech, and for some reason there is just not as much interest among classmates Kids are much more into UCIC, Michigan the UCals, etc. They are also less interest in UT Austin and Texas A&M. I have a theory, for which I will promptly get skewered and called racist. But based on personal observation, and not intending to disparage anyone, it seems like Asian kids, especially 1st gen Asian kids, are less interested in the South (GA, Texas) than the NE, Midwest, CA. Not sure why. BUt, IME, Asian kids just are not that excited about Southern schools-- really schools to the South of NOVA, except maybe Duke. The is also less interest in Rice than you would expect.

I'm not Asian. And not trying to start a flame war with Asians. But, it makes me wonder is the south is perceived as being less welcoming? Or the schools are not as well known? Hard to believe w/ Ga Tech. But PP is right. A lot of the GA Tech applies are that interested.

It's weird though bc UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, Rice, etc. all have way more Asians than UIUC or Michigan (not the UCs though). Rice in particular is amazingly diverse, way more diverse than any of the northern schools.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

we know-- UVA is the best at everything. But not Engineering, where it is ranked 32 (US New, Engineeering with grad programs list). Vs. VT (16). No love for GT (4th, tie), or UT Austin (11), Northwestern (13). Lots of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, Cal Tec, Berkeley, (1-4) Also, lots of love UCIC and Michigan (tie 6th), CMU, Cornell and Purdue (8-10).

Also weird, because:

UM. 132/65/17
UICU. 68/48/11
CMU. 140/36/15
Purdue. 71/6/7
Berkeley. 97/34/11

But GT. 123/46/6. (2016-- more normal year). 111/35/1. (2017)
UT Austin. 28/9/1

And Northwestern. 46/1/0. (Huh???)

Also usually TJ interest in Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman and Olin (1,2,3 in engineering w/o grad school), with a couple kids going to each.

So why it UT Austin or GT? Kids are admitted from TJ. It's either the south or crappy merit aid, I guess.

And I can't explain Northwestern. At all.

Berkeley is ranked 3rd and Caltech is ranked 4th in engineering.

Oh FFS. So typically TJ. I pull a ton of date from US News and Navience, and use my iPhone to post it, And the only thing someone notices is that I transposed the 3rd and 4th ranked engineering schools were transposed. And must point that out.

Retraction: "Lot's of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, BERKLEY, CAL TECH (1-4!"

Happy PP??

Also: Cal Tech (9% acceptance rate!!): 26/4/1

And before someone asks:

Stanford '(5% admit rate): 121/7/5
MIT. (8% admit rate). 93/10/8

This is officially depressing.