Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?

[Anonymous]

7 for UC Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

Yikes! That’s a lot of less acceptances compared to last year. I know of a couple kids, once maybe middle of the pack at TJ but the other I would put in the top 10-15% who got less than desirable results.

I know it looks bleak but since the new admissions policy is better aligned with those used by the top universities I'd expect things to improve dramatically once the previous generation moves on. A lot of them only got in because of test buying anyway.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA

Congratulations to amazing TJ grads.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

OOS + CS = fewer TJ students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i read this on another forum.
I know things are crazy this admissions season, country-wide.
How are things at TJ?

It's really gone downhill, but hopefully the changes to admission will help address these failings in years to come.

You must be crying because of all the envy and disdain. Stop crying and whining and try to do better.

Not sure what you're going on about but I couldn't be happier with TJ's new direction. Things should start looking up once the kids who got in because of test buying graduate.

No, things will get better due to the evisceration of affirmative action coming to the top colleges/universities near you in Summer blockbuster hit.

Yup, ending the Asian discrimination in college admissions will definitely increase the top 20 acceptances from about 80 to 160.

Hate to break it to you, but colleges are going to admit who they want to admit and they'll come up with a different way to do it. Especially private universities. And FCPS is going to find a way to do the same thing with TJ. The courts won't save you - you need to actually have positions that are popular enough to win elections.

The bottom line is that colleges and universities are businesses, and it's not good business for them in today's environment to have a predominance of any race, ethnicity, or other demographic in their student body.

Other forward-thinking businesses have recognized that there are multiple ways to achieve and demonstrate merit - should it come as a surprise that elite universities have followed in their footsteps?

It's true they will do what they want, but it seems like an easy start for a solution would be to cut back on international students from China.

Why would they do that when those international students are the academic creme de la creme and will likely do PhD/postgrads/research, while also fully paying the high undergraduate tuition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA

Add:

5 Johns Hopkins and 3 Caltech

[Anonymous]

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This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA

Add:

5 Johns Hopkins and 3 Caltech

Add:

6 Dartmouth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

Not an answer to your question, but have heard (anecdotally) that GT takes a lot of Academies of Loudoun kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

OOS + CS = fewer TJ students.

It's a top CS school, but these state flagships lack the prestige of places like Cornell or MIT. Nevertheless, you'd get a great education at any of the state flagships in the T15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA
5 Johns Hopkins
3 Caltech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell
8 Berkeley
9 UCLA
5 Johns Hopkins
3 Caltech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

Not an answer to your question, but have heard (anecdotally) that GT takes a lot of Academies of Loudoun kids.

interesting .. I did not know that .. DS is in TJ and this is one of his target schools

[Anonymous]

there are not 11 MIT admissions from TJ this year - whoever made this list either got bad info or is just making up numbers. there are ~5.