How many TJ kids got into MIT this season?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school.

There’s nothing wrong with a kid applying to both MIT and Harvard. Many TJ kids and other kids from all over the world apply to BOTH. This TJ kid that got into all the top schools (HYPSM+Caltech and Duke) was accepted through RD. Not early action. With college admissions being so unpredictable, it is not unheard of to get into just one of those and more likely to be rejected from them all. This kid just got extremely lucky and has something colleges find compelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school.

Are you sure it doesn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school.

Are you sure it doesn

Are you sure?

I have some experience with a couple of magnet schools in NYC and at TJ, the acceptance rates do not seem anywhere near constant from year to year.

You are judged relative to your peers but there doesn't seem to be a Stuyvesant quota or a TJ quota.

Private schools might be different because they are so much smaller with classes closer to 100 than 500, selective colleges might try to make sure they accept at least one or two kid from that school but they don't seem to have a cap. MIT admissions is not trying to fill a quota of 12 TJ students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have.

That kid took away spots from other TJ students.

That's not how that works.

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school.

I am the PP you are responding to - I agree there is nothing wrong with very strong students applying to multiple top colleges. Things are too unpredictable now so very few kids are really a sure thing. But the top colleges don't want too many kids from TJ so one kid getting into multiple top colleges likely did result in other kids not getting in. That doesn't mean the kid with multiple acceptances did anything wrong. And that kid with multiple acceptances can still only attend one school so it will all wash out in the end.

There’s nothing wrong with a kid applying to both MIT and Harvard. Many TJ kids and other kids from all over the world apply to BOTH. This TJ kid that got into all the top schools (HYPSM+Caltech and Duke) was accepted through RD. Not early action. With college admissions being so unpredictable, it is not unheard of to get into just one of those and more likely to be rejected from them all. This kid just got extremely lucky and has something colleges find compelling.

[Anonymous]

At least 4 or 5 accepted to MIT this year.
TJ did very well with Ivy acceptances in RD this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least 4 or 5 accepted to MIT this year.
TJ did very well with Ivy acceptances in RD this year.

12 got into MIT last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least 4 or 5 accepted to MIT this year.
TJ did very well with Ivy acceptances in RD this year.

Here is what the acceptances spreadsheet that the kids are keeping says. Take it with a gain of salt

MIT: 7
Harvard: 9
Caltech: 4
Princeton:2
Yale: 4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least 4 or 5 accepted to MIT this year.
TJ did very well with Ivy acceptances in RD this year.

12 got into MIT last year.

This is correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least 4 or 5 accepted to MIT this year.
TJ did very well with Ivy acceptances in RD this year.

Here is what the acceptances spreadsheet that the kids are keeping says. Take it with a gain of salt

MIT: 7
Harvard: 9
Caltech: 4
Princeton:2
Yale: 4

There are several IVY/IVY+ kids that are not on the spreadsheet.

[Anonymous]

Link for spreadsheet?

[Anonymous]

Wrong.

Harvard - 4
Princeton - 4
Yale - 4
Caltech - 5
MIT - 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrong.

Harvard - 4
Princeton - 4
Yale - 4
Caltech - 5
MIT - 3

2-3 child swept/overlapped.

[Anonymous]

What’s the profile of kids who got into mit and the kids who swept across the ivies?