How important is TJ for college?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

Yep, a troll who hasn't a clue what college admissions is like in NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

Yep, a troll who hasn't a clue what college admissions is like in NOVA.

Not a troll but a time traveler from the 60s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

Wow! So how many actually went to H/P/S?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

Wow! So how many actually attended H/P/S?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

Wow! So how many actually attended H/P/S?

There were not that many that applied. I know of 2 kid at harvard (out of 22 that applied), 2 from princeton. I do not know who went to Stanford.

The point was that these are the actually admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

I should add, this is for a junior. And for acc, I was thinking traditional acc: md, N.C. state, Clemson etc.

The real point is high performing students at the base schools can have comparable outcomes regarding colleges as tj. I am talk8ng about the top 20% compared to all but the top 10% of tj.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

I should add, this is for a junior. And for acc, I was thinking traditional acc: md, N.C. state, Clemson etc.

The real point is high performing students at the base schools can have comparable outcomes regarding colleges as tj. I am talk8ng about the top 20% compared to all but the top 10% of tj.

True top students at any FCPS high school will have very good chances at top college outcomes. But the top 10% out of Madison will have comparable outcomes to the top 50% at TJ. TJ had nearly 200 accepted into UVA last year almost half the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

I should add, this is for a junior. And for acc, I was thinking traditional acc: md, N.C. state, Clemson etc.

The real point is high performing students at the base schools can have comparable outcomes regarding colleges as tj. I am talk8ng about the top 20% compared to all but the top 10% of tj.

And I bet they can get merit aid, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

Gotcha. So you just went through and excluded colleges that disproved your point? What other colleges did you exclude as inconvenient? For example— most schools have a 95% admit rate to VA State schools with a 4.2/1300 PSAT— if you exclude UVA/ WM. The 90% admit rate to Big 10 didn’t happen to exclude U of Michigan Enginineering and Northwestern, did it? Did you exclude Berkeley and UCLA from the PAC 10?

Because, yes, Madison’s college admissions rates are as good as TJs if you just ignore the best schools with the lowest admssions rates. Smh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU 23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10 85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students. My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.

What high school is this?

PP is a troll. What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools? Total BS.

The key element was for kids like my daughter: 4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison. The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me. I imagine they processed the scattergrams.

I call BS. There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).

I was excluding UNC and Duke.

I should add, this is for a junior. And for acc, I was thinking traditional acc: md, N.C. state, Clemson etc.

The real point is high performing students at the base schools can have comparable outcomes regarding colleges as tj. I am talk8ng about the top 20% compared to all but the top 10% of tj.

WTF.?? I grew up on Tobacco Road, back when the ACC was only 8 schools (it was never the same after FL State and the play in game). And you are so, so, so, wrong. The 4 members of the “traditional ACC” are the Tobacco Road schools: Duke, UNC, NC State and Wake Forest. Duke and UNC are the heart of the ACC. Admit it, your u thought you would drop the lowest admit numbers to prove a point and got called on it.

[Anonymous]

Also a 1300/ 4.2 for a junior? That can’t be right. I thought that was the freshman year 8/9 PSAT number. And a junior should have some APs and have a higher number. My sophomore has a 1450, FFS. No wonder the UVA number is so low. And no way an unhooked kid with only a 1300/4.2 in 11th grade has any real chance at Northwestern, any of the Big 10 Engineering schools or the UCs. That’s just not happening.