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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thomas Jefferson and Montgomery Blair magnet[/quote]
IF you are in the top of your class[/quote]
a) that statement is true pretty much for any high achieving school.  
b) [b]TJ (don't know Blair Magnet - I live in VA) sends the most kids (by % of class and in absolute terms) top HYPS than any school in the DC area[/b].[/quote]
I feel like the same TJ booster makes this same false claim every six months, so I now know just where to get the data to correct it.

2016 graduating class info, all available online:
TJ had 457 graduates total. 26 students destined for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ([b]5.7% of the class[/b]).
STA had roughly 80 (?) grads total.  9.8 students (5 yr average) destined for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ([b]12.25% of the class[/b]).

I assume other strong independent schools in DC, such as Sidwell, GDS, or Maret, which all keep their college results private, had similar results.

No doubt that TJ is a great school.  No doubt also that TJ's large class, which is 4-5 times bigger than any private school, yields huge raw numbers of students going to top colleges.  But to claim that it's more on a percentage basis is just false.  Maybe if we had college results for Sidwell, STA, NCS, GDS, and Maret, that might be a combined class as big as TJ, and we could compare their combined college results with TJ.  Or if you had college results for the Blair magnet (100 grads), you could multiply them by 4.5 to compare.[/quote]

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