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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A  couple facts. TJ GPA Last year ranged from about a 3.4 to about a 4.5-4.6 (weighted). If you search DCUM and look at last year's college list, you will see that 95% of the TJ kids (GPAs as low as 3.5) went to colleges that FCPS kids with a 4.2-4.4 would love to attend. And many of the schools that do not immediately jump out (like U Illinois Champagna)  have a top 10 engineering or CS department. Even the VA Tech kids were accepted to engineering, not general college. Some went to VCU to take advantage of the early/guaranteed admission program to men school. Tons of kids at top privates. And because most TJ kids are not from families wealthy enough to pay full freight private, they are likely getting significant merit aid. I forget the number, but the amount of merit aid for last year's class was shocking.

So yes, colleges know that an even split A-B average at TJ (unweighted 3.5) is stronger than anunweighteed 4.2 at a base school-- or higher, depending on the course load rigor. And a B/C average at TJ is stronger than an A/B at the base school.

Again-- search DCUM, pull the list of where kids are attending college. With a few exceptions for the bottom 5% (weighted 3.4), TJ kids do incredibly well in college admissions. And many are doing so on the school's dime

What do you expect from a school with almost 140 NMSFs?[/quote]

How do you get an unweighted 4.2? The bottom half at Tj is no better that the top 5-10% of fcps base schoold[/quote]

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