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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  If one cannot gain admission to UVA after attending TJ, what, then, was the point?[/quote]

Lot -- most? -- of TJ are grubby families that forego UVA for full merit ride to another college. And the elites offer such good financial aid, anyone under $200K has eyes on them for financial aid.[/quote]

Sorta. Many TJ kids are excellent students who get a significant amount of merit aid to attend a better engineering school. For all the UVA worship, UVA is only meh in engineering.  And I'm not sure why considering merit aid is "grubby".   What is wrong with spending less money to go to a better school?

Pull up the UVA engineering rankings. Look at all the schools that are better than them in engineering.  Compare the list of schools better than UVA in engineering with the list of TJ acceptances. Notice anything? [/quote]

Many TJ students are not planning to be engineers.[/quote]

But many are.  The US News top undergrad engineering schools, with number of TJ kids:

1.  MIT  (8)
2.  Stanford  (5)
3.  Berkley. (11)
4.  Cal Tech. (1)
     GA Tech (1)
6.   Illinois  (9)
      Michigan (16)
8.    CMU. (15)
9.    Cornell (13)
       Purdue (7)
      
So, TJ is sending 86 kids out of approx 450 to a top 10 engineering school.  128 to top ten plus VT (currently ranked 16th). That's why the list is impressive.

BTW-- the engineering and CS lists are nearly identical.

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NP. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say. Just because its a top 10 engineering school doesn't mean all of the students going there are studying engineering. My kid goes to one of the schools on the list and is not studying engineering.[/quote]

Many TJ grads major in CS/engineering and some of them become patent attorneys, physicians with CS/engineering background, management consultants or quants at hedge funds, Quant funds or Ibanks. The trend is to hire CS & engineers at these companies. http://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-quants-today-kings-of-wall-street/5BECBC7F-ADC8-422A-9FE2-B1A12E6114BB.html?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=contextual&cx_artPos=2#cxrecs_s

So yes, many of them do study engineering/CS as an undergraduate. STEM majors are extremely in demand at consulting companies, hedge funds and investment banks and at law firms as well. Tell your kids to major in STEM especially CS or engineering. :lol: [/quote]

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