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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Example of TJ and McLean matriculation using numbers they've reported in their school newspapers in recent years (TJ first, McLean 2nd)... I'm ballparking "tiers" based on US News rankings and combining national, international, and SLACs:

Top-20ish tier (excl. UVA) - 16%, 5%
Top-4 publics (UVA, Cal, UCLA, Mich) - 20%, 11%
Next tier (rank ~20-50) - 31%, 13%
Next tier (rank ~50-120) - 22%, 23%
Everything else (including NVCC, GMU, etc.) - 9%, 49%

Obviously where kids matriculate to depends on a wide variety of factors, and this also ignores kids who didn't proceed directly to college from HS (and/or chose not to report it in their HS paper)... but in "ballpark" terms it appears for example the "middle 1/3" of the class at TJ is getting into and attending that rank ~20-50 tier colleges, whereas at McLean you need to be in the top ~15-30% of your class to access that same tier.

For top-20 schools, you need to be top 5% at McLean, but only top 16% at TJ... which one of those is the easier to achieve? (I'm guessing top 5% at McLean)... though again these numbers ignore various hooks and other factors that could play in. If you don't have one of those, maybe it is harder from McLean, maybe you'd actually need to be top 1-3% at McLean in the absence of those other considerations.[/quote]

The information voluntarily reported in school newspapers, especially in recent years, isn’t robust enough to allow for the conclusions you’re trying to draw.  [/quote]

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