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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And PP when they get those As, I bet they are in any college or university they choose. [/quote]

Actually that's not true. I know a TJ grad who had all A's except for one B, as well as a nearly perfect SAT score, and she didn't get into any Ivies. She went to UVA.[/quote]

Maybe she wanted to go to UVA.  [/quote]

She got into Duke, Rice, Carnegie Mellon and UVA. Did not get into Harvard (one parent had a Harvard grad degree), Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Penn or UC Berkeley. Participated in 2 varsity sports, plus other extracurriculars. I know all of this because I'm good friends with her mom. [/quote]

Maybe she didn't take advanced post AP math or post AP science courses that most top students at TJ take. [/quote]

I have had 2 kids at TJ so I'm familiar with the curriculum. Her only B was in an AP/post AP science class that gives many students their first B. I know she took Calc BC in 10th grade and then the math classes that follow in 11th and 12th. And to address the SAT score, I know her math and CR scores were each 800, writing was a little less. Also had 800s on all her SAT IIs and 5's on her APs. She is very happy at UVA - is getting great job/internship offers and her parents are happy to pay for grad school as she saved them so much money by choosing a state school over a private. [/quote]

What were the ECs aside from 2 sports? Any officer positions or community service? [b]it's just odd since about 20 ~ 25% of the TJ graduates make it to Ivys.[/b][/quote]

Do you have a link to this claim?  It seems wildly off.  20-25% would mean that 90-110 students go to Ivies or 11-14 per Ivy.  I haven't seen those numbers- even for TJ. [/quote]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/377204.page[/quote]

1) Since when is an anonymous post on DCUM evidence?   :D 
2) It shows [i]acceptances[/i]  not where they are going.  One student can be accepted to more than one university.
3)  The number of "acceptances" on your link is closer to 15% than 20-25%.

Anything else?[/quote]

TJ college acceptance/enrollment history (2009 - 2013)

Brown University
64	[b]28[/b]
University of California at Berkeley
58	12
California Institute of Technology
51	24
University of Chicago
60	17
Columbia University
53	[b]27[/b]
Cornell University
203	[b]77[/b
Dartmouth College
59	[b]29[/b]
Duke University
166	57
Georgetown University
65	20
Harvard College
30	[b]23[/b]
Johns Hopkins University
63	9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
97	68
University of Michigan
137	21
New York University
90	20
Northwestern University
63	13
University of Pennsylvania
60	[b]32[/b]
Princeton University
97	[b]53[/b]
Stanford University
51	38
University of Virginia
1115	498
Yale University     
56     [b]28[/b]                                                                                    
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Okay, so 297 went to Ivy League in the past five years.  So around 60 per year.  There are around ~450 TJ graduates each year.   That is not 20-25%.  It is 13-14%.[/quote]

Many more were accepted to Ivy League schools and students were also accepted to places like Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UC-Berkeley, Duke, Chicago, Johns Hopkins. Many students accepted to top schools choose to attend UVA or W&M.[/quote]

Now you are changing your claim.  If your original claim had been that TJ student are [/i]accepted to excellent colleges[i].  I would have agreed with you and moved on.  I disagreed with your (false and inflated) claim that 20-25% of TJs students [i]make it to Ivys[/i].   A premise you have not proven.

You have changed your claim on three key points: a) you have expanded the number of Universities to include non Ivy colleges and Universities, b) you are now talking about acceptances rather than attendance and c)you have removed any claim to actual %s.  We don't know how many individual student were accepted into an Ivy because all we see is the aggregate and we know some students get accepted to more than one Ivy.

FWIW, I agree with your new premise.  TJ students are accepted into many Ivy League and other named colleges.  No dispute about that.  [/quote]

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