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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly your kid’s biggest problem will probably be that they’re coming from TJ. They need to knock their application questions out of the park. [/quote]

This.  No college will have unlimited opening for students from any HS.  So a qualified student will always partly be competing against other students from the same HS for the N admissions slots that a particular college will allocate.  Yes, TJ probably has an N greater than say Robinson, but TJ is filled to the brim with qualified students many of whom will have a bunch of quality ECs and other non-test/non-GPA differentiators.  [/quote]

Agreed with this.  TJ kids all have really high SAT/ACT and high weighted GPA.  To stand out in TJ, WGPA needs to be higher than 4.5 with SAT 1550+.  GPA is far more important than SAT.  My NMF kid has high SAT but 4.3<WGPA<4.4 was rejected by UVA and all top 20s, even with 2 publications in peer reviewed journals.  Quite depressing.[/quote]

Should’ve switched them to a less stressful public school environment and obviously they would be #1[/quote]

Well, a 4.3-4.4 today is kind of like 3.3-3.4 prior to the grade inflation which sadly comes up short[/quote]

This is from TJ, no grade inflation. [/quote]

Correct. I've seen the highest GPA as 4.698
tracking many years. My guess is the top 20 to 30% of the class is likely in the range 4.3xx to 4.4xx that makes it very competitive. UVA admission is a hit or miss at that level for instance.

Kids who get into MIT/Stanford/CMU are typically from 4.4xx to 4.5xx and very few in 4.6xx based on actual data from students shared internally. Of course, key distinctions are USAMO or Regeneron or other published research. Some 4.6xx kids only got into Duke or Georgia Tech but didn't make it to Harvard, MIT among others.[/quote]

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