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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are still not able to comprehend that with a mid-year GPA from TJ 4.4X, SAT close to 1600, very good ECs, my child got rejected from all Ivies applied, waitlisted in a few T20 schools mostly private and UVA. We are trying to understand what went wrong. Really bothering us for the last couple of months how this can happen with this profile. Was GPA too low?. Did rigor matter at all?. They take the hardest courses but kids from other schools get into T20 schools with less grade or rigor.[/quote]

You would have been 100x better off attending a lower resource school. I am not sure why TJ parents haven't grasped this yet?[/quote]

It's always a balance. Bright students between 14-18 still need a peer group and good teachers to really succeed. Dropping some brainiac into the worst high school in East St. Louis isn't doing them any favors, both in life and for college admissions.

That being said, the TJ catchment area encompasses some perfectly good non-magnet public schools. So choices are being made. At the T20 level, you are always competing against classmates for those spots. And you have to distinguish yourself in some way. But I'm surprised this student was waitlisted at UVA. What are they doing in Charlottesville? I know they need to take students from all over the state and not just NOVA, but c'mon. A 4.4 and and a near 1600 from TJ? Really? [/quote]

The most conspicuous college admissions penalty from TJ is at UVA.[/quote]

Bc they can’t admit half the school. This is not news.[/quote]

I am not sure why not.  
Someone asked Dean J if the reason they were limiting their offers to TJ so they wouldn't end up with 100 TJ kids in their entering class and she pointed out there have been years when they made over 100 offers to TJ students.[/quote]

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