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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][quote=Anonymous]I call bull****.  In 2025, Jackson-Reed didn't send a single student to Harvard, Stanford, or MIT.  PolarisList.com .  If you are just going to make up stuff, you have to keep your claims vague and not capable of easy verification.[/quote]

Given that Jackson-Reed doesn't send ANY students to Harvard, Princeton or MIT, your DC's chances there are essentially zero.  Granted, your DC's chances at a top private are maybe only 3 percent, but those private school chances are still better.  Each family has to decide for itself whether a nominal increase in chance is worth a few hundred thousand dollars, but it is b.sh__ that chances are better in publics, even in top publics.[/quote]
JR has at least one student going to Princeton this year. [/quote]

Even if you accept this rumor, 1 in a graduating class of 500 would be awful results.[/quote]

The overwhelming majority of privates get 0/500 into Princeton.[/quote]

And yet Sidwell, GDS, STA, NCS, Maret, WIS, Bullis, and Potomac all manage to keep Princeton on their 4 year matriculation list multiple times over... and oh yea 4 years would put them right at the 500 mark for the most part... 🤔 [/quote]

Are you under the impression that TJ doesn't?[/quote]

Why do people not read the quote that people are responding to? I was responding to a comment about private schools, not TJ (a public school)... and while I believe TJ students do get in, not nearly percentage wise as the top privates.[/quote]

5 TJ students got into Princeton in 2025.  That's about 1%.

What's the percentage at these schools you mention?  You don't think that's close?

What would it be without athletic recruits or legacy?  I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.[/quote]

You want to nitpick on down to one year for one school to school and have it compared to that same year for 8 different schools and expect one person to be an expert on all of them??? You are delusional...  give the overall numbers.  How many applied to Ivy+, how many got into Ivy+ from TJ and maybe someone who has access to information from each of the schools can give you an actual comparison.  Otherwise you are just running straw-man arguments hoping something will turn out in your favor.[/quote]

It's just the most readily available info on 
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-virginia
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It’s lazy reporting. This website only focuses (inexplicably) on three universities. This discussion is about the twelve Ivy+ universities. If you don’t have the range for this discussion, please just say that and exit. [/quote]

Check the thread, we were talking about princeton for the last several posts because nobody wants to track 12 colleges at all these schools.

The claim was that TJ does not do nearly as well percentage-wise as the top privates.  I'm pointing out that you don't know what you're talking about.[/quote]

The TJ camp came up with Princeton on their own when they were moving goal posts around, we just pointed out that even with that one alone, you are still wrong, though now also looking at micro data.  As someone who works in marketing data, micro data is the quickest way to skew data the way you want it, as evident that TJ chose a year they sent 5 kids to Princeton when they only had 15 in the past 4 years, but still didn't work out for them cause at the end of the day, we can play those games better because we have more data on our side...[/quote]

And what are those percentages?  Show me how Sidwell blows TJ out of the water.

Face it, the fact that you have to do all this explaining means that its not as overwhelming and clear as you seem to want everyone to believe.  If you take differences in privilege into account, I'm starting to get concerned about the sidwell kids because they should be doing much much better.  Are they OK?  Maybe it's not too late to transfer to Trinity.[/quote]

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