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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][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]

You should stop splitting hairs. Any educated person would put Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT and similar with ivy league schools.[/quote]

Maybe you should just get your facts right next time.  You seem very defensive and incapable of acknowledging when you misspeak.[/quote]

I'm a NP and not the PP who put up the admission stats. I am just giving credit where credit is due. TJ's college admissions are impressive.[/quote]

No one suggested otherwise.  But neither should those praising a STEM school get their noses out of joint where it's pointed out correctly by other posters that they appear to be struggling with some basic math and statistics. [/quote]

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