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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:10 again.  TJ is a great school, but you diminish it when you exaggerate its successes so blatantly.[/quote]

Not so blatant:

Class of 2016

Harvard about 5 or 6
Dartmouth about 9 or 10
Stanford about 9 or 10
Brown 12
Princeton 12
Columbia 12
Georgetown 13
Yale 13
UPenn 13
MIT 15
Duke 17
U of Chicago 18
Cornell University 29
UC Berkeley 35
University of Michigan 61
William & Mary 173
UVA 224[/quote]

1. Those are all acceptances, not where the graduates are actually going to college.  As a result, there is a lot of double counting in there.  If one smart TJ student is admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, then she is listed 4 times in your numbers.

2. Those numbers do not provide an apples-to-apples comparison with any private school numbers we have.  For STA for example, the numbers I posted are just for the colleges where its graduates actually attended, so there is no double counting in STA's matriculation numbers.  Comparing TJ acceptances to STA matriculations doesn't make much sense.

3. Thankfully, we have actual TJ matriculation numbers, so we can see exactly how many students went to each school.  Those are the TJ matriculation numbers I posted above.  To save you the trouble, here are the details: Harvard (6 attending), Yale (7), Princeton (6), Stanford (7).  Great results, but very different from mere acceptances.    https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/tjtoday_senior_issue_2016

I hope that helps provide factual context for our discussion.[/quote]

You make a valid point but you also have to consider that many TJ grads forego Ivy or Stanford to attend other top 25 schools since those non-ivy top 25 schools offer substantial merit scholarships including full-rides. Looking at both acceptances and matriculation numbers along with the amount of merit based scholarship amounts received by the graduating class (approximately 45 million dollars) would be more informative. Most TJ families are middle/upper middle HHI familes that do not qualify for financial aid so it would be difficult to turn down $150,00 to $250,000 merit based scholarships to top 25 schools.[/quote]

My kid graduated from TJ recently and he had to turn down a top school for another school which offered to pay full tuition and room/board for 4 years. It is not uncommon for TJ grads to follow the money.[/quote]

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