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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thomas Jefferson and Montgomery Blair magnet[/quote]
IF you are in the top of your class[/quote]
a) that statement is true pretty much for any high achieving school.  
b) [b]TJ (don't know Blair Magnet - I live in VA) sends the most kids (by % of class and in absolute terms) top HYPS than any school in the DC area[/b].[/quote]
I feel like the same TJ booster makes this same false claim every six months, so I now know just where to get the data to correct it.

2016 graduating class info, all available online:
TJ had 457 graduates total. [b]26 students[/b] destined for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ([b]5.7% of the class[/b]).
STA had roughly 80 (?) grads total.  9.8 students (5 yr average) destined for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ([b]12.25% of the class[/b]).

I assume other strong independent schools in DC, such as Sidwell, GDS, or Maret, which all keep their college results private, had similar results.

No doubt that TJ is a great school.  No doubt also that TJ's large class, which is 4-5 times bigger than any private school, yields huge raw numbers of students going to top colleges.  But to claim that it's more on a percentage basis is just false.  Maybe if we had college results for Sidwell, STA, NCS, GDS, and Maret, that might be a combined class as big as TJ, and we could compare their combined college results with TJ.  Or if you had college results for the Blair magnet (100 grads), you could multiply them by 4.5 to compare.[/quote]

Above figures regarding TJ appears incorrect. The numbers from class of 2016:

College        Apply         Accept

1. Harvard is not listed since 10 or fewer were accepted but typically on average 6 are accepted (typically 4 to 7).
2. Yale University         83      13
3. Princeton University 128     12
4. Stanford University is not listed since 10 or fewer were accepted but typically on average 10 are accepted (typically 9 to 12).

Yale + Princeton = 25. [b]HYPS = about 41 acceptances[/b]. [b]HYPSM = about 56 acceptances.[/b]

Acceptances to MIT was  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 126  applied 15 accepted). So, HYPSM results would be the best or one of the best in the area.

https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202016-17%20online.pdf[/quote]

All great schools. However to keep the argument real, doesn't TJ have many more students? I think the only way to make it fair is to do a percentage of its students that are going and then you can compare the schools. STA only has 80 kids in a graduating class, Sidwell has 130? So I think to make comparisons fair you should do a percentage of its graduating class rather than actual numbers. Same with NCS - also has graduating class of only maybe 85. I by no means saying TJ is not a great school. It clearly is. [/quote]

No skin in this game, but I disagree with you - - absolute numbers do matter when all of these high schools are selective in the first place. Colleges don't look at what percentage of the class they are taking (especially not all of these colleges collectively), they look at individual applicants to their school only. If more individuals from school A are accepted at all of these elite colleges than from school B, when both claim to be pulling the best students in the area into their cohorts, then absolute numbers do matter.[/quote]

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