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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheers for TJ. But these numbers are plain wrong. TJ has lots of great students and offers a fantastic STEM education. But, it's admission rates to the top colleges are only a couple percentage points better than the schools' overall admission rates.

In the class of 2018, 94 TJ students applied to Harvard, 10 were accepted for an admit rate of 11%.[b] 89 students applied to MIT and 11 were accepted for a rate of 12%[/b]. 129 students applied to Princeton and 12 or 9% were accepted.  (Source: https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf) [/quote]

Did any school in the country do better than this?  (I have seen some years when they got an even higher number admitted).[/quote]

The point is that the "data" in the OP are bogus.  I can name several DC schools with better admission rates to MIT, but they don't come close to having as large cohort of really strong engineers as TJ.  Only a couple of students from those schools apply to MIT in any year, but at least one typically gets admitted (i.e. 1 admit a year out of 3-5 applicants).  Those schools also have similar numbers of Harvard and Princeton admits as TJ, but with a small fraction of the number of TJ's applicants, so their admit rates fluctuate around 20-25% (4-5x the overall H/P admission rates). If you want to talk medians, the typical TJ grad goes to UVA or VTech while the typical grad from those other DC schools goes to an Ivy/Chicago/Williams.[/quote]

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