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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know how UVA is Virginia's flagship university where Virginia's top students attend, and [b]VT is the de facto STEM flagship with strong STEM programs where Virginia's top STEM talent attends[/b]? Well, can you help me identify some other states' comparable STEM flagship? For instance...

U Michigan/Michigan State U
UT Austin/Texas A&M 
UNC Chapel Hill/NC State 
U Georgia/Georgia Tech
Ohio State/?
Penn State/?
Rutgers/?
Others? 
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False premise.  As someone else indicated, top Virginia STEM talent does not go to Virginia Tech.  Some of it does, but certainly not most.  A higher number of  TJ grads go to UVA and W&M than to VT, and TJ is the top STEM high school in the state.  [/quote]

Please post your citations.  
DP[/quote]
NP. This is TJ from last year (beginning on page 18).  VT may get more in 2024 since they got rid of the silly ED.
https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/2023seniorissue
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WM - 24
VT - 23
And no doubt more this year, as you said.  [b]Not really making the PP’s claim that more TJ grads go to WM than VT.[/b]  [/quote]

Last 5 years looks like this for TJ graduates:  [b]207 to UVA, 132 to W&M, 82 to VT. [/b] Using a single year is subject to greater variability.

But also consider it this way -- VT has 1.8X as many undergraduates as UVA and 4.6X as many as W&M.  Proportionally more should be going to VT, but that hasn't happened.[/quote]

Please stop posting numbers without citations to back them up.  You might as well be making them up.[/quote]

https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/2023seniorissue
https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/senior_issue_2022_combined
https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SeniorIssue.pdf
https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/tjtoday_senior_issue_2020
https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/tjtoday_senior_issue_2019_for_web[/quote]

Keep in mind VT has a bias against TJ applicants and doesn't accept them as much as one would expect. [/quote]

Why would VT have a bias against a high school (in the same state) that may place more students in top college STEM programs than any other hogh school in the country?[/quote]

VT doesn't have a bias against TJ.  That's just what TJ parents say when their kids don't get in.  [/quote]

More TJ kids went to UMD than VT last year   UMD is in another state and is more selective.  [/quote]

Show citations please.  Because this sounds like pure BS.
DP[/quote]

Why would it be BS? UMD is much, much, much closer to TJ than VT is. UMD is also closer to jobs and internships. And yes it costs more, for a Virginia resident, but a lot of TJ kids will get merit discounts that help close the gap. I don’t know if it’s true that more TJ kids go to UMD than VT, but it’s certainly plausible. [/quote]

It was 29 to UMD last year and 23 to VT.

https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/2023seniorissue

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Big Ten is huge draw.[/quote]

DP. This is laughable. UMD has little athletic fanfare compared to most Big Ten Schools. [/quote]

3rd most conference titles in all sports since joining. 3rd highest SAT/ACT incoming freshman scores among all schools in the conference. The most recent NCAA basketball titles both men’s and women’s in the conference.[/quote]

Why is their football stadium empty? [/quote]
Because it's June. [/quote]

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