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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled) 
 Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled) 
 MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled) 
 Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled) 
 Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled) 
 WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all.  Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period.  TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions.  As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.    
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My kid doesn't go to TJ and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think that what your missing is that kids in the middle of the pack at TJ are going to incredibly good schools.  [/quote]

I don't want to drag this off my main point which I think is very important.  To answer your question I think those middle of the pack TJ kids would have gotten into those schools regardless of where they went.  Getting into a 25-10 school while commendable should frankly be expected.  Additionally, your life really doesn't change going to a 25-10 vs going to a top 10 which many elite companies only recruit from and more importantly its a huge leg-up going to grad school (which I admit is much more important long-term than where you went to undergrad interestingly the same rule applies going to a 25-10 grad school doesn't mean much vs going to a top 10 where you will have career opportunities that aren't available in the 25-10 range) but not all career paths require grad school.    [/quote]

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