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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.[/quote]
Why would you conclude that TJ students (or Blair/Whitman/Churchill for that matter) don't have a parent who attended HYPS?[/quote]

How many Princeton legacies do you think go to public school at TJ?[/quote]

I always look for schools that do not have any legacy preference as a gauge. MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Amherst, Berkeley (and all the UCs), Michigan. Other than Michigan, there’s significantly less acceptances to all of these schools across the board, both public and private, leading me to believe legacy is a big factor in all the admissions stats. [/quote]

Aside from the SLACs, you are talking about STEM schools.

The only top STEM school with significant legacy is probably Stanford.

TJ has a reasonable number of MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU.[/quote]

Does STEM make a difference? Those schools have non-STEM too, and anyway most of the TJ kids going to Ivy+ are STEM majors.

I don’t know how many they really have but I see 0 MIT, 1 JHU, 2 Berkeley and 3 CMU posted on IG this year from TJ. Not many. [/quote]
You may want to check again...or are you confusing TJ with Sidwell, which has not had any MIT matriculation in the last 4 years![/quote]

DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...[/quote]

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