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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the final numbers for STA this year: (These are matriculation numbers, graduating class size of 77)

Harvard 6
Yale 5
Dartmouth 4
U Penn 4
Michigan 3
Georgetown 3
Colorado 3
Wake Forest 3
Columbia 2
BU 2
William and Mary 2
Franklin and Marshall 2
Middlebury 2
Northwestern 2
Sewanee 2
GW 2
U of Cal santa barbara 2
UVA 2
1 at Bowdoin,Charleston, Cornell, Princeton, Elon, Hartwick, Kenyon, Macalaster, Purdue, Rhodes, SMU, Stanford, St Olaf, Trinity, Tufts, Tulane, Navy, U of Chicago, Maryland, Ole Miss, St Andrews, Wisconsin, Wash U, Wesleyan

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About what you'd expect I guess, but less impressive than TJ in FCPS.[/quote]

It was 24 matriculating at Ivies/Stanford out of a graduating class of 76.  That's a slightly over 30%.  TJ has a graduating class of 480 -- they would need almost 150 kids at Ivies/Stanford/MIT to match this at the top end, and I doubt they've got that based on past numbers.

This is not to say that TJ is not stronger from top to bottom -- it may well be -- but only to say on this one particular issue, percentage of students going to this particular subgroup of colleges, STA probably did as well or better than TJ this year on the percentages.

However, as other poster have noted, this is also an unusually strong class at St. Albans.  Normally I think the ivies/Stanford/MIT percentage is around 20%.[/quote]

I find the STA stats really impressive. There's no point comparing with TJ - for one thing, lots of TJ kids go to UVA because their families can't afford private college - or private schools. For another thing, lots of TJ kids want Stanford or MIT, not Ivies. Apples and oranges. Congrats to the STA kids.[/quote]

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