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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU[/quote]

is this mess compared to previous year's admissions?[/quote]

It is compared to 10-15 years ago. Back then, TJ typically had 20+ acceptances to MIT each year, 17+ to Princeton, 9+ for Yale, Harvard etc. [/quote]

There are so many other factors beyond TJ that you can't come to this conclusion. 15 years ago Fairfax County was *the* prime location near the federal government. It still is, but there are plenty of new tech-oriented metro centers that are stealing away wealthy families who otherwise would have moved here to go to TJ. Raleigh, Austin, Huntsville, Phoenix, just to name a few.

TJ will never again have the concentration of high-achieving, wealthy, post-grad educated families that it once had because wealthy tech families have spread out. That fact alone means[b] other high schools [/b]will "take away" acceptances from TJ.[/quote]

In the cases you described it would be the high-schools out of state (Raleigh, Austin, Huntsville, Phoenix, etc.). Current situation is the local FCPS high schools (compared to Loudon, Arlington, and of course PW) are "stealing" more students from TJ.[/quote]

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