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[quote=Anonymous][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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If you don't think these stats are impressive then you don't have a kid in a NOVA high school. Don't compare this to each school's overall acceptance rate (which is skewed by early decision/action acceptances and by the fact that most of their applicants are not from highly competitive Wash DC area) - compare it to the acceptances from other area HS.[/quote]

Agree.  I doubt there is any other public school that has similar numbers.  Perhaps Sidwell or the Cathedral schools[/quote]

Maybe some of the NYC area schools like places like Hunter, Stuyvesant, Bronx Tech... maybe McNair in NJ. But the other point is these are all magnet schools.  I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I don't think it's really apples to apples to compare it to the admission rates at other public schools where there is no admission criteria.  [/quote]

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