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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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)

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

At the elite DC area independent schools, about 40% of their graduates attend an Ivy+ college.  TJHSST is about 15%. Different financial circumstances plus a few recruited athletes make up some of the difference, but certainly not all.  I think the biggest difference is that the private schools have strong students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences rather than 450 students competing for the same few spots in a narrow number of likely tech majors.[/quote]

Other differences. Almost no legacy admits.  TJ students are going to the Top 10 Engineering and CS schools in high numbers, and at high rates.  U Illinois UC for example. Maybe not impressive to you. But number 6 in Engineering. 48/68 admitted this year  So schools  GA Tech, UT Austin, RPI and the UCs have a lot of admits. TJ is not a wealthy student body, so many kids are limited to UVA (over 50% admit rate), WM and VT Engineering (over 80% admit rates each), which is not shabby out of NOVA.  Plus OP completely overlooks places like CMU and U of Chicago (20% admit rate) that seem to really like TJ kids.   Also, it's a STEM magnet.  Yes, it's student body is elite.  But they are elite STEM. If it had a significant number of kids who were stronger in arts and humanities, it would be doing admissions wrong.  So highly kids are going to apply to MIT, CMU, and the UCs over the standard Ivys. [/quote]

How do you explain MIT

For a school that has a base of probably over 2 million from several of the counties and areas with the highest income in the US and is constantly ranked as one of the top 10 publics in the US these stats are pathetic

Something is off......

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