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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is the Nathan Chen of high schools - all hype but doesn’t deliver in the end.[/quote]

Which high school has (on average) 12+ acceptances to MIT, 13+ acceptances to Duke, 10+ acceptances to Princeton, 30+ acceptances to Berkeley, 50+ acceptances to Michigan, 7-8 acceptances to Yale, 7-8 acceptances to Stanford, 5-6 acceptances to Harvard, 25+ acceptances to Cornell, 10+ acceptances to Chicago, 30+ acceptances to CMU, 200+ acceptances to UVA per year?[/quote]

There are also typically 7-8 to Columbia, 8-9 to Penn, 7-8 to Brown, 8-9 to Dartmouth, 10-12 to Northwestern, 3-5 to Academies, 2-3 to Oxford/Cambridge and 70-80 to W&M. [/quote]

And, for JMHS over 8 years places as many to the elite schools at TJ does per year.  Yet the only requirement for madison is to live in Vienna.  This is 1785 acceptances to top/very good schools, and still over 1000 if we exclude Va Tech.  If we look at where kids went, it is more telling:   Approximately 819 people attended these schools.  On average, madison graduated 450 in that period, so 23% went to one of the listed schools.  That compares to about 85% of TJ.  If you exclude Va Tech, 14% when to schools like UVA/W & M or better.

But, I This means the average TJ students are doing no better than the top 15% of madison.

school #admit  # attend
Brown University: 6	6	4
University of California	11	4
Carnegie Mellon University	24	3
University of Chicago	11	7
Columbia University	6	7
Cornell University	29	15
Dartmouth College	7	3
Duke University	16	9
Georgetown University	25	15
Georgia Institute of Technology	48	10
Harvard University	3	2
Harvey Mudd College	2	0
Johns Hopkins University	17	4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	3
Northwestern University	11	2
University of Pennsylvania	7	3
Princeton University	9	7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	28	7
University of Southern California	19	6
Stanford University	6	5
Virginia Tech	728	296
University of Virginia	414	265
Washington University in St. Louis	23	6
College of William and Mary	330	135
Yale University	2	1[/quote]

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