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

Are you saying this is over 8 year period? How about posting for 1 year?[/quote]

+1 Do you mean that in all of 8 years, only 2 kids have gone from Madison to Harvard, 5 to Stanford, 1 to Yale, 3 to MIT and 7 to Princeton???  And you are comparing that to a single year's 2017 results at TJ?  College admissions has gotten quite a bit more difficult in the last 8 years so you can't really compare 2009 results to 2017.  Why don't you compare 2017 Madison results to 2017 TJ results?[/quote]

You are complete missing the point.  If the a child turns down TJ to go to the base school, it will not impact the college they go to.  The reason why TJ has such amazing college admittance (and they do) is because they admit only the approximately 5% of the top 7% in the county.  There remain many smart kids that don't go to TJ and they do just as well.

Another way to look at it is the average IQ in FCPS is probably between 100 and 105 -- maybe 110.  But it is a gaussian distribution.  TJ is comprised of about 1/2 of the 2 sigma students (132 and above, or 5% of the population).  But there is a distribution of IQ's at TJ, probably going from 128 to 160. The Advantage for TJ is for the kids between 150 and 160; not for the bulk of the students that would be between 132 and 140.

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You are wrong.[/quote]

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