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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ parent whiners here out in force here.  "My kid can't possibly find the time to fill out the application to this school!"
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I'm sure VT is fine with this.  Historically, huge numbers of TJ students applied and only a few enrolled.  Let Pitt get accept them and lose them instead.  If a kid is actually interested in VT they can suffer the extreme agony of having to fill out the application.  The TJ kids I know could whip off the essays in half an hour.[/quote]

I think it would be silly for VT to be fine with this.  VT emphasizes its strength in STEM (and this helped land Amazon), particularly Engineering, and TJ is perhaps the premier STEM high school in the country, and less than 3 per 1,000 kids in the entering class are coming from TJ.    VT should be working hard to get more kids from TJ.[/quote]

You would think.   Once you get out of the “elite” category,  there is a phenomenon where colleges want to be able to say they regularly enroll TJ kids because that makes the college look good.  SLACs and schools like Wake Forest get virtually no applications or acceptances, have been recruiting and can’t seem to get traction.  They aren’t traditionally thought of as STEM powerhouses, and want to build that up. And getting TJ and Stuy kids does that.  Pitt learned it. CWRU has thrown a lot of money at TJ and is getting traction.

Name matters. Harvard matters. MIT matters. And if you want to impress people in STEM, TJ matters.

And yeah, the whole NOVA pipeline of STEM grads landed Amazon. The state has committed a billion dollars from K though college to building the “STEM pipeline”. They aren’t going to let VT keep losing ground for long. [/quote]

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