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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My rich white kid with no hooks but excellent grades got in with SATs below the 25th percentile.  Another got in right at the 50th. You don’t need the 75th percentile from NOVA even if you’re an unhooked rich white kid regardless of what you’re hearing. [/b][/quote]

But was he at TJ?  Lots of TJ students fill that 25th percentile because their GPAs are lower than they would have been had they stayed in their home schools.[/quote]

No she wasn't at TJ.  A[b]nd how many TJ students do you think score below UVA's 25th percentile on the SAT?  Get a clue, man[/b].

She attended one of the NOVA neighborhood high schools typically ranked in the middle of the top 10. [/quote]

Man, here.  Quite a few.  Because someone at TJ has to be in the bottom the of class and not go to Ivies, Stanford or MIT, they still have wonderful test scores but lower GPAs than they would have had had they stayed in their home schools.  Also TJ families tend to value in-state UVA because they are frugal and most of their kids are going on to expensive grad programs.  TJ sents between 125-160 students each year to UVA.[/quote]
What a hilarious post!  [b]So TJ parents are frugal.[/b]..a full 1/3 of the grads apply to Cornell with close to $70K/yr cost of attendance.  Being an Ivy, Cornell offers no merit-based aid.  I can't imagine any other school in the area that has such a huge percentage of grads applying to %70K/yr schools.[/quote]

It's 74% asian American.  Most of the families are focused on education but come from MC and UMC backgrounds from all over the area.  Many are applying to Cornell hoping for financial aid.  If that doesn't come through, then yes, they go to UVA, W&M or Virginia Tech for tech.  Most of these families are focused on the expense of the next level:  grad school.[/quote]
Cornell offers NO merit aid.  Need based aid is very close to what the aid calculator tells you.  Most TJ parents would donate a kidney to get their kid in.[/quote]

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