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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Fake news.  TJ sends 60 to 70 kids to UVA each year.[/quote]

[b]I believe it was 72 last year.[/quote][/b]

I thought it was well over 100. Maybe I have acceptances confused with attendance[/quote]

197 acceptances, 72 enrolled.  [/quote]
[b]UVA is a safety school for the top tier at TJ[/b].[/quote]

Yes it is. Those that make it (also MIT and CalTech, Ga Tech, etc.) and can afford it go there.  The real problem is affording it since most meriit aid at the Ivies has dried up.  We couldn't afford it.  So many TJ students go to Virginia Tech.  Many go to UVA.  72.  Our private sent 2 (only 2 got in)[/quote]

A lot of people seem to think the number of TJ grads going to in-state public schools is going up due to cost.  It is actually going down.  It was 179 in 2015, 170 in 2016, 161 in 2017, and 140 in 2018.  Perhaps this year will reverse, but more have been going elsewhere.[/quote]

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