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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a good question:

How many kids in 4.3 to 4.4 GPA range?

Of the 500 or so kids what is the grade distribution?

< 4
4 to 4.5
4.5+
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I’m not sure I can break it down with that specificity but the top 20% of the class at TJ (about 90 kids under the old admissions system) stand above the rest. Those are kids with 4.3+ GPA and a 36 on the ACT or 1580+ on the SAT - about 30-40 of those kids have a 36 ACT or 1600 on the SAT or both. All of those kids are either National Merit Semifinalists or even Presidential Scholar candidate, which is even more elite (you need a 1600 SAT or a 36 ACT to be a Presidential Scholar candidate).

About 65 kids at TJ get into one of the Ivy leagues, the University of Chicago, Stanford, MIT, or Caltech.  It used to be about 90 to 95 kids got into those schools but the numbers have shrunk in recent years.  About 20 kids each year go to HYP. Princeton used to take a lot of kids from TJ but not many anymore. (Dartmouth almost never takes TJ kids for some reason but that is off topic.)

The bottom third of TJ would still be very competitive at their base school but at TJ they get lost a little in the crowd.  In my experience, a lot of those kids just rebel against the amount of work necessary to be at the top.

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