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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:10 again.  TJ is a great school, but you diminish it when you exaggerate its successes so blatantly.[/quote]

Not so blatant:

Class of 2016

Harvard about 5 or 6
Dartmouth about 9 or 10
Stanford about 9 or 10
Brown 12
Princeton 12
Columbia 12
Georgetown 13
Yale 13
UPenn 13
MIT 15
Duke 17
U of Chicago 18
Cornell University 29
UC Berkeley 35
University of Michigan 61
William & Mary 173
UVA 224[/quote]

1. Those are all acceptances, not where the graduates are actually going to college.  As a result, there is a lot of double counting in there.  If one smart TJ student is admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, then she is listed 4 times in your numbers.

2. Those numbers do not provide an apples-to-apples comparison with any private school numbers we have.  For STA for example, the numbers I posted are just for the colleges where its graduates actually attended, so there is no double counting in STA's matriculation numbers.  Comparing TJ acceptances to STA matriculations doesn't make much sense.

3. Thankfully, we have actual TJ matriculation numbers, so we can see exactly how many students went to each school.  Those are the TJ matriculation numbers I posted above.  To save you the trouble, here are the details: Harvard (6 attending), Yale (7), Princeton (6), Stanford (7).  Great results, but very different from mere acceptances.    https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/tjtoday_senior_issue_2016

I hope that helps provide factual context for our discussion.[/quote]

I have a kid at TJ, so let's be clear that there is an apples and oranges thing going on.   [b]Lots of kids are also being accepted to Ivys  and not going because there is no merit aid and they price out of need based but still can't afford it. .What would attendance numbers look like if all parents could pay fill freight? No one knows. But, there are definitely Ivy admits who go in state or one tier down due to finances. [/b]Also kids choosing places like the UCs and Georgia Tech over Ivy's because of engineering. TJ kids just aren't as affluent, across the board, as they are in private school.  And they may be looking for different things in their education (like a strong engineering school instead of liberal arts).

Plus many kids who go to D.C. privates aren't in NOVA and eligible to apply to TJ.  And again, many TJ kids cannot afford private high school.  So you send your kid to the best school available.

Maybe it's time to just say that it's great that we have such amazing educational opportunities and so many kids do so well? In the DMV.  A Sidwell kid and a TJ kid and a Blair kid are all likely to succeed at a high level academically.  Good for them. Most of them are talented kids who work  hard.  My now TJ kid used to debate against Sidwell in MS. They were impressive kids. I know a couple of Blair kids, and they are also impressive. My kids TJ friends have some amazing talents.  We should be proud of all of these kids. It's not a zero sum game.

You can now return to your regularly scheduled one upsmanship. [/quote]

Many such kids do not even apply to Ivies and MIT because their parents know they cannot afford to send them.[/quote]

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