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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it just me or is this list underwhelming?  If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening.  Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.[/quote]

The list is very impressive for a STEM school.  About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy.  There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids.  Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs?  VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs.  Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list.  Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good. [/quote]

The TJ apologist appears as always.  Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ.  You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids.  The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel!  Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz.  The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.[/quote]

I don't see how anyone could look at that list and find it anything but incredibly impressive. You're creating some kind of strawman where the only indicia of excellence would be 100% admission to the Ivies.  But as PP says (who seems much better informed about the actual schools that your brainless reliance on Ivy status) "This is a STEM powerhouse list."  [/quote]

Fine list, just significantly less impressive than prior years, especially last year's list.[/quote]

My S is a rising senior at TJ and says that the Class of 2017 was not as strong academically as the Class of 2016 which was considered an extremely strong class.  He mentioned that some kids were mistakenly admitted to the 2017 class and many of those kids struggled.  He considers his Class of 2018 to be in between the two other classes academically so it will be interesting if next year's list is stronger.  The x factor is that applications to the top schools keep increasing making it tougher each year.  UVA's applications were up 12% this year.  [/quote]

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