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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled) 
 Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled) 
 Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled) 
 MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled) 
 UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled) 
 Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled) 
 Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled) 
 WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
 Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
 Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.  So what's the point of TJ again?[/quote]

Have you ever heard of selection bias?  TJ has a huge number of kids applying to "elite" schools, much more than average, good high schools.  That that many kids are in a position to credibly apply to these schools is impressive.  That TJ acceptance rate is no higher than the best kids for other high schools means little.[/quote]

Those kids would have been in a position to credibly apply to those schools if they had stayed in their base schools. TJ only accepts these types of students, it doesn't turn them into these types. [/quote]

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