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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all realize that a student who selected College X might have gotten into 10+ other schools, right? The destinations are in no way indicative of TJ admissions to colleges overall.[/quote]

Of course it's indicative of where they got in.

Sure there are corner cases, but by and large it is pretty indicative of the best schools they got into.

You don't have 20 kids that are going to GMU that got into VT but just couldn't afford it.  And they certainly didn't get into Ivy+.[/quote]

You don’t know that. Kids apply for a variety of college, hoping to get in and get enough aid to attend. Maybe they get in but they don’t get the aid. Maybe they get i but their parents financial picture has changed and they can no longer afford it.

Maybe they choose GMU for cost purposes and because they need to be around to help take care of siblings or a family business.

Plenty of people realize that the prestige of the school is not the only reason to attend the school and have other criteria that they are looking at. The FARMs rate at TJ went up, so it makes sense that some kids would be looking for good colleges that are more affordable. The Ivies and other schools might not be affordable even with aid. You have to pay for books, housing, food, and other expenses. You can attend GMU and live at home.

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For any individual, there are all sorts of factors that can come into play but when dealing with large groups, the law of large numbers starts to kick in and kids will select a good option over a less good option.

Perhaps there is a kid in there somewhere that picked GMU over VT but not many and there are NONE that picked GMU over any of the ivy+ schools.  We lost a lot of kids going to top 20 schools and gained a lot of kids going to GMU.  And we don't have as many poor kids as you think.  We admitted 25% FARM but I doubt we have 15% in the graduating class.  Many of them returned to their base school.

Once again, GMU is a good school but it's less good than VT, UVA or ivy+[/quote]

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