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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, TC seniors have been accepted at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Amherst, Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth, Brown, UVA (three as Echols scholars), William and Mary, Smith, Middlebury, NYU, Washington University, Boston College, Vassar, Michigan, Sewanee, Wake Forest, Bard, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Syracuse, among others.  Pretty impressive, I'd say!  And these are just the schools that my DD has heard about through Facebook over Spring Break.  I'm sure there are many more acceptances out there. TC must be doing something right![/quote]

This is all rumor. And probably reflects a few students with multiple acceptances. It also seems a little odd that this DD would pass along such detailed info to her DM.

instead, let's look at the last good data we have.   Last year TC Williams grads ended up at a few good schools, but the numbers were not very impressive at all.

http://www.alexandrianews.org/2012/t-c-williams-seniors-are-going-places/

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New poster here. While I appreciate you trying to keep TC from being overinflated, I am disappointed in your post. First, it's kind of mean spirited to call the pp, her dd, or her dds Facebook friends a liar. Second, the info is the exact kind of info an academically inclined student would share with her academically inclined mother. Third, the two data sets can't be compared because enrollments are not the same as acceptances. Plenty of kids would apply to Harvard, but enroll at UVA due to finances. And finally, the acceptance info can be confirmed by contacting tc's guidance counseling department.[/quote]

There's no danger of TC being "over-inflated." Seriously, that's certainly not what the pp intended to avoid. The reality is one individual kid who gets accepted to Harvard is also likely going to get accepted to four or five top schools, so it's a valid point that the Spring Break list could represent 20 acceptances for five kids. The odds that so many people are posting their college acceptances on FB are small anyway. It's really not relevant that you're "disappointed" -- that doesn't matter at all.

More importantly, this focus on the relatively low number of and relatively unimpressive college acceptances also spins the truth away from TC's astronomically high drop-out rate. The TC student body on the whole is not a college prep environment. Yes, kids go there and get into good colleges, but they have to do it in a bubble, and that bubble is not, shall we say, an inclusive one. It's a very complicated dynamic.

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