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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear getting into UVA, VT is really tough from TJ. A large majority of TJ kids go out of state (with parents footing the bill!)[/quote]

I agree with this comment.  My kid graduated from TJ last year with high stats but is attending an out of state university (with very high costs) because of rejection at UVA and wait list at VT.  Many TJ kids go out of state for college.[/quote]

Available data simply do not support this. 49 kids went to UVA from TJ. UVA yield is around 40% that means at least 120+ kids were accepted from TJ. UVA's overall acceptance rate is 21%.  That means 583 kids from TJ applied must have applied to have that many acceptance which cannot not be the case because TJ class size is less than 450 kids. So the only way the math works if the acceptance rate is higher - between 35% - 40% ( almost double the UVA's overall acceptance rate). This means about 300 -350 kids applied to UVA which is very very close to actual application number UVA received from TJ in 2022. [/quote]

My bet would be that the acceptance rate from TJ to UVA is significantly higher than the in-state average, the yield rate is lower than the in-state average, and the stats (standardized test) scores of the accepted and enrolled kids from TJ are considerably higher than the in-state average.  I say this because the average Asian admitted to UVA has higher stats than other groups (and by a large margin over other minority groups), and TJ may well have the highest percentage of Asians of any public school in the state.

The 49 kids attending TJ is up from 37 the prior year which is a bit of a reversal of a long term trend of fewer TJ kids going to UVA (105 enrolled at UVA from the class of 2012).

VT had a high of 42 kids from TJ from the class of 2017, but the 7 from 2022 is probably an all-time low.  The percentage of VT's class coming from TJ is significantly lower than it is for W&M and UVA.[/quote]

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