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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the more complete list that was posted on the other board.  Looks plenty impressive to me in what many TJ students considered a weaker class than the previous class of 2016.

UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled) 
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled) 
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled) 
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled) 
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled) 
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled) 
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled) 
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) 
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled) 
Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled) 
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled) 
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled) 
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled) 
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 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) 
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Interesting data on Georgia Tech.  Great STEM school...popular amongst TJ grads to apply (111).  Even though 35 were accepted, only 1 chose to attend?  Is that a misprint or is that just odd?[/quote]

Off year for GA Tech at TJ.  Usually about a half dozen kids go.  I have a kid at TJ looking at GA Tech, and for some reason there is just not as much interest among classmates  Kids are much more into UCIC, Michigan the UCals, etc. They are also less interest in UT Austin and Texas A&M.  I have a theory, for which I will promptly get skewered and called racist. But based on personal observation, and not intending to disparage anyone, it seems like Asian kids, especially 1st gen Asian kids, are less interested in the South (GA, Texas) than the NE, Midwest, CA.  Not sure why. BUt, IME, Asian kids just are not that excited about Southern schools-- really schools to the South of NOVA, except maybe Duke.  The  is also less interest in Rice than you would expect.

I'm not Asian. And not trying to start a flame war with Asians. But, it makes me wonder is the south is perceived as being less welcoming? Or the schools are not as well known?  Hard to believe w/ Ga Tech. But PP is right.  A lot of the GA Tech applies are that interested.

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I had a kid graduate recently from TJ. Most Asians do not want to go south of N. VA for school and the south doesn't have quality schools at least those strong in STEM. Also, there is enough of southern inhospitality already in NoVA so why go further south for more inhospitality and below average school. As for GaTech, anything that starts out with Georgia is not attractive. Duke is ok but its location hurts it.[/quote]

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