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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students.  Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340.  Out of 430 students.  79% admit rate to top schools!  That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA	191
W&M	142
 Michigan 	65
UMCP	54
UIUC	48
CMU	36
Georgia tech	35
UC Berkeley	34
Cornell	25
Upenn	15
Duke	13
Chicago	12
MIT	10

Total	680
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Why not do the same analysis with actual enrollment figures from last year?

http://thebullelephant.com/college-destinations-for-tjhsst-class-of-2017/

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Including some missing schools to the above analysis and using actual admits from the link above, 237 of the 430 kids end up going to "top" schools.   Here's the list.

Accepted	Attending
UVA	191	62
W&M	142	38
 Michigan 	65	16
UMCP	54	5
UIUC	48	9
CMU	36	15
Georgia tech	35	1
UC Berkeley	34	11
Cornell	25	13
Upenn	15	6
Duke	13	7
Chicago	12	6
MIT	10	8
Stanford	7	5
Princeton	9	6
Harvard	6	4
Yale	8	4
Williams	3	1
Amherst	3	1
Columbia		4
US Military academy		1
Rice		3
Brown 		3
Johns Hopkins		3
Harvey Mudd		2
US Airforce academu		2
US Coast guard		1
		
Total	    716	237
% of acceptances		33%
Total students	430	55%

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So...roughly half the class is accepted to W&M, UVA or both, and roughly 60% attend a school of at least W&M stature.  From a selective magnet that only accepts top students that seems about right.[/quote]

For one of the wealthiest areas of the country with a school that is supposedly the best of the best I am not impressed with these numbers at all.  Less than 1/3 are going to truly great schools.  Most of these kids could get into UVA or W&M from their base schools.  I think this just shows once and for all there is no magic TJ effect.  You should go there if you are interested in STEM otherwise just stay at your base school.  [/quote]

My DC is a 2017 TJ grad who's attending one of those "top" colleges listed above. I have another DC who attends our base HS so I can see the Naviance stats - no one from the base HS has been admitted to the college my TJ kid attends for the last 4 years. So, yeah, going to TJ made a difference.[/quote]

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