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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless your child is in the top 10% of the TJ class, it probably hurts more than it helps.  UVA does not want 250 kids from TJ.  But they will take 70 from Madison, Mclean, Langley. (and 150 from TJ).  Presumably any kid at TJ could be in the top 70 students at the base school[/quote]

Average for the past five years or so is close to 200 acceptances not 150 from TJ.  70 sounds high for other schools as well.  Anyway, UVA is a backup at TJ. [/quote]

News flash: UVA is a back up school for most top performing kids at a base school too.[/quote]

+1,000 if you do a direct comparison between TJ and the top 10% at tier one Fairfax County schools and the top 5% at tier two schools there is no difference between college preference attendance or acceptance[/quote]

Yes there is.[/quote]

+1.  It may shake out the same for UVA and WM and generic Ivy’s. But there is a huge difference for VT Engineering, top 10 Engineering schools (UCs, U of M, U GA, Cornell, U Illinois, Carnegie Melon).

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

MIT.    8
Stanford.        5
UC Berkeley. 11
Cal Tech.  1
GT.          1
U Illinois.   9
U of M.      16
CMU.          15
Purdue.       7
Cornell.        13

Also, Mudd. 2

That’s about 80 kids to top 10 Engineering schools, or 20% of the class

VT is 14th in the nation in engineering, and had 42 kids.  Some of who got into U of M or Purdue or Cornell, but didn’t want to pay the price difference.

Top 10 Engineering plus VT is 102 kids.

So if you are serious about STEM, TJ can help a lot.

And BTW Top 10 Engineering  plus VT, then add UVA & WM, and that’s half the class.  Add in Ivys and Top 20 colleges, and you have 2/3 of the class.  And so on.

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