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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I count 73 going to Ivys, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, UChicago and Duke (incl 1 Robertson Scholar) out of 366 kids reporting.  Dang that's an impressive 20% going to elite schools (with 8% or lower admission rates) in the toughest ever admissions cycle.

Throw in 73 to UVA and the kids going to schools like Carnegie Mellon, Hopkins, West Point, Amherst, Michigan, Georgetown and you have 50% of reporting 2018 TJ grads going to top colleges.  Either this was an extremely strong class at TJ or the much discussed TJ penalty in college admissions is overblown.    [/quote]

You also want to add in the kids going to top 10 Engineering schools not named above— because these are first choices for TJ kids: GA Tech, Purdue, UI- CU and UT Austin are all top 10.  That’s another 30 kids.  Plus VT Engineering and WM, and you are looking at a total of 87 more. That gets you to 2/3 of the reports.

And schools like Pomona, UCLA, UMD-CP Engineering, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Emory, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Oberlin, Carleton and NYU are not exactly slacker schools.  The top 75% of the class did very well.

This is considered a relatively strong class.  But still. It’s an impressive showing. [/quote]

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