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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I looked at college acceptance rates for kids like DD at her base school.

UVA 43%
W &M 73%
VT 98%

Stanford 10%
Princeton 4% (I know two kids there)
Cornell 18%
Harvard 8%
CMU  23%

In general out of state state schools:
SEC 100%
ACC 80%
Big10 90%
Pac10  85% (excluding stanford).

These are not that different than TJ students.  My DD is probably in the top 15% of the base school, taking all honors and AP (except for Band/PE/Latin).

By the way, there are a fair number of kids going to the SEC schools because of generous merit aid.  [/quote]

What high school is this? [/quote]

PP is a troll.  What VA base HS has a 98% admission rate into Virginia Tech or 80% into ACC schools which includes Duke, ND, UNC and Boston College or 80-100% admission rates into big conference schools?  Total BS.[/quote]

The key element was for kids like my daughter:  4.2 GPA and 1300+ PSAT's.

The school is madison.  The source was Naviance -- finding schools for student like me.  I imagine they processed the scattergrams.[/quote]

I call BS.  There is no way a 4.2/ 1300 PSAT from Madison gets you an 80% admit rate for the ACC (UNC, Duke, ND, BC— also add WFU).  [/quote]

I was excluding UNC and Duke.  
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I should add, this is for a junior.  And for acc, I was thinking traditional acc:  md, N.C. state, Clemson etc.

The real point is high performing students at the base schools can have comparable outcomes regarding colleges as tj.   I am talk8ng about the top 20% compared to all but the top 10% of tj.   [/quote]

True top students at any FCPS high school will have very good chances at top college outcomes.  But the top 10% out of Madison will have comparable outcomes to the top 50% at TJ.  TJ had nearly 200 accepted into UVA last year almost half the class.[/quote]

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