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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard of one TJ kid this year who got accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon (and other ivies/T20/T5 LACs). I heard most of the top students will not get into at least one of the HYPSM…but to get into all of these top schools, I can’t imagine what kind of profile they have. [/quote]

That kid took away spots from other TJ students. [/quote]

That's not how that works.  [/quote]

That kind of is how it works. Often colleges accept a set number of kids from a given high school so one kid getting into Harvard AND MIT could have stopped another kid from getting into Harvard or MIT had that first kid not applied to both. Not to say that first kid shouldn't apply to a lot of top schools - that is within his/her right (esp if the kid needs financial aid). But this is why some top private schools limit how many colleges (or top colleges) students can apply to - the high school is trying to maximize the total number of kids who get into at least one top college and one of the ways to do that is to prevent a few top students from taking all the spots allocated for your high school. [/quote]

Are you sure it doesn[/quote]

Are you sure?

I have some experience with a couple of magnet schools in NYC and at TJ, the acceptance rates do  not seem anywhere near constant from year to year.

You are judged relative to your peers but there doesn't seem to be a Stuyvesant quota or a TJ quota.

Private schools might be different because they are so much smaller with classes closer to 100 than 500, selective colleges might try to make sure they accept at least one or two kid from that school but they don't seem to have a cap.  MIT admissions is not trying to fill a quota of 12 TJ students.[/quote]

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