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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks to me like about 20% of TJ students go to schools outside the top 25 national universities or top 25 liberal arts schools every year.    Last year about 8% went to Ivies, which was a significant drop from the Class of 2014, about 13% of which went on to Ivies. [/quote]

TJ students are increasingly less interested in Ivy schools except maybe Princeton and Cornell (schools with decent STEM programs) and more interested in Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Michigan, CMU... TJ is a STEM magnet school after all.[/quote]

I disagree that they are "less interested".  For most TJ students, getting accepted at IL is a hurdle, for each acceptance offer from ILs to TJ grads, their are many more rejections.  But the bigger problem is Cost, so that many don't apply or at least don't apply ED where they would have a better chance.  To look at the Need Based Aid eligibility of TJ families for ILs, you would see they are mainly in that category where they could not readily afford full Cost but the IL calculators tell them they can. It leads TJ families to UVA, W&M, VT, where cost is about a third of IL Sticker.  [/quote]

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