This list must be available to TJ parents/alum only (I'm assuming) since there's no link.

Anonymous wrote:This must be in response to Top BS school vs TJ thread. TJ parents got beat up pretty badly on that thread by BS parents.

So unnecessary and shows your insecurity, OP.

Hey. It is what it is. That's an impressive list in anyone's book. And my kid goes to one of those boarding schools.

This must be in response to Top BS school vs TJ thread. TJ parents got beat up pretty badly on that thread by BS parents.

So unnecessary and shows your insecurity, OP.

Anonymous wrote:Impressive list. Why are the colleges listed in the order they are?

whomever put the list together listed the names in order of perceived prestige (bragging rights).

I know of someone who transferred from TJ back to his home school (Potomac Falls HS in Loudoun) because "he wasn't used to making B's". Someone needs to show him this list.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Even the bottom quarter of the class is not ending up too badly. With all of the privates and OOS, I wonder how many kids going outside of Ivys got significant merit money?

TJ class of 2015 received about 38 million dollars in merit aid (scholarship). Most graduates tend to follow merit/scholarship money in deciding the final college destination.

This list and the merit $$ is nice to know. DS starts TJ in the fall. He is not going for a college boost, but the college list still looks great. Nevertheless, we will keep chunking away for college.

Anonymous wrote:How about instead of the snark, just congratulations? Your hard work paid off and best of luck in adapting well to your chosen college.

I don't see any snark. PP commented on how impressive list is, said that even the "weaker" colleges were strong, and genuinely wonders whether kids from TJ are getting merit money from private and OOS. It seems like they must be because so many who got into W&M and UVA went private and OOS (didn't almost 200 get into UVA?). None of that is snark. Again-- look at this list- Wow!

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Even the bottom quarter of the class is not ending up too badly. With all of the privates and OOS, I wonder how many kids going outside of Ivys got significant merit money?

TJ class of 2015 received about 38 million dollars in merit aid (scholarship). Most graduates tend to follow merit/scholarship money in deciding the final college destination.

Impressive list. Why are the colleges listed in the order they are?

How about instead of the snark, just congratulations? Your hard work paid off and best of luck in adapting well to your chosen college.

Wow. Even the bottom quarter of the class is not ending up too badly. With all of the privates and OOS, I wonder how many kids going outside of Ivys got significant merit money?

and Univ of Oklahoma offers full ride for National Merit Scholars, so maybe....

Anonymous wrote:When you see schools that aren't really hot schools, do you think the student is getting a full ride? (i.e. U of Okla or Richmond or VCU)

VCU offers guaranteed entrance to its medical school as one program.

When you see schools that aren't really hot schools, do you think the student is getting a full ride? (i.e. U of Okla or Richmond or VCU)

Harvard (6)
Yale (7)
Princeton (6)
MIT (13)
Stanford: (7)
U Chicago (13)
UC Berkeley (12)
Cal Tech (3)
Columbia (9)
Penn (7)
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Duke (8)
Dartmouth (4)
Brown (3)
Cornell (8)
Northwestern U (1)
Williams College (1)
US Air Force Academy (1)
US Coast Guard Academy (1)
NYU (6)
Harvey Mudd (1)
Georgetown (5)
Swarthmore (3)
Vanderbilt (3)
Washington U in St. Louis (1)
UCLA (1)
University of Michigan (11)
Carnegie Mellon University (23)
University of Virginia (81)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (12)
College of William & Mary (32)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)
USC (3)
Purdue (8)
Notre Dame (1)
Bowdoin College (1)
Indiana University at Bloomington (1)
Georgia Tech (6)
Babson (1)
Wellesley (1)
Rice University (5)
George Washington University (4)
University of Maryland College Park (4)
University of Texas Austin (1)
RPI (6)
Rochester Institute of Technology (4)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2)
Olin (2)
Colby Collge (1)
University of Minnesota Twin Cities (1)
Penn State University (4)
Syracuse University (1)
North Carolina State University (1)
University of Pittsburg (17)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (1)
University of Miami (1)
Northeastern University (1)
Rutgers University (3)
Stevens Institute of Technology (1)
Case Western Reserve University (5)
University of Colorado Boulder (2)
Ohio State (2)
Virginia Tech (35)
Texas A&M (1)
Arizona State University (1)
University of Delaware (1)
Oregon State University 1)
Reed College (1)
JMU (3)
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (1)
VCU (8)
Houghton College (1)
GMU (11)
University of Richmond (1)
Washington and Lee (1)
University of Oklahoma (1)

Schools Outside of the US
McGill University (1)
University of St Andrews (1)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1)