Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

Curious, what Midwest public school sends 55 kids to the Ivys and more than 1/3 of the class to top 25 colleges?

I count 36 to Ivys, but I don't see Dartmouth.

The OP's list was incomplete. There is 1 attending Dartmouth in this class (as well as Swarthmore, Colby and McGill among others not listed in the original list). The link to the complete list is here: https://www.tjtoday.org/current-print-issue/

19 to HYPS this year vs 26 last year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

Curious, what Midwest public school sends 55 kids to the Ivys and more than 1/3 of the class to top 25 colleges?

I count 36 to Ivys, but I don't see Dartmouth.

DP. I believe the PP said Ivy's, Stanford or MIT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

Curious, what Midwest public school sends 55 kids to the Ivys and more than 1/3 of the class to top 25 colleges?

I count 36 to Ivys, but I don't see Dartmouth.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

Probably both. We don't have this year's accepted/admitted numbers, but generally more than 300 kids apply and about 2/3 get in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

I think a little of both. UVA is no longer a safety school for TJ students and now accepts less than 2/3 of those who apply from TJ (still a very high %). This class was also considered not as strong as the previous 2016 class which had 81 going to UVA.

That's wild, because my understanding from talking to a co-worker whose kid recently went through the admissions process is that getting into TJ itself is a much, much more competitive and high-pressure thing than it was back when I went there. My own kids are in preschool so I haven't really focused on this, but it really brings home for me how much more competitive everything is for teens now. I'm not looking forward to what it will be like for my kids in 10 or 15 more years.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

I think a little of both. UVA is no longer a safety school for TJ students and now accepts less than 2/3 of those who apply from TJ (still a very high %). This class was also considered not as strong as the previous 2016 class which had 81 going to UVA.

Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

Anonymous wrote:Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

Curious, what Midwest public school sends 55 kids to the Ivys and more than 1/3 of the class to top 25 colleges?

Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

The list is incomplete (for ex, Dartmouth has 1, McGill 1). Here's the link to the actual list published in the latest issue of TJ Today: https://www.tjtoday.org/current-print-issue/

Still a solid list. 54 going to Ivys, Stanford and MIT out of a class of 437 is still pretty impressive in this age of uber-competitive admissions to top colleges.

Results appear somewhat less impressive than last year's 2016 class.

Meh.

Here's this year's list of college destinations for TJHSST seniors:

TJ class of 2017

VA

UVA – 62 students

Virginia Tech 42

William and Mary 38

VCU 10

GMU 7

VA Military Inst 1

JMU 1

Marymount 1

Randolph-Macon 1

Richmond 1



MD

John Hopkins Univ 3

US Naval Academy 1

Univ of MD College Park 5



DC

American Univ 1

Georgetown 5

George Washington 1


MA

Amherst 1

Boston 1

Harvard 4

MIT 8

Northeastern 4

Wentworth Inst Tech 1

Williams College 1

Worcester Pol Institute 1



Yale 4

US Coast Guard 1

Wesleyan 1



CalTech 1

Claremont McKenna 2

Harvey Mudd 2

Stanford 5

UC Berkeley 11

UCLA 2

UCSD 1

UC SCruz 1

USC 4



Rice 3

Texas A&M 1

The Univ TX, Austin 1



Case Western 3

The Ohio State 2



U Chicago 6

U Illinois, Urbana 9

Loyola 1



Duke 7

NC State Univ 1

Univ NC Chapel Hill 1



CMU 15

UPenn 6

Penn State 5

Univ of Pittsburgh 10



Columbia 4

Cornell 13

NY Univ 8

RIT 2

US Military Academy 1

Adelphi Univ 1

Pratt Inst 1

Rensselaer Poly Inst 3



NJ Inst Tech 1

Princeton 6

Rutgers Univ 5



Indiana Univ Bloomington 3

Purdue 7

Univ of Notre Dame 3



US Airforce Academy 2

Univ Colorado at Boulder 1



Univ of Michigan 16

Brown 3

Wash Univ in St. Louis 4

Univ of Wisconsin 3

Vanderbilt 3



Georgia Inst Tech 1

Emory 1

Univ of AL 1

Univ of Iowa 1

Univ of Oklahoma 1

Univ of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1

Tulane 1

Brigham Young Univ 1

Univ of Wash 1