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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

"prolly"?

The person who wrote that post is probably under the age of 18. Prolly is texting and urban shorthand for probably.

I am 42 and use prolly. Let's not generalize.

I'm 52, know what prolly means, but don't use it because it will make me sound like a dumb idiot who cannot spell..

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

Go ahead and post the list from any other school. Start with your kid first.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

"prolly"?

The person who wrote that post is probably under the age of 18. Prolly is texting and urban shorthand for probably.

I am 42 and use prolly. Let's not generalize.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

True but the list and #s attending each school aren't as strong as previous years for TJ (class of 2016 specifically). It might just be an off year for TJ simple as that.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

"prolly"?

The person who wrote that post is probably under the age of 18. Prolly is texting and urban shorthand for probably.

And the person who questioned "prolly" likely over the age of 40 since he/she didn't know what it meant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

"prolly"?

The person who wrote that post is probably under the age of 18. Prolly is texting and urban shorthand for probably.

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

"prolly"?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

Ahh, welcome 124 were rejected by UVA stat person! Ivys are reach schools for everyone. But Michigan Engineering and CMU are not safeties for anyone.

or MIT (8); UChicago (6); Stanford (5); Harvard (4), Yale (4); Duke 7

and this was a bit of an off year for TJ grads for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

Ahh, welcome 124 were rejected by UVA stat person! Ivys are reach schools for everyone. But Michigan Engineering and CMU are not safeties for anyone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

Pretty sure this list is where they wound up attending, not where they were admitted.
Please list another public high school with as impressive a record.

Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

As someone pointed out on the College and Universities discussion, the list is incomplete. Here's the link to the TJ school paper seniors issue that has the complete list: https://www.tjtoday.org/current-print-issue/

Here's this year's list:

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



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