A lot times, same kids get "accepted" to multiple schools. Not impressive at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Nonsense. You'll be very hard pressed to find another high school in America with those stats. There may be a few but not many. And you should exclude the LACs like Williams; TJ's education emphasizes STEM.

You do understand that LACs are not all humanities and arts, don't you? In fact, you are probably more likely to get into a PhD program in sciences from an LAC than from a STEM undergraduate program.

My kid does not go to TJ with the expectation of a "better" college. He goes for the peer group, the research opportunities, and to get an amazing education that will serve him well for the rest of his life. I do think he will attend a different college than he would have without TJ. Maybe not a significantly better rating. But, he is looking at schools that excel at a specific type of engineering, based on his unique TJ classes and research opportunities.

Plus, your list misses the point of TJ. Look at the admissions numbers for top 10 engineering schools. Which are damn impressive. You may not be impressed with schools like U Illinois UC. But you would be if you were an engineer. Similarly-- look at in state flagship admissions. Many TJ kids can't spend $300k on undergrad at Harvard. 65% UVA acceptance, 85% at WM and VT Engineering is not too shabby.

Easy solution: if you don't think it is worth it for you kid, don't send them. It certainly is worth it for mine. Even if the ended up at the exact same college.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

Have you ever heard of selection bias? TJ has a huge number of kids applying to "elite" schools, much more than average, good high schools. That that many kids are in a position to credibly apply to these schools is impressive. That TJ acceptance rate is no higher than the best kids for other high schools means little.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

Nonsense. You'll be very hard pressed to find another high school in America with those stats. There may be a few but not many. And you should exclude the LACs like Williams; TJ's education emphasizes STEM.

Yeah, I'd be interested to see the application and acceptance rates to Berkeley, Michigan, Texas, Illinois, Georgia Tech, and Purdue where strong math and science students are likely to want to go.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?

Nonsense. You'll be very hard pressed to find another high school in America with those stats. There may be a few but not many. And you should exclude the LACs like Williams; TJ's education emphasizes STEM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually I would differ with those are fairly impressive stats. The bigger problem is that so many kids apply to the top schools which makes the acceptance rate seem so low.

Tell me another HS that got 10 kids accepted to MIT.
(and that's low for TJ; in previous years the number has been higher).

If you have access to that kind of data, I'm happy to take a look . I don't have it off the top of my head!

Anonymous wrote:Actually I would differ with those are fairly impressive stats. The bigger problem is that so many kids apply to the top schools which makes the acceptance rate seem so low.

Tell me another HS that got 10 kids accepted to MIT.
(and that's low for TJ; in previous years the number has been higher).

Actually I would differ with those are fairly impressive stats. The bigger problem is that so many kids apply to the top schools which makes the acceptance rate seem so low.

Anonymous wrote:My family never saw the point of TJ as a means to get into top schools. We saw it as a way for our child to be in an environment that is centered on his interests surrounded by students who also share those interests.

My child had a great four years at TJ where he made lots of good friends. He happens to be at a top ten STEM school now, where he'd probably be no matter where he'd gone to school because he's good student. The point of TJ was the experience there, not the "college results."

I think that's right! I just don't see a point in stressing about TJ so I'm not going to

My family never saw the point of TJ as a means to get into top schools. We saw it as a way for our child to be in an environment that is centered on his interests surrounded by students who also share those interests.

My child had a great four years at TJ where he made lots of good friends. He happens to be at a top ten STEM school now, where he'd probably be no matter where he'd gone to school because he's good student. The point of TJ was the experience there, not the "college results."

How about the acceptance rates for other schools such as McLean and Langley?

I have thought the same thing.

Those are shockingly low acceptance rates.

Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this. So what's the point of TJ again?