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Anonymous wrote:The advise to stay at the base HS start popping up now. Maybe because the announcement is coming up.
Parents please be wise. The discouragement maybe because some wants more chance for them.

For me, it is not about the destination (college) but the journey along the way and so far my freshmen kid very enjoy his first year journey at TJ.

I also learnt that in general, not speaking about TJ, college admissions this year is bloodbath. So many top students from top schools with very impressive stats is rejected left and right, with no clear reasons.

So, please take the advise here carefully.

This is true but so is the advice. Don't go to TJ for college prospects because only the top 10-20% actually improve their college prospects by attending TJ.

Go to TJ because it will prepare you for a rigorous college program better than your base school.

Anonymous wrote:How about you let the kids decide? And get a life.

Anonymous wrote:The advise to stay at the base HS start popping up now. Maybe because the announcement is coming up.
Parents please be wise. The discouragement maybe because some wants more chance for them.

For me, it is not about the destination (college) but the journey along the way and so far my freshmen kid very enjoy his first year journey at TJ.

I also learnt that in general, not speaking about TJ, college admissions this year is bloodbath. So many top students from top schools with very impressive stats is rejected left and right, with no clear reasons.

So, please take the advise here carefully.

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Anonymous wrote:Mclean has at least 16 committed to the following: Stanford, Oxford, Duke, Northwestern, UPenn, Cornell, Brown, Vanderbilt, WashU, and Emory. At least four committed to Cornell alone as of yesterday.

More than 20 committed to UVA, W&M, or Virginia Tech.

Interestingly, at least seven committed to Penn State.

This is out of around 100 sharing their commitments so far.

Then there are kids choosing among HYPSM, Berkeley, etc.

Am sure students at TJ also did well. But just goes to show other schools can do well too.

Big congratulations to all the students!

Rich, legacy, and athletes dominate from a wealthy area like McLean

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Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

I posted earlier about not picking TJ for college reasons.

The above point is stupid. TJ is an entire school of kids who would likely be the top layer at their base school. It SHOULD have higher numbers of kids getting into various schools than a given base school because of that. But for a given kid they likely stand a better chance of standing out for college at their base school - and so being of the the kids picked by colleges from that school - than at TJ.

+1. Much harder to standout to a college AO coming out of TJ. Much harder.

Especially if expecting to graduate TJ at bottom of class with lowest course rigor, when that same course selection could make student be in top of class at their base school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

I posted earlier about not picking TJ for college reasons.

The above point is stupid. TJ is an entire school of kids who would likely be the top layer at their base school. It SHOULD have higher numbers of kids getting into various schools than a given base school because of that. But for a given kid they likely stand a better chance of standing out for college at their base school - and so being of the the kids picked by colleges from that school - than at TJ.

+1. Much harder to standout to a college AO coming out of TJ. Much harder.

Especially if expecting to graduate TJ at bottom of class[u] with lowest course rigor, when that same course selection could make student be in top of class at their base school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

I posted earlier about not picking TJ for college reasons.

The above point is stupid. TJ is an entire school of kids who would likely be the top layer at their base school. It SHOULD have higher numbers of kids getting into various schools than a given base school because of that. But for a given kid they likely stand a better chance of standing out for college at their base school - and so being of the the kids picked by colleges from that school - than at TJ.

+1. Much harder to standout to a college AO coming out of TJ. Much harder.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

UVA doesn't admit by major.

Competion varies by school of majors, Psychology vs. Computer Science?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

I posted earlier about not picking TJ for college reasons.

The above point is stupid. TJ is an entire school of kids who would likely be the top layer at their base school. It SHOULD have higher numbers of kids getting into various schools than a given base school because of that. But for a given kid they likely stand a better chance of standing out for college at their base school - and so being of the the kids picked by colleges from that school - than at TJ.

Anonymous wrote:The most recent year they gave numbers, top 4 schools attended by TJ kids were: UVA, WM, Pitt and VT, in that order.

Why yes, that does look like the profile of the top 5-10% of the base school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take any top national or in-state college and show me an example where more students are admitted from a single FCPS base school than from TJ.

On the flip side, the facts speak for themselves. For instance, UVA had over 40+ admits from TJ's 2023 class to competitive STEM majors. Which other base FCPS school can claim this many admits to UVA?

UVA doesn't admit by major.

Anonymous wrote:Mclean has at least 16 committed to the following: Stanford, Oxford, Duke, Northwestern, UPenn, Cornell, Brown, Vanderbilt, WashU, and Emory. At least four committed to Cornell alone as of yesterday.

More than 20 committed to UVA, W&M, or Virginia Tech.

Interestingly, at least seven committed to Penn State.

This is out of around 100 sharing their commitments so far.

Then there are kids choosing among HYPSM, Berkeley, etc.

Am sure students at TJ also did well. But just goes to show other schools can do well too.

Big congratulations to all the students!