So TJ is a feeder school to UVA lol

Look people here is the deal TJ doesn't do jack for you admissions wise

You are just as well off keeping your DS/DD in your normal school

So bottom line if your kid is really actually interested in STEM investigate TJ

otherwise stay at your normal school be guaranteed in the top 5-10% chances of getting into a selective college are almost identical

besides UVA is a safety for anyone who is actually smart :-p

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever the overall stats are, I know a few very happy, proud TJ parents out there this year!

TJ is not unique in having students with proud parents. It may be unique in having parents who repeatedly post Naviance admissions data on multiple threads.

Sounds like a Langley parent.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever the overall stats are, I know a few very happy, proud TJ parents out there this year!

TJ is not unique in having students with proud parents. It may be unique in having parents who repeatedly post Naviance admissions data on multiple threads.

Whatever the overall stats are, I know a few very happy, proud TJ parents out there this year!

Anonymous wrote:That's the list from wikipedia--I'm sure there are other successful people out there who attended Thomas Jefferson who are maybe at earlier stages of their career. Also, Thomas Jefferson has been around since...what 1985? That means that its oldest graduates are in their early 40s--still relatively early in their career, especially in the sciences.

Still, it would be very interesting to see the list, or at least the number of graduates who have earned doctorates in their fields.

Anonymous wrote:It would be interesting if TJ had better acceptances to top colleges than private or boarding schools.

They already do.

Yeah, but those who are "making a name for themselves" in a big way their 30s are few and far between. I mean there really are not that many Mark Zuckerbergs out there--they are a tiny tiny fraction of the population of people who go to elite schools. I mean...if you are talking nobel laureates, most people don't even get a tenure track position until their early/mid 30s anyway. So the notion that one elite school that feeds into elite colleges would have a bunch of famous 30 somethings seems a little ridiculous to me.

Anonymous wrote:That's the list from wikipedia--I'm sure there are other successful people out there who attended Thomas Jefferson who are maybe at earlier stages of their career. Also, Thomas Jefferson has been around since...what 1985? That means that its oldest graduates are in their early 40s--still relatively early in their career, especially in the sciences.

True enough, but the top colleges that TJ students are going to are cranking out a lot of high achievers who make a name for themselves in their 30's, just not any from TJ quite yet. Heck the Junior class of 1990 Eleanor Roosevelt high school in PG County has more net worth than that entire list.

That's the list from wikipedia--I'm sure there are other successful people out there who attended Thomas Jefferson who are maybe at earlier stages of their career. Also, Thomas Jefferson has been around since...what 1985? That means that its oldest graduates are in their early 40s--still relatively early in their career, especially in the sciences.

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TJ places well every year. It's really remarkable that they haven't produced more notable alums. Has anyone looked into why there aren't more success stories!

This is ridiculous. The general public (even highly educated members) doesn't really know that many scientists or engineers (or other highly technical fields), but that doesn't mean they aren't doing groundbreaking research. How many nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, and medicine can your average, say, Big Law partner name? If you are not a biologist or chemist how many HHMI scientists can you name off the top of your head?

You don't have to be able to name them - schools that have notable alums usually made it known.

Decide for yourself, here is TJ's list:

Mark Changizi, 1987, evolutionary neurobiologist, Director of Human Cognition at 2ai Labs.
Ashley Miller, 1989, screenwriter, "Thor", X-Men: First Class" , and "Andromeda"
Chris Avellone, 1989, game designer, Fallout 2, Fallout: New Vegas, and Planescape: Torment.
Anne Toth, 1989, Head of Privacy at Google+, previously Chief Trust Officer at Yahoo!.
Ehren Kruger, 1990, screenwriter, Arlington Road, Reindeer Games, Scream 3, The Ring, The Brothers Grimm, The Skeleton Key.
Owen Thomas, 1990, executive editor of Valleywag and VentureBeat, longtime contributor to Suck.com.
Ravi Shankar (poet), 1992, poet/editor/professor, author of 8 books and founder of Drunken Boat.[60]
Dustin Thomason, 1994, co-author, The Rule of Four, author, 12.21, writer/producer, The Evidence, Lie to Me.[61]
Ian Caldwell, 1994, co-author, The Rule of Four.
Jose Llana, 1994, Broadway actor, The King and I, Rent, Flower Drum Song, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Robert Sarvis, 1994, 2013 Libertarian nominee for Governor of Virgnia. Received 6.5% of 2.24 million votes cast.
Staci Wilson, 1994, soccer player, member of the US Women's team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Anthony Myint, 1995, chef/restaurateur, chef/owner of Mission Bowling Club in San Francisco.
Jonathan Shainin, 1996, web news editor New Yorker, co-editor, The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (book).[62][63]
Greg Tseng, 1997, Founder and CEO, Tagged.
Howard Lerman, 1998, Serial entrepreneur, founder of Yext and Intwine.
Sandra Beasley, 1998, poet, 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, 1999, inventor and entrepreneur, winner of the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2009.
Eric Froehlich, 2002, winner, World Series of Poker, two-time WSOP bracelet winner.
Thao Nguyen, 2002, vocalist, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down.
S. R. Sidarth, 2003, referred to as "Macaca" by George F. Allen in the 2006 United States Senate election[64]
Kathryn Minshew, 2004, CEO and co-founder of The Daily Muse

It would be interesting if TJ had better acceptances to top colleges than private or boarding schools.