This list is very incomplete. A number of schools I know kids are going to are mentioned on here.

And money obviously plays a factor for everyone...people choose UMD's Banneker/Key over more selective schools constantly.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Post the acceptances of the "W" school. BS otherwise.

None of this is official and you probably won't believe me, but (about) 4 kids are going to Princeton, 3 to Stanford, 1 to Yale, 6 to Cornell, 5 to Duke, 2 to Brown, 1 to Caltech, 1 to Columbia, 4 to UChicago, 8 to Vandy, 4 to Wash U, 4 to Penn, 5 to Berkeley, 5 to Hopkins...

I expected way better from TJ considering they're a magnet school and have a bigger class. I have no idea where his classmates got in, just where they're going.

Money plays a major role for many TJ grads and some choose UVA/W&M over Ivy schools but typically the TJ grads attend as follows based on past several years:

About 90 attend UVA, about 60 attend W&M, about 40 attend VaTech, about 45 attend Cornell, about 43 attend Michigan, about 28 attend CMU, about 15 attend Princeton, about 14 attend MIT, about 7 attend UC Berkeley, about 9 attend Stanford, about 17 attend Duke, about 7 attend Yale, about 8 attend Brown, about 8 attend Dartmouth, about 6 attend Columbia, about 7 attend Penn, about 7 attend Chicago, about 6 attend Hopkins, about 10 attend Georgetown, about 4 attend Caltech, about 5 attend Northwestern, about 14 attend Vanderbilt, about 6 attend Harvard and the rest to other schools and service academies etc. so two schools do not look similar.

That's nice but that's not what this data says.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Post the acceptances of the "W" school. BS otherwise.

None of this is official and you probably won't believe me, but (about) 4 kids are going to Princeton, 3 to Stanford, 1 to Yale, 6 to Cornell, 5 to Duke, 2 to Brown, 1 to Caltech, 1 to Columbia, 4 to UChicago, 8 to Vandy, 4 to Wash U, 4 to Penn, 5 to Berkeley, 5 to Hopkins...

I expected way better from TJ considering they're a magnet school and have a bigger class. I have no idea where his classmates got in, just where they're going.

Money plays a major role for many TJ grads and some choose UVA/W&M over Ivy schools but typically the TJ grads attend as follows based on past several years:

About 90 attend UVA, about 60 attend W&M, about 40 attend VaTech, about 45 attend Cornell, about 43 attend Michigan, about 28 attend CMU, about 15 attend Princeton, about 14 attend MIT, about 7 attend UC Berkeley, about 9 attend Stanford, about 17 attend Duke, about 7 attend Yale, about 8 attend Brown, about 8 attend Dartmouth, about 6 attend Columbia, about 7 attend Penn, about 7 attend Chicago, about 6 attend Hopkins, about 10 attend Georgetown, about 4 attend Caltech, about 5 attend Northwestern, about 14 attend Vanderbilt, about 6 attend Harvard and the rest to other schools and service academies etc. so two schools do not look similar.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care?

You sound bitter.

NP - actually, I don't get the point either. Any HS in DC area will have the same schools.

+1
Yawn.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Post the acceptances of the "W" school. BS otherwise.

None of this is official and you probably won't believe me, but (about) 4 kids are going to Princeton, 3 to Stanford, 1 to Yale, 6 to Cornell, 5 to Duke, 2 to Brown, 1 to Caltech, 1 to Columbia, 4 to UChicago, 8 to Vandy, 4 to Wash U, 4 to Penn, 5 to Berkeley, 5 to Hopkins...

I expected way better from TJ considering they're a magnet school and have a bigger class. I have no idea where his classmates got in, just where they're going.

+1 I agree. From so called #1 school in the country, not very impressive.

Also what is not disclosed is the amount of merit-based financial aid provided.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Post the acceptances of the "W" school. BS otherwise.

None of this is official and you probably won't believe me, but (about) 4 kids are going to Princeton, 3 to Stanford, 1 to Yale, 6 to Cornell, 5 to Duke, 2 to Brown, 1 to Caltech, 1 to Columbia, 4 to UChicago, 8 to Vandy, 4 to Wash U, 4 to Penn, 5 to Berkeley, 5 to Hopkins...

I expected way better from TJ considering they're a magnet school and have a bigger class. I have no idea where his classmates got in, just where they're going.

So in general kids there days apply to about 9 schools, assuming the top students got into all 9 these numbers are high because it is acceptance not matriculation, is that correct?

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Anonymous wrote:Although this only accounts for 130 people out of about 480, or only about 27% of the class.

Are they afraid to post the rest? Are they ashamed?

Found the complete "Acceptances" for class of 2013: (9 or less acceptances are not shown)

Class of 2013
College Acceptance Data
99 percent of the Class of 2013 were accepted to and are
attending a four-year college or university.
(Listing reflects schools where ten or more students were accepted).
College Accepted
University of Virginia 195
College of William and Mary 190
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 104
George Mason University 57
Virginia Commonwealth University 40
Cornell University 37
University of Michigan 31
Carnegie Mellon University 29
Georgia Institute of Technology 29
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 29
University of Maryland, College Park 27
University of Pittsburgh 25
Drexel University 24
James Madison University 23
Pennsylvania State University, University Park 22
Case Western Reserve University 20
Washington University in St. Louis 19
Princeton University 18
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 17
Duke University 16
Purdue University 15
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15
Vanderbilt University 15
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12
University of California at Berkeley 12
California Institute of Technology 11
Georgetown University 11
Brown University 10
Dartmouth College 10
Rice University 10
Rochester Institute of Technology 10
The George Washington University 10

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Post the acceptances of the "W" school. BS otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

NP - yes, really. It doesn't look that different at all.

Anonymous wrote:I have to say the # of people going to top schools doesn't look that different from the non-magnet "W" school my son attends in Montgomery County...

Really?

Anonymous wrote:Although this only accounts for 130 people out of about 480, or only about 27% of the class.

Are they afraid to post the rest? Are they ashamed?

Although this only accounts for 130 people out of about 480, or only about 27% of the class.