Why do you assume that the lower half of TJ kids get significant merit aid? I assume they are treated as any other applicant. There is no special TJ bonus.

someone should bake some humble pie for tj parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Even the bottom quarter of the class is not ending up too badly. With all of the privates and OOS, I wonder how many kids going outside of Ivys got significant merit money?

TJ class of 2015 received about 38 million dollars in merit aid (scholarship). Most graduates tend to follow merit/scholarship money in deciding the final college destination.

This is particularly true for 70-80% of TJ graduates since their HHI is typically between $150-$350,000.00 not qualifying for financial aid and not super wealthy to easily pay $65,000.00 per year for children's college education (Private/OOS) especially if some OOS school is offering significant scholarship money or go to UVA, W&M, VaTech with merit aid which may work out even better in reducing EFC.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a list. No wonder thought to be top school in America. DC area lucky to have a number of excellent high school options.
How many kids per class?

~450

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Imagine grinding away at TJ and then going to....GMU. Full ride, no doubt, but still. A commuter school? Yikes!

I don't think you can call GMU a a commuter school anymore, 69% of freshmen live in campus housing. Yes, overall, 74% of all GMU undergraduates live off campus or commute, but that compares to 60% of all undergrads at UVA, 63% of all undergrads at VA Tech, and 87% of all undergrads at JMU.

Wow, what a list. No wonder thought to be top school in America. DC area lucky to have a number of excellent high school options.
How many kids per class?

For some reason W&M number changed significantly. Typically, around 150 acceptances and around 70 enroll.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Imagine grinding away at TJ and then going to....GMU. Full ride, no doubt, but still. A commuter school? Yikes!

I know right? All 11 kids. It's hard to believe how badly the bottom 2% of TJ's class turned out.

Anonymous wrote:I'm most surprised by the 81 going to UVA. Not just accepted but going. That's almost 20% of the class of 2016 at one school. More than twice as many than to any other school.

They must offer tons of merit aid.

Anonymous wrote:I'm most surprised by the 81 going to UVA. Not just accepted but going. That's almost 20% of the class of 2016 at one school. More than twice as many than to any other school.

not surprising, in state tuition - a Virginia hs grad going to the state's flagship institution -- seems about right to me.
I'm very sure U.Va. doesn't take 20% of the class from any other Va. high school.

I'm most surprised by the 81 going to UVA. Not just accepted but going. That's almost 20% of the class of 2016 at one school. More than twice as many than to any other school.

Wow. Imagine grinding away at TJ and then going to....GMU. Full ride, no doubt, but still. A commuter school? Yikes!

Anonymous wrote:The list is published in the last student newspaper of the year, with student names, indicating where each student is going. It will end up scanned online at some point, but for now just hard copy available for those who grabbed a copy at TJ.

That edition of the newspaper is known as the "brag rag".

Anonymous wrote:This must be in response to Top BS school vs TJ thread. TJ parents got beat up pretty badly on that thread by BS parents.

So unnecessary and shows your insecurity, OP.

Ummm... The TJ college admit list gets posted on DCUM every year. I think it is usually in the AAP forum, but Colleges is probably right too. And it was posted today because it was released to FCAG members this morning in an e-mail. Just like the TJ MS feeder numbers are posted here each year right after FCAG releases them. BTW: many top privates in the DC area also release college admissions lists on DCUM. One idiot did so this year for a boys school (Landon ???) and included the kids names.

And exactly nobody on this thread (except you) has referenced or cares about boarding schools. Stop looking for places to be offended where they don't exist. If you don't care about TJ college admissions, don't click on the link. If this was posted in Private Schools or onto the boarding school thread, maybe it's snark. But it wasn't and it isn't.

The list is published in the last student newspaper of the year, with student names, indicating where each student is going. It will end up scanned online at some point, but for now just hard copy available for those who grabbed a copy at TJ.