Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So whats the point of TJ again and how is it elite if these kids would have gotten in anyway????

and are you actually making the argument that being at TJ is a negative since there are so many elites there

oh boy this should really throw yall into a tizzy lol

TJ basher showing her stupidity time after time...

Nice comeback the emperor has no clothes lolz

Many parents have noted in this thread and others that their kids go to TJ for the educational experience there, not for some pie in the sky hopes of elite college acceptances. In addition, the Virginia state schools are great schools for a reasonable cost, so many times those schools are the smartest choice for kids so they can start their adult lives without debt.

I know a number of kids who went to TJ, the oldest of whom graduated in 2003, and they're all doing great and think their years at TJ were well spent and helped to set them up for success in college and grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh brother. It's the same dang 20 kids accepted into multiple schools.

There is a way to figure out whether that's the case. Take a wild guess......

Most likely true though. Happens at every school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh brother. It's the same dang 20 kids accepted into multiple schools.

There is a way to figure out whether that's the case. Take a wild guess......

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So whats the point of TJ again and how is it elite if these kids would have gotten in anyway????

and are you actually making the argument that being at TJ is a negative since there are so many elites there

oh boy this should really throw yall into a tizzy lol

TJ basher showing her stupidity time after time...

Nice comeback the emperor has no clothes lolz

Many parents have noted in this thread and others that their kids go to TJ for the educational experience there, not for some pie in the sky hopes of elite college acceptances. In addition, the Virginia state schools are great schools for a reasonable cost, so many times those schools are the smartest choice for kids so they can start their adult lives without debt.

I know a number of kids who went to TJ, the oldest of whom graduated in 2003, and they're all doing great and think their years at TJ were well spent and helped to set them up for success in college and grad school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So whats the point of TJ again and how is it elite if these kids would have gotten in anyway????

and are you actually making the argument that being at TJ is a negative since there are so many elites there

oh boy this should really throw yall into a tizzy lol

TJ basher showing her stupidity time after time...

Nice comeback the emperor has no clothes lolz

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So whats the point of TJ again and how is it elite if these kids would have gotten in anyway????

and are you actually making the argument that being at TJ is a negative since there are so many elites there

oh boy this should really throw yall into a tizzy lol

TJ basher showing her stupidity time after time...

Anonymous wrote:So whats the point of TJ again and how is it elite if these kids would have gotten in anyway????

and are you actually making the argument that being at TJ is a negative since there are so many elites there

oh boy this should really throw yall into a tizzy lol

Anonymous wrote:Oh brother. It's the same dang 20 kids accepted into multiple schools.

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?

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.

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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.