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Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

OOS admissions is extremely tough, even for many TJ students who also will have other options, but word of mouth could also be a factor. The UC system overall has had funding issues for years and they place a huge emphasis on research and graduate study vs. undergraduate study in general. With high tuition, some may think it is not as good of a deal as alternatives.

I have had two cousins who were rejected by Berkeley, attend UVA in recent years.

I should have specified that these two cousins are from Los Angeles.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

OOS admissions is extremely tough, even for many TJ students who also will have other options, but word of mouth could also be a factor. The UC system overall has had funding issues for years and they place a huge emphasis on research and graduate study vs. undergraduate study in general. With high tuition, some may think it is not as good of a deal as alternatives.

I have had two cousins who were rejected by Berkeley, attend UVA in recent years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

OOS admissions is extremely tough, even for many TJ students who also will have other options, but word of mouth could also be a factor. The UC system overall has had funding issues for years and they place a huge emphasis on research and graduate study vs. undergraduate study in general. With high tuition, some may think it is not as good of a deal as alternatives.

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Anonymous wrote:From these data posted, McLean is indeed showing its strength in its superior academic quality among the non-magnet public schools. Apparently it's the elite colleges' favorite. Good for them.

Yes, actually surprised at the marked difference between McLean and the other fcps schools' results. I wasn't expecting that much of a distinct difference between nova public hs.

This is demographics, not ability or achievement. Most of the private colleges listed in the McLean’s matriculation list cost around $70k/year. Out of state publics cost around $40-50k. You would likely find a similar list at Langley or Madison.

Probably so. Also, the top publics in MCPS (that, unlike McLean, aren't losing 40 of their top kids to TJ or an equivalent every year) look better than Langley/McLean/Madison.

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Anonymous wrote:From these data posted, McLean is indeed showing its strength in its superior academic quality among the non-magnet public schools. Apparently it's the elite colleges' favorite. Good for them.

Yes, actually surprised at the marked difference between McLean and the other fcps schools' results. I wasn't expecting that much of a distinct difference between nova public hs.

This is demographics, not ability or achievement. Most of the private colleges listed in the McLean’s matriculation list cost around $70k/year. Out of state publics cost around $40-50k. You would likely find a similar list at Langley or Madison.

Anonymous wrote:From these data posted, McLean is indeed showing its strength in its superior academic quality among the non-magnet public schools. Apparently it's the elite colleges' favorite. Good for them.

Yes, actually surprised at the marked difference between McLean and the other fcps schools' results. I wasn't expecting that much of a distinct difference between nova public hs.

Anonymous wrote:From these data posted, McLean is indeed showing its strength in its superior academic quality among the non-magnet public schools. Apparently it's the elite colleges' favorite. Good for them.

Quite a few legacies at McLean

From these data posted, McLean is indeed showing its strength in its superior academic quality among the non-magnet public schools. Apparently it's the elite colleges' favorite. Good for them.

Anonymous wrote:At least one TJ kid going to Berkeley.

About 6-10 TJ kids went to Berkeley in the last 3 years. Has it become tougher to gain admission to Berkeley because UCs are reducing OOS students this year or is the Berkeley number not available for this year?

Thanks, PP ^. Just saw the newspaper as well. Interesting that after initial panic that VT wasn't accepting as many students this year, at least 31 grads are going there.

And GMU seems to have taken a big jump in popularity there as well.

This is the GCM data as reported in the Rank & File school newspaper. Someone asked about W&M - 15 attending. All data is self-reported - only 416 students of approximately 510 graduates.

American U 3
Appalachian State U 1
Baylor U 2
Belmont Abbey C 1
Boston College 1
Boston University 3
Bowdoin C 1
Brigham Young U 1
Brown U 1
Butler U 1
California State - Pomona 1
Carnegie Mellon U 2
Case Western Reserve U 1
Christopher Newport U 1
Clarkson U 1
Clemson U 4
Coastal Carolina U 2
Colgate U 1
College of Charlston 1
College of Mount Saint Vincent 1
College of William and Mary 15
Daemen College 1
Dartmouth College 1
Delaware Valley U 1
DePaul U 1
Dickinson C 1
Dominican U of California 1
Eastern Kentucky U 1
Elon U 3
Emory U 2
Fashion Institute LA 1
Ferrum C 1
Florida Insitute of Technology 2
Florida Southern C 1
Florida State U 1
Furman U 1
George Mason U 48
Georgetown U 2
Georgia Institute of Technology 1
Hampden-Sydney C 1
Harvard 1
Haverford C 1
High Point U 1
Hollins U 1
Hrvatsko Vojno 1
Indiana U at Bloomington 1
Instituto Technologico 1
James Madison U 14
Kenyon C 1
Lynchburg C 1
Lynn C 1
Macalester C 1
Marymount U 6
Michigan State U 1
National Conservatory 1
New York University 3
North Carolina State U 2
Northeastern U 2
NVCC 91
Ohio U 1
Old Dominion U 1
Oral Roberts U 1
Pace U 1
Penn State U 2
Point Loma Nazarene 1
Potomac State C of W. VA U 1
Purdue U 2
Radford U 4
Randolph-Macon C 1
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1
San Diego Mesa C 1
San Diego State U 1
Shenandoah U 2
Shepherd U 1
Simon Fraser U 1
Slippery Rock U of Penn 1
St. Clair C 1
St. John's C 1
St. Olaf C 1
Syracuse U 3
Texas Tech U 1
George Washington U 2
Johns Hopkins U (Peabody) 1
University of Alabama 1
University of North Carolina 1
University of Queensland 1
University of Scranton 1
University of Texas, Austin 1
Tufts U 3
US Air Force Academy 1
Universota Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 1
UC Davis 1
UC San Diego 1
U Colorado Boulder 1
U Colorado Colorado Springs 1
University of Delaware 3
University of Florida 2
University of Georgia 1
University of Illinois at Chicago 1
University of Kent 1
University of Mary Washington 6
University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1
University of Maryland, College Park 5
University of Massachusetts 1
University of Michigan 1
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1
University of Missouri Columbia 1
University of North Carolina at Wilmington 1
University of Pennsylvania 1
University of Pittsburgh 5
University of South Carolina 8
University of Toronto 1
University of Virginia 19
Virginia Commonwealth University 23
Virginia Military Institute 1
Virginia Tech 31
Washington State U 1
Washington U St. Louis 1
Wellseley C 1
West Virginia U 3
Wheaton College, Illinois 2

At least one TJ kid going to Berkeley.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

Like someone posted on the last page, McLean has two to attend Berkeley this fall.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

Berkeley! Wtf...can’t even spell. Hope your dc can.

Nope. She and I are both ADHD, and our manifestation makes us terrible spellers. Fortunately, we are both very bright, despite being terrible spellers. Usually, spellcheck takes care of it. But, I haven’t found a way to spellcheck on DCUM when I post from an iPad.

Thanks for being enough of an asshat to be the second person to point it out. The first time was unnecessary. You know what I am asking. They second time is just being a jerk. Anyone else want to point out I misspelled Berkeley? Come one, come all. Don’t discuss this thread and don’t answer the question. Just have everyone who posts points out my spelling error.

Seriously, do you have nothing better to do than go around an correct people spelling? It is an especially dick move when the error was already pointed out and acknowledged.

I’m guessing you can’t answer the actually question?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ ‘s are in AAP

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/732453.page

TJ’s class of 2018 was super impressive. Even more so than last year.

It is impressive. But last years class was considered unusually weak. This year’s class is considered to be on the strong side.

TJ had no kids report UC Berkley, though, down from 11 (although, like the other HSs, this is self report. About 50 kids are missing). Interested to hear if other HSs had any kids going to Berkley. Purely selfish motivations. My DC2 is at her base school, not TJ, and badly wants Berkley. Is the new. UC cap on OOS admissions making getting in nearly impossible?

Berkeley! Wtf...can’t even spell. Hope your dc can.