Anonymous
Post 12/18/2018 11:34     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Meh. Not all that impressive


compared to what?
How many high schools do better?


None except maybe elite privates such as Exeter and Andover.


Roxbury Latin. Milton Academy, Trinity, Horace Mann, N&G, St Paul’s
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2018 11:24     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Surprising ouch on Duke and Georgia Tech. I am wondering what program Ohio State has that is a draw for TJ students.


Ohio State, Drexel, and Case Western all have good 7 year medical programs. The students may be future premeds applying specifically to those programs.


My god, are you so insecure that you have to make up reasons why students are accepted at perfectly fine universities? How about...they were safety schools where the kid probably will not attend.


Or how about, that is where the kid in question wanted to go to school?
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2018 16:23     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
I think it's even more impressive when you consider that almost all of these kids are Asian. Harder to get into the top schools, yet these kids got in anyway.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2018 16:12     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:Meh. Considering that virtually the whole class got a 1500+ on the SAT, not that impressive.


Admission to elite schools is not a litmus test for credentials, particularly in an area where donut hole families are the norm.

Half of the Blair SMAC magnet goes to UMD-CP each year and it's not because they aren't qualified to be admitted at elite schools.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2018 14:18     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Surprising ouch on Duke and Georgia Tech. I am wondering what program Ohio State has that is a draw for TJ students.


Ohio State, Drexel, and Case Western all have good 7 year medical programs. The students may be future premeds applying specifically to those programs.


My god, are you so insecure that you have to make up reasons why students are accepted at perfectly fine universities? How about...they were safety schools where the kid probably will not attend.



The medical program explanation makes a lot of sense for why *these* particular schools (as opposed to similarly ranked schools in the midwest with similar profiles) have high number of applicants from TJ. It has nothing to do with insecurity.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 20:35     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Acceptance data is meaningless. The top 10-20 kids can and do shotgun blast apps.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 20:02     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Surprising ouch on Duke and Georgia Tech. I am wondering what program Ohio State has that is a draw for TJ students.


Ohio State, Drexel, and Case Western all have good 7 year medical programs. The students may be future premeds applying specifically to those programs.


My god, are you so insecure that you have to make up reasons why students are accepted at perfectly fine universities? How about...they were safety schools where the kid probably will not attend.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 16:55     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Surprising ouch on Duke and Georgia Tech. I am wondering what program Ohio State has that is a draw for TJ students.


Ohio State, Drexel, and Case Western all have good 7 year medical programs. The students may be future premeds applying specifically to those programs.


Sorry, I think they're officially 8 year programs, but students like TJ students with lots of APs can do them in 7. But my guess is a lot of the TJ applicants were specifically shooting for these programs.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 16:52     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:Surprising ouch on Duke and Georgia Tech. I am wondering what program Ohio State has that is a draw for TJ students.


Ohio State, Drexel, and Case Western all have good 7 year medical programs. The students may be future premeds applying specifically to those programs.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 16:48     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:Meh. Considering that virtually the whole class got a 1500+ on the SAT, not that impressive.


Why the meh? The top ivys aren't going to take 100 kids from one school even if those kids are amazing candidates with top scores. That's why there is so much discussion about whether you should be a big fish in a little pond, or one of the hundreds of strong swimming fish in a big pond (TJ).
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 16:20     Subject: Re:TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:And this list doesn't include schools that accepted fewer than 10 including the 3 ATTENDING Stanford, 3 at CalTech, 8 attending UChicago, 7 attending Yale, 3 attending Penn and 2 each at Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia. PP last's year class was considered a stronger than usual class certainly stronger than the 2017 class.


+1
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 15:39     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:Meh. Considering that virtually the whole class got a 1500+ on the SAT, not that impressive.


I guess you used to work at Harvard admissions office.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 15:39     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Michigan acceptances are increasing while acceptances to Cornell and Berkeley are decreasing (for the past 3-4 years.)


How many (class of 2018) are attending Berkeley? My understanding is that usually 5-10 enroll each year but TJ Today indicated 0 for 2018.


I personally know there was at least one girl who is attending Berkeley from last year's class but don't know the total number.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 15:38     Subject: Re:TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And this list doesn't include schools that accepted fewer than 10 including the 3 ATTENDING Stanford, 3 at CalTech, 8 attending UChicago, 7 attending Yale, 3 attending Penn and 2 each at Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia. PP last's year class was considered a stronger than usual class certainly stronger than the 2017 class.


So you're telling us that everyone or almost everyone who got accepted to U Chicago and Yale decided to attend those schools since 9 or fewer were admitted? I don't dispute your numbers but it is an interesting observation re: yield at those schools.


For Harvard, typically about 6 are accepted and 4 or 5 ultimately enroll.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2018 15:38     Subject: TJ Class of 2018 College Acceptance Data
Meh. Considering that virtually the whole class got a 1500+ on the SAT, not that impressive.