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Anonymous wrote:I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.

Why would you conclude that TJ students (or Blair/Whitman/Churchill for that matter) don't have a parent who attended HYPS?

How many Princeton legacies do you think go to public school at TJ?

I always look for schools that do not have any legacy preference as a gauge. MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Amherst, Berkeley (and all the UCs), Michigan. Other than Michigan, there’s significantly less acceptances to all of these schools across the board, both public and private, leading me to believe legacy is a big factor in all the admissions stats.

Aside from the SLACs, you are talking about STEM schools.

The only top STEM school with significant legacy is probably Stanford.

TJ has a reasonable number of MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU.

Does STEM make a difference? Those schools have non-STEM too, and anyway most of the TJ kids going to Ivy+ are STEM majors.

I don’t know how many they really have but I see 0 MIT, 1 JHU, 2 Berkeley and 3 CMU posted on IG this year from TJ. Not many.

You may want to check again...or are you confusing TJ with Sidwell, which has not had any MIT matriculation in the last 4 years!

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Anonymous wrote:Our public is Montgomery Blair, which is considered the best public in Maryland, a well educated state. Even there, out of a class of 800+, 2 went to Harvard last year. Two out of 800+. Give me an f*** break and stop with the nonsense that public school kids are all getting into Ivy's and people are burning money going to privates. I understand that some people are too cheap to pay for their children's education and preferred to fund their retirement, I get it. But stop with the nonsense please.

Blair is ranked #12 public HS in Maryland

First PP doesn't seem to know much about "his public" and is probably mixing up his views on Montgomery Blair (which is definitely not the best public HS in Maryland by any metric), with the tiny STEM magnet within Montgomery Blair, which is stellar and produces like 36 NMSF in 2025 (in comparison GDS/Sidwell who had 3-4 NMSF).

No one is arguing that all public-school kids are getting into Ivys, not when most have a 3-4% acceptance rate, so please stop with the stupid straw man arguments. But many public high schools do have a strong track record of getting kids into Ivies, particularly the public magnets. For example, TJ, which is a public magnet, is the only DMV area school that is considered a feeder to Harvard.

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders

Anonymous wrote:Our public is Montgomery Blair, which is considered the best public in Maryland, a well educated state. Even there, out of a class of 800+, 2 went to Harvard last year. Two out of 800+. Give me an f*** break and stop with the nonsense that public school kids are all getting into Ivy's and people are burning money going to privates. I understand that some people are too cheap to pay for their children's education and preferred to fund their retirement, I get it. But stop with the nonsense please.

Blair is ranked #12 public HS in Maryland

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.

Why would you conclude that TJ students (or Blair/Whitman/Churchill for that matter) don't have a parent who attended HYPS?

How many Princeton legacies do you think go to public school at TJ?

I always look for schools that do not have any legacy preference as a gauge. MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Amherst, Berkeley (and all the UCs), Michigan. Other than Michigan, there’s significantly less acceptances to all of these schools across the board, both public and private, leading me to believe legacy is a big factor in all the admissions stats.

Aside from the SLACs, you are talking about STEM schools.

The only top STEM school with significant legacy is probably Stanford.

TJ has a reasonable number of MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU.

Does STEM make a difference? Those schools have non-STEM too, and anyway most of the TJ kids going to Ivy+ are STEM majors.

I don’t know how many they really have but I see 0 MIT, 1 JHU, 2 Berkeley and 3 CMU posted on IG this year from TJ. Not many.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know about Whitman and Churchill, but TJ and Blair magnet are mostly Asians, so they are less likely to be legacies.
Legacy is a wealthy, white privilege thing.

LOL no. That may have been true, like several decades ago.

Do you realize how many Asians from the DC area graduated from HYPS and now have kids of their own?

Still true. Asians may have graduating from HYPS, but legacy is still a white privilege thing.

That makes no sense.

It does actually. Y'all just don't want to admit your privilege.
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There is a higher percentage of Asian HYP legacies than several decades ago, true or false?

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More black and hispanic too. And they send their kids to private schools too.

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Anonymous wrote:Full pay may be a hook at some good colleges, but HYP? No chance.

No. Facts. Cash money.

That is cope. Those three are definitely need blind.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect there were no legacy or athletic recruits among the TJ admits.

Why would you conclude that TJ students (or Blair/Whitman/Churchill for that matter) don't have a parent who attended HYPS?

How many Princeton legacies do you think go to public school at TJ?

I always look for schools that do not have any legacy preference as a gauge. MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU, Amherst, Berkeley (and all the UCs), Michigan. Other than Michigan, there’s significantly less acceptances to all of these schools across the board, both public and private, leading me to believe legacy is a big factor in all the admissions stats.

Aside from the SLACs, you are talking about STEM schools.

The only top STEM school with significant legacy is probably Stanford.

TJ has a reasonable number of MIT, JHU, CalTech, CMU.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know about Whitman and Churchill, but TJ and Blair magnet are mostly Asians, so they are less likely to be legacies.
Legacy is a wealthy, white privilege thing.

LOL no. That may have been true, like several decades ago.

Do you realize how many Asians from the DC area graduated from HYPS and now have kids of their own?

Still true. Asians may have graduating from HYPS, but legacy is still a white privilege thing.

That makes no sense.

It does actually. Y'all just don't want to admit your privilege.
DP

There is a higher percentage of Asian HYP legacies than several decades ago, true or false?

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Anonymous wrote:Full pay may be a hook at some good colleges, but HYP? No chance.

No. Facts. Cash money.

There are so many full pay applicants with top stats. No chance.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't know about Whitman and Churchill, but TJ and Blair magnet are mostly Asians, so they are less likely to be legacies.
Legacy is a wealthy, white privilege thing.

LOL no. That may have been true, like several decades ago.

Do you realize how many Asians from the DC area graduated from HYPS and now have kids of their own?

Still true. Asians may have graduating from HYPS, but legacy is still a white privilege thing.

That makes no sense.

It does actually. Y'all just don't want to admit your privilege.
DP

Anonymous wrote:Full pay may be a hook at some good colleges, but HYP? No chance.

No. Facts. Cash money.

Full pay may be a hook at some good colleges, but HYP? No chance.

Anonymous wrote:Also, HYP etc will admit a full pay student over one who needs financial assistance, even when their stats are similar or the public school kid has better SAT scores. And who is more likely to full pay? Probably a private school kid. Gotta keep the rich rich. Dollar bills, y’all.

Exactly. Elite schools can still be need-blind but take reliable bets that feeder private school kids will be full pay or close to that. That’s one of the many reasons why the top/feeder privates do so well.

Also, HYP etc will admit a full pay student over one who needs financial assistance, even when their stats are similar or the public school kid has better SAT scores. And who is more likely to full pay? Probably a private school kid. Gotta keep the rich rich. Dollar bills, y’all.

Anonymous wrote:Whoa. I just looked up Jackson Reed because I had no idea what school you meant. When did WW change its name?

Like four years ago. Edna Jackson was Wilson's first black teacher. Vincent Reed was Wilson's first black principal.