Anonymous
Post 07/10/2023 10:27     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Does anyone know how many admittances there were from TJ (includes all the cross admits) at these schools?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 14:41     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:Are these numbers unique students or is a small group of students getting multiple admissions offers while others are shut out?


I think these are where kids are going, not where they were admitted.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 12:24     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:Are these numbers unique students or is a small group of students getting multiple admissions offers while others are shut out?


Even at great schools, you can't expect almost everyone to be admitted at top 25 colleges in 2023
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 11:22     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Are these numbers unique students or is a small group of students getting multiple admissions offers while others are shut out?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 11:18     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU


is this mess compared to previous year's admissions?


It is compared to 10-15 years ago. Back then, TJ typically had 20+ acceptances to MIT each year, 17+ to Princeton, 9+ for Yale, Harvard etc.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 10:52     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU


is this mess compared to previous year's admissions?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 10:08     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU


Should we read into the order you have the schools in here? Is this the new 2023 TJ mom ranking ?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 10:05     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
No one abbreviates Caltech as CIT in 2023!
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 10:02     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:How can all these kids from the same school get admits to these top schools? This makes no sense. Usually schools like Harvard accept 0-2 students in a year from one school. Out high school has a lot of exceptional students.


That is because it’s admission process is merit based, got big part of best students from five counties around Fairfax
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 09:45     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU


Wow!
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 09:40     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:How can all these kids from the same school get admits to these top schools? This makes no sense. Usually schools like Harvard accept 0-2 students in a year from one school. Out high school has a lot of exceptional students.


It's supposed to be the smartest and the best high school in the country.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 09:28     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
How can all these kids from the same school get admits to these top schools? This makes no sense. Usually schools like Harvard accept 0-2 students in a year from one school. Out high school has a lot of exceptional students.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 09:05     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2023 07:43     Subject: Re:Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Class of 2023 at TJ was admitted under the old admission system. FYI.


Thank goodness they've adjusted the system. I hope it pays off for everyone, and it very well might given the recent focus by college AOs, though I tend not to fully support such tracked education with tax dollars.

The students admitted under the old process looked good on paper mainly because of expensive prep and test buying but can't measure up with those admitted under the new process because of skill and aptitude. This is just being reflected in the college admission results.


More garbage. TJ kids are scientists, governors, tech billionaires, etc. The results have been spectacular. To listen to you, TJ kids scored well on SATs but failed in real life - but nothing could be further from the truth. The old TJ admissions policies did a fabulous job picking future superstars.

Stop trying to fix what isn't broken.


It was a school that was supposed to serve a whole region and ended up drawing the vast majority of students from a handful of middle schools. It was broken


Yes, wealthy families whose children attended those schools would spare no expense purchasing test access. This skewed admissions and is why they had to make a change.
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2023 08:27     Subject: Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.


This is what I heard so far:

8 Harvard
6 Yale
9 Princeton
11 MIT
5 Stanford
8 Columbia
10 Upenn
18 Michigan
16 CMU
14 Chicago
15 Cornell


Updated numbers:

5 Harvard
3 Yale
6 Princeton
5 MIT
3 Stanford
4 Columbia
5 UPenn
17 Michigan
13 CMU
14 Chicago
11 Cornell
2 CIT
2 UCLA
4 UC Berkeley
2 Dartmouth
8 Duke
8 NYU
4 USC
3 Emory
2 Brown
5 Georgetown
1 Vanderbilt
2 Notre Dame
1 Rice
4 Johns Hopkins
3 Northwestern

In Virginia,
49 UVA
28 William and Mary
24 VT
4 VCU
5 GMU


This is the actual number. Thanks.