Anonymous
06/03/2026 19:36
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
No. This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education. Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences. There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world.
And they do get degrees from MIT, but not sending kids to MIT this particular year is far less of a red flag than TJ not sending kids to MIT this year...
TJ send kids to MIT every year, including this year, they just don’t post it on insta, sofar only 30% graduates post on insta.
Also TJ sending plenty of kids to Ivies, mostly majoring in Stem.
Plenty of people don't want to post about their college or other private matters in their life on Instagram. Student run Instagram pages are not going to be a complete record of information for college matriculation data at any particular high School.
Approximately 91% of Sidwell’s current seniors posted their college destinations on the Instagram page. It seems like they’re just proud of where they’re attending college in the fall.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 19:26
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
No. This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education. Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences. There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world.
And they do get degrees from MIT, but not sending kids to MIT this particular year is far less of a red flag than TJ not sending kids to MIT this year...
TJ send kids to MIT every year, including this year, they just don’t post it on insta, sofar only 30% graduates post on insta.
Also TJ sending plenty of kids to Ivies, mostly majoring in Stem.
Plenty of people don't want to post about their college or other private matters in their life on Instagram. Student run Instagram pages are not going to be a complete record of information for college matriculation data at any particular high School.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 19:15
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
No. This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education. Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences. There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world.
And they do get degrees from MIT, but not sending kids to MIT this particular year is far less of a red flag than TJ not sending kids to MIT this year...
TJ send kids to MIT every year, including this year, they just don’t post it on insta, sofar only 30% graduates post on insta.
Also TJ sending plenty of kids to Ivies, mostly majoring in Stem.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 15:07
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
LOUD and very, very wrong
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-washington-dc
O MIT matriculation in the last 4 years.
Wow. That site ranks schools by attendence at Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, giving no weight to, for example, Caltech, Stanford, and Yale, not to mention and a few dozen other world-class schools.
Plus their data is incomplete so it is a pretty worthless site...
Anonymous
06/03/2026 15:06
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
No. This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education. Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences. There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world.
And they do get degrees from MIT, but not sending kids to MIT this particular year is far less of a red flag than TJ not sending kids to MIT this year...
Anonymous
06/03/2026 14:39
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
LOUD and very, very wrong
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-washington-dc
O MIT matriculation in the last 4 years.
Wow. That site ranks schools by attendence at Harvard, Princeton, and MIT, giving no weight to, for example, Caltech, Stanford, and Yale, not to mention and a few dozen other world-class schools.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 14:35
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
LOUD and very, very wrong
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-washington-dc
O MIT matriculation in the last 4 years.
So you are choosing to be willfully ignorant? You’re choosing to believe a questionable website with questionable data over the two young women who posted on Sidwell’s PUBLIC Instagram page that they’re attending MIT.
Go to Sidwell’s c/o 2025 IG page, scroll down until you find both posts, then come back here to apologize.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 14:20
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
LOUD and very, very wrong
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-washington-dc
O MIT matriculation in the last 4 years.
This source doesn't even say where they get their data and they say that it's only 87% complete whatever that means. They clearly have holes in their information.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 13:48
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
LOUD and very, very wrong
https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-washington-dc
O MIT matriculation in the last 4 years.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 13:38
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
No. This makes no sense for people who know something about higher education. Sidwell isn't like a school of the performing arts that has no STEM offerings. There are kids there who go on to careers in the sciences. There's no reason why its students couldn't get a degree from MIT like many other students from private schools and public schools around the world.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 12:52
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
LOUD and wrong!
Sidwell sent two (2) c/o 2025 graduates to MIT last year. I know that many of you love to hate Sidwell, but these are easily disprovable lies.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 09:24
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Does it??? Cause a school not sending kids to a university that specializes in something that the school doesn't specialize in is called an outlier and is generally considered irrelevant by normal people...
Anonymous
06/03/2026 09:15
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...
It tells us that legacy plays a big role in Sidwell admissions. ( schools with legacies: high admissions, schools with no legacy: really low admissions).
BTW, TJ send kids to MIT every year.
Anonymous
06/03/2026 09:11
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Ok???
Anonymous
06/03/2026 09:09
Subject: Public School Kid Has MUCH Better Ivy Chances Than Private School Kid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
DP, but it wouldn't be a big deal for Sidwell to not have MIT since their sole focus isn't STEM, it would be a huge deal for TJ and saying a lot given STEM is their thing and MIT would be a big school they are aiming... and given their class size it makes you question how they wouldn't get one...