Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No Georgetown?

Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)

Do you have Pomona, Bowdoin, Mudd, and Claremont McKenna?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.

My kid doesn't go to TJ and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think that what your missing is that kids in the middle of the pack at TJ are going to incredibly good schools.

I don't want to drag this off my main point which I think is very important. To answer your question I think those middle of the pack TJ kids would have gotten into those schools regardless of where they went. Getting into a 25-10 school while commendable should frankly be expected. Additionally, your life really doesn't change going to a 25-10 vs going to a top 10 which many elite companies only recruit from and more importantly its a huge leg-up going to grad school (which I admit is much more important long-term than where you went to undergrad interestingly the same rule applies going to a 25-10 grad school doesn't mean much vs going to a top 10 where you will have career opportunities that aren't available in the 25-10 range) but not all career paths require grad school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Many donut hole families don't apply. THEY DO NOT EVEN APPLY. Even if their kids are qualified to attend elite schools.

When will DCUM understand that application and admissions to elite schools is not shorthand for how qualified a given student is?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.

My kid doesn't go to TJ and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think that what your missing is that kids in the middle of the pack at TJ are going to incredibly good schools.

You really have no idea where those kids would have gone had they stayed at the base school, so again this is a pretty silly argument.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.

My kid doesn't go to TJ and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think that what your missing is that kids in the middle of the pack at TJ are going to incredibly good schools.

Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Those are not impressive stats at all. Those percentages are the typical acceptance rates for these schools period. TJ is not adding any benefit to college admissions. As the "best" high school in NOVA I'm really surprised about this.

Anonymous wrote:No Georgetown?

Georgetown (38 applied, 14 accepted, 6 enrolled)

No Georgetown?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

The data is all there take the accepted/applied its 10% or less for the elite schools

Anonymous wrote:This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

This assumes that all TJ students apply to elite schools. If TJ is anything like Blair, I'm guessing that's not the case. Many donut hole families don't apply because they cannot afford to send their qualified kids there.

This just proves to me that elite college acceptance is a crap shoot these days

Look at the acceptance rates for the top 10 schools they are all around 10% or less that's nuts

I bet the people that did get accepted got multiple schools so the reality is even at TJ the chance of you getting into an elite top 10 school is 5% or less which is crazy

I don't want to derail the thread but anyone thinking TJ has a leg up on college admissions this shows otherwise.

Class of 2017 college admission stats were just posted on TJ's Naviance site.

Highlights:
UVA (342 applied, 191 accepted, 65 enrolled)
William & Mary (192 applied, 142 applied, 37 enrolled)
Virginia Tech (236 applied, 185 accepted, 44 enrolled)
Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
UC Berkeley (97 applied, 34 accepted, 11 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Carnegie Mellon (140 applied, 36 accepted, 15 enrolled)
UChicago (67 applied, 12 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Columbia (90 applied, 9 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Cornell (157 applied, 25 accepted, 13 enrolled)
Dartmouth (41 applied, 5 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Duke (97 applied, 13 accepted, 7 enrolled)
Georgia Tech (111 applied, 35 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Johns Hopkins (61 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
MIT (93 applied, 10 accepted, 8 enrolled)
UMichigan (132 applied, 65 accepted, 17 enrolled)
UNC Chapel Hill (48 applied, 17 accepted, 1 enrolled)
UPenn (122 applied, 15 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Princeton (106 applied, 9 accepted, 6 enrolled)
Swarthmore (19 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Stanford (121 applied, 7 accepted, 5 enrolled)
WashU (50 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Williams (9 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Yale (72 applied, 8 accepted, 4 enrolled)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:remember folks -- this is where students have decided to go. Not where they were admitted (presumably most were admitted to more than one school). So the Ivy admit numbers will be higher than the enrolled numbers. Know what you are looking at before you comment.

Yup. Here's the Class of 2016 Acceptamces data. However, only schools with 10 or more students were accepted are included. Naviance fills in the test of the blanks.

https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202016-17%20online.pdf

Naviance data for FCPS is down. Maybe updating w/2017 stats?

It's up for TJ. No 2017 stats.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:remember folks -- this is where students have decided to go. Not where they were admitted (presumably most were admitted to more than one school). So the Ivy admit numbers will be higher than the enrolled numbers. Know what you are looking at before you comment.

Yup. Here's the Class of 2016 Acceptamces data. However, only schools with 10 or more students were accepted are included. Naviance fills in the test of the blanks.

https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202016-17%20online.pdf

Naviance data for FCPS is down. Maybe updating w/2017 stats?

Anyone know when the 2017 acceptance (not matriculation) data will be released?