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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

Probably both. We don't have this year's accepted/admitted numbers, but generally more than 300 kids apply and about 2/3 get in.

My son is considering attending TJ and we'd be looking at attending an instate college after that. Does attending TJ help/hurt his chances to get into UVA for ex? And is it fact that 2/3 of TJ applicants get accepted to UVA?

You can see college application data (for schools with >10 acceptances) for class of 2016 here
https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/media/300/resource/TJ%20Profile%202016-17%20online.pdf

About the top half of class at TJ can get into UVA. W&M really loves TJ students and will take >90% who apply.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

Probably both. We don't have this year's accepted/admitted numbers, but generally more than 300 kids apply and about 2/3 get in.

My son is considering attending TJ and we'd be looking at attending an instate college after that. Does attending TJ help/hurt his chances to get into UVA for ex? And is it fact that 2/3 of TJ applicants get accepted to UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:Where is the 70-80% coming from? I count these colleges as the elites for schools with at least one student admitted. I'm getting 17% enrolling at an elite, which is impressive but not that different from other top public schools.

Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 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)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Harvey Mudd (14 applied, 4 admitted, 2 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)

Why so many Brown? I thought it was a crazy lefty college where everyone smokes weed all day with layabout trustfunders...

Anonymous wrote:Looks similar to the data from my public HS in the Midwest. I'm not that impressed.

Anonymous wrote:Where is the 70-80% coming from? I count these colleges as the elites for schools with at least one student admitted. I'm getting 17% enrolling at an elite, which is impressive but not that different from other top public schools.

Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 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)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Harvey Mudd (14 applied, 4 admitted, 2 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)

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, I graduated from TJ almost two decades ago and I think more than 100 people in my class went to U.Va. I wonder if it's harder to get in now or if more TJ students are turning U.Va down.

Probably both. We don't have this year's accepted/admitted numbers, but generally more than 300 kids apply and about 2/3 get in.

Anonymous wrote:Where is the 70-80% coming from? I count these colleges as the elites for schools with at least one student admitted. I'm getting 17% enrolling at an elite, which is impressive but not that different from other top public schools.

Amherst (6 applied, 3 accepted, 1 enrolled)
Brown (68 applied, 8 accepted, 3 enrolled)
CalTech (26 applied, 4 accepted, 1 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)
Harvard (91 applied, 6 accepted, 4 enrolled)
Harvey Mudd (14 applied, 4 admitted, 2 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)

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP from the midpoint of this thread

Glad I finally got some reinforcements I got tired of arguing with that one poster the other day

just to echo prior poster

The chances of you getting into an elite top 20 college out of TJ are between 5-10% which is the actual acceptance rate of the greater applicant pool to these schools overall, draw whatever conclusions you want to my original point still stands

You must be blind.

And doesn't understand percentages.

And envious of TJ having one of the best if not the best college admissions in the country.

Have you been paying attention? Not supported by the facts.

Look for your self:

College/University Overall acceptance rate 2016/2017 TJ acceptance rate 2017

Amherst 13.7% (2016) 50%
Brown 8.3% 11.7%
Columbia 5.8% 10%
Cornell 12.5% 15.9%
Dartmouth 10.4% 12.1%
Duke 9% 13.4%
Georgetown 15% 36.8%
Harvard 5.2% 6.6%
Johns Hopkins 11.8% 13.1%
MIT 7.1% 10.7%
Princeton 6.1% 8.4%
Stanford 4.65% 5.7%
Chicago 7.9% (2016) 17.9%
Penn 9.15% 12.2%
Yale 6.9% 11.1%
UC Berkeley 17.8% 35%
Michigan 26% 49.2%

lol thanks for making my point again again and again

besides a couple outliers (mainly on the lower top 25 programs) the rates are within 1-3% points. that's nothing to crow about

Provided with facts, you refuse to see facts and now wants some wiggle room!

um right the top 15 schools are all pretty much in the 5-10% range which was my original point there buddy sorry for your failure at life

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP from the midpoint of this thread

Glad I finally got some reinforcements I got tired of arguing with that one poster the other day

just to echo prior poster

The chances of you getting into an elite top 20 college out of TJ are between 5-10% which is the actual acceptance rate of the greater applicant pool to these schools overall, draw whatever conclusions you want to my original point still stands

You must be blind.

And doesn't understand percentages.

And envious of TJ having one of the best if not the best college admissions in the country.

Have you been paying attention? Not supported by the facts.

Look for your self:

College/University Overall acceptance rate 2016/2017 TJ acceptance rate 2017

Amherst 13.7% (2016) 50%
Brown 8.3% 11.7%
Columbia 5.8% 10%
Cornell 12.5% 15.9%
Dartmouth 10.4% 12.1%
Duke 9% 13.4%
Georgetown 15% 36.8%
Harvard 5.2% 6.6%
Johns Hopkins 11.8% 13.1%
MIT 7.1% 10.7%
Princeton 6.1% 8.4%
Stanford 4.65% 5.7%
Chicago 7.9% (2016) 17.9%
Penn 9.15% 12.2%
Yale 6.9% 11.1%
UC Berkeley 17.8% 35%
Michigan 26% 49.2%

lol thanks for making my point again again and again

besides a couple outliers (mainly on the lower top 25 programs) the rates are within 1-3% points. that's nothing to crow about

Provided with facts, you refuse to see facts and now wants some wiggle room!

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP from the midpoint of this thread

Glad I finally got some reinforcements I got tired of arguing with that one poster the other day

just to echo prior poster

The chances of you getting into an elite top 20 college out of TJ are between 5-10% which is the actual acceptance rate of the greater applicant pool to these schools overall, draw whatever conclusions you want to my original point still stands

You must be blind.

And doesn't understand percentages.

And envious of TJ having one of the best if not the best college admissions in the country.

Have you been paying attention? Not supported by the facts.

Look for your self:

College/University Overall acceptance rate 2016/2017 TJ acceptance rate 2017

Amherst 13.7% (2016) 50%
Brown 8.3% 11.7%
Columbia 5.8% 10%
Cornell 12.5% 15.9%
Dartmouth 10.4% 12.1%
Duke 9% 13.4%
Georgetown 15% 36.8%
Harvard 5.2% 6.6%
Johns Hopkins 11.8% 13.1%
MIT 7.1% 10.7%
Princeton 6.1% 8.4%
Stanford 4.65% 5.7%
Chicago 7.9% (2016) 17.9%
Penn 9.15% 12.2%
Yale 6.9% 11.1%
UC Berkeley 17.8% 35%
Michigan 26% 49.2%

lol thanks for making my point again again and again

besides a couple outliers (mainly on the lower top 25 programs) the rates are within 1-3% points. that's nothing to crow about

Anonymous wrote:If doubling down and tripling down don't work, why not just quadruple down?

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