Anonymous wrote:3 to Wellesley - I wonder if they'll attend.

Isn't Wellesley an excellent women's college?

3 to Wellesley - I wonder if they'll attend.

William & Mary accepts the most number of students from TJ than any other school.

Caltech accepts the most students from TJ than any other high school.

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Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

Quite likely TJ mattered since the colleges know how rigorous it is. MIT especially seems to have strong relationship with TJ because it takes more students from TJ than from any other school.

Princeton also accepts the most students from TJ than any other school.

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Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

Those top students will most likely get multiple offers. Do we have stats on how many students actually went to each of the top schools?

Most TJ students apply to 1 or 2 early admissions that they are most interested in and many get accepted during the early admission process and they do not apply to other schools for the RD because they do not want to take spots from other students.

Yes, TJ students and their parents always think about others.

They certainly do and GCs encourage this practice as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

Those top students will most likely get multiple offers. Do we have stats on how many students actually went to each of the top schools?

Most TJ students apply to 1 or 2 early admissions that they are most interested in and many get accepted during the early admission process and they do not apply to other schools for the RD because they do not want to take spots from other students.

Yes, TJ students and their parents always think about others.

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Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

Those top students will most likely get multiple offers. Do we have stats on how many students actually went to each of the top schools?

Most TJ students apply to 1 or 2 early admissions that they are most interested in and many get accepted during the early admission process and they do not apply to other schools for the RD because they do not want to take spots from other students.

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Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

Those top students will most likely get multiple offers. Do we have stats on how many students actually went to each of the top schools?

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

Quite likely TJ mattered since the colleges know how rigorous it is. MIT especially seems to have strong relationship with TJ because it takes more students from TJ than from any other school.

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Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

These numbers are inflated (see list of acceptances on school website for class of 2013). When you attend TJ, you are amongst the top students in this area. You have to compete against them to get a spot in a top school. I see TJ graduates being rejected from many schools that you would not expect. The acceptance rates may be higher than from other schools overall, but the pool is very different from that of an average high school.

Anonymous wrote:And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

That question comes up often. The difference is that the typical universities top 20% of the TJ graduates get into and typical universities those graduating in the top 20% from a regular base school are definitely different.

The top 20% from TJ will often get admitted to the elite top ten universities (more often than not) but the top 20% from a middle of the pack fcps will typically NOT get admitted to the elite top ten universities (except for few exceptional cases).

If a student will be an average student, maybe it may be better to attend a base school and be in the top 5% and that may work out better.

And, you think those kids would not have gotten into good colleges without TJ?

Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

Maybe because TJ has the best overall college acceptances for its graduates or one of the best certainly in the country year after year and it is not even private. Typically 25+ to Cornell, 20+ to Michigan, 14+ to MIT 16+ to Princeton, 14+ to Berkeley, 12+ to CalTech, 8-9 to Columbia, about 200 to UVA, about 190 to W&M etc.

Anonymous wrote:Question, and I'm truly not being snarky: Why the interest in where other people's kids are going to school?

they're TJ graduates. Interested in what makes it so special.