Anonymous
06/20/2015 17:13
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.
She may have had terrific SATs. If she were working, she may have been a first generation college student which gives additional points. Also, it depends on how recently this was. She certainly must have had very good grades. Was this before the grade inflation?
Anonymous
06/20/2015 17:08
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Is it better to go to TJ and get whatever the benefits of the HS education are (even if you end up in the bottom 1/2 -- which is a very real possibility),
OR
Is it better to go to your local HS (I'm thinking of Hayfield, South Lakes, Edison, Lake Braddock, or even the Langley, McLean types) and potentially graduate in the top 20%?
Which is the better outcome for college acceptances and/or for life?
As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.
Honestly, it doesn't matter. TJ is a great school, not because of the school itself, but the peer group. But the other FCPS schools are top notch as well.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 16:42
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Is it better to go to TJ and get whatever the benefits of the HS education are (even if you end up in the bottom 1/2 -- which is a very real possibility),
OR
Is it better to go to your local HS (I'm thinking of Hayfield, South Lakes, Edison, Lake Braddock, or even the Langley, McLean types) and potentially graduate in the top 20%?
Which is the better outcome for college acceptances and/or for life?
As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.
OR
Is it better to go to your local HS (I'm thinking of Hayfield, South Lakes, Edison, Lake Braddock, or even the Langley, McLean types) and potentially graduate in the top 20%?
Which is the better outcome for college acceptances and/or for life?
As an aside, I know of a girl who went to one of the more middle-ish schools, did NOT have a 4.0 GPA or any particularly scholarly works. Was a cheerleader and worked summers at a local craft store. She got into 11 out of 15 schools including Penn, William &Mary, UVa, and others. I was kind of surprised since I thought you pretty much had to have above a 4.0 to get in those schools from NoVa.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 15:37
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Most of these kids will contribute to medical research, scientific research & application leading to creation of jobs, advance science & technology, improve US economic competitiveness, advance innovation in computer science, tackle difficult mathematical problems, create non-profits to engage in charitable activities, become teachers, contribute to emerging bio-medical engineering field etc. instead of go off to Wall Street or investment banks and come up with ways to scam ordinary citizens despite all the hostility and racism directed at them while attending TJ by ignorant fools in the community
Oh, please. Some will. NOT most.
I'd love to see some real data on this because the ones I know are not doing anything extraordinary.
And, you really think this is about racism?
As far as scamming people, how about the kids who come here exclusively to go to TJ? Like the sad young lady in the newspaper.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 15:01
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Why do you guys care?
Most of these kids will contribute to medical research, scientific research & application leading to creation of jobs, advance science & technology, improve US economic competitiveness, advance innovation in computer science, tackle difficult mathematical problems, create non-profits to engage in charitable activities, become teachers, contribute to emerging bio-medical engineering field etc. instead of go off to Wall Street or investment banks and come up with ways to scam ordinary citizens despite all the hostility and racism directed at them while attending TJ by ignorant fools in the community.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 14:35
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Why do you guys care?
Anonymous
06/20/2015 14:23
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Good luck to the graduating seniors. TJ is number 1.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 12:00
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:
Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3
Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6
This is an incomplete list. This must be from the geographical/State summary and not the individual listing. Some students were left out of the summary. About 422 Seniors are graduating.
Yes, it is an incomplete list (however it's complete for VA schools) - I didn't feel like typing all the schools listed. Check out the latest issue of TJ Today for the full list.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 11:17
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:
Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3
Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6
This is an incomplete list. This must be from the geographical/State summary and not the individual listing. Some students were left out of the summary. About 422 Seniors are graduating.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 10:08
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Only 3 to Harvard? I wonder if more were accepted and chose another school. Hard to turn down Harvard, I would think, except for maybe MIT for someone very STEM focused.
Or they chose Stanford over H.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 08:51
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Only 3 to Harvard? I wonder if more were accepted and chose another school. Hard to turn down Harvard, I would think, except for maybe MIT for someone very STEM focused.
Anonymous
06/20/2015 08:28
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Sara Kim must be posting these stats from TJ Today because most of them are slightly inflated. The real numbers from the paper for some schools:
Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3
Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6
Virginia schools:
UVA - 81
W&M - 44
VA Tech - 38
VCU - 9
JMU - 4
GMU - 3
Stanford - 6
MIT - 8
Harvard - 3
Yale - 5
Princeton - 5
Penn - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Brown - 3
Cornell - 14
Columbia - 4
WashU - 8
U 0f Chicago - 8
Carnegie Mellon - 15
Duke - 9
Rice - 4
Michigan - 17
UC Berkeley - 6
Illinois - 7
Maryland - 5
Johns Hopkins - 5
West Point - 3
Naval Acad - 2
Vanderbilt - 3
NYU - 3
Case Western - 5
GA Tech - 6
Anonymous
06/19/2015 23:13
Subject: 84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
8 TJ students will attend University of Chicago.
Anonymous
06/19/2015 20:37
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Wow - sucks to go to TJ and get rejected from UVA. 
Anonymous
06/19/2015 19:56
Subject: Re:84 TJ kids attending UVA in the fall
Anonymous wrote:Is this available online? I don't see it at the tjToday site.
TJ has been downloading the entire senior issue of tjToday to Issuu in recent years, but with a bit of a time lag.