Anonymous wrote:Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students. Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340. Out of 430 students. 79% admit rate to top schools! That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA 191
W&M 142
Michigan 65
UMCP 54
UIUC 48
CMU 36
Georgia tech 35
UC Berkeley 34
Cornell 25
Upenn 15
Duke 13
Chicago 12
MIT 10

Total 680

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Anonymous wrote:Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students. Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340. Out of 430 students. 79% admit rate to top schools! That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA 191
W&M 142
Michigan 65
UMCP 54
UIUC 48
CMU 36
Georgia tech 35
UC Berkeley 34
Cornell 25
Upenn 15
Duke 13
Chicago 12
MIT 10

Total 680

Why not do the same analysis with actual enrollment figures from last year?

http://thebullelephant.com/college-destinations-for-tjhsst-class-of-2017/

Anonymous wrote:Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students. Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340. Out of 430 students. 79% admit rate to top schools! That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA 191
W&M 142
Michigan 65
UMCP 54
UIUC 48
CMU 36
Georgia tech 35
UC Berkeley 34
Cornell 25
Upenn 15
Duke 13
Chicago 12
MIT 10

Total 680

Anonymous wrote:Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students. Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340. Out of 430 students. 79% admit rate to top schools! That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA 191
W&M 142
Michigan 65
UMCP 54
UIUC 48
CMU 36
Georgia tech 35
UC Berkeley 34
Cornell 25
Upenn 15
Duke 13
Chicago 12
MIT 10

Total 680

Anonymous wrote:Based on my read of the list the top few colleges offered admission to 680 students. Assuming 50% of them took the admission, that's 340. Out of 430 students. 79% admit rate to top schools! That's pretty impressive.

Even if you think some of these schools are not "top" you would still have over 50% of the kids going to "top" schools.

Here's my basis for the 680

UVA 191
W&M 142
Michigan 65
UMCP 54
UIUC 48
CMU 36
Georgia tech 35
UC Berkeley 34
Cornell 25
Upenn 15
Duke 13
Chicago 12
MIT 10

Total 680

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

Anonymous wrote:My kid isn’t going to TJ to get into an elite college. We couldn’t afford it anyway. We are aware she’s have been more successful at her base school. She’s going to TJ for the amazing course offerings and the academically minded peers. So far, so good!

Anonymous wrote:Here is a breakdown of # of applications and acceptances for 2017 https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJHSST%20Profile%202017-18.pdf:

Class of 2017 College Acceptance Data
99 percent of the Class of 2017 were accepted to and are attending a four-year
college or university. (Listing reflects schools where ten or more students
were accepted.)
College Apply Accept
University of Virginia 341 191
Virginia Tech 236 185
College of William and Mary 192 142
George Mason University 93 89
Virginia Commonwealth University 76 74
University of Pittsburgh 74 74
University of Michigan 132 65
University of Maryland, College Park 87 54
Pennsylvania State University 58 50
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 68 48
Purdue University 71 46
Carnegie Mellon University 139 36
Georgia Institute of Technology 111 35
University of California, Berkeley 97 34
The George Washington University 56 27
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 43 27
Drexel University 28 27
Cornell University 157 25
Case Western Reserve University 63 22
University of California, San Diego 32 21
New York University 45 20
University of California, Los Angeles 52 17
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 48 17
James Madison University 19 16
University of Pennsylvania 122 15
Georgetown University 37 14
University of Washington 18 13
The University of Alabama 15 13
Duke University 97 13
University of Wisconsin, Madison 16 12
University of Southern California 40 12
University of Chicago 67 12
Northeastern University 30 12
Boston University 35 12
The Ohio State University 15 11
Indiana University at Bloomington 12 11
Vanderbilt University 38 10
University of Miami 12 10
University of California, Santa Barbara 14 10
Rochester Institute of Technology 11 10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 93 10

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

I don't see how anyone could look at that list and find it anything but incredibly impressive. You're creating some kind of strawman where the only indicia of excellence would be 100% admission to the Ivies. But as PP says (who seems much better informed about the actual schools that your brainless reliance on Ivy status) "This is a STEM powerhouse list."

Fine list, just significantly less impressive than prior years, especially last year's list.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

I don't see how anyone could look at that list and find it anything but incredibly impressive. You're creating some kind of strawman where the only indicia of excellence would be 100% admission to the Ivies. But as PP says (who seems much better informed about the actual schools that your brainless reliance on Ivy status) "This is a STEM powerhouse list."

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.

Fine list, just not as impressive as prior years, especially last years' list. It is perfectly fair to make these comparisons.

I don't see how anyone could look at that list and find it anything but incredibly impressive. You're creating some kind of strawman where the only indicia of excellence would be 100% admission to the Ivies. But as PP says (who seems much better informed about the actual schools that your brainless reliance on Ivy status) "This is a STEM powerhouse list."

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or is this list underwhelming? If the primary goal of having a child attend TJ is to get them into an elite college, I think many of those TJ parents to be (and their kids) might be in for a rude awakening. Certainly not all TJ parents are pushing their kids to attend TJ so Johnny can get into Harvard, Stanford or MIT but prolly a large number do think this way whether they admit it or not.

The list is very impressive for a STEM school. About 10% are going to Ivy plus Stanford. But, going to TJ is not going to get you into an Ivy. There isn't a public school in the country that can consistently get move than it's top 10% or so into an Ivy. These are not legacy and development kids. Do you know anything about the USC, Cal Tech, Illinois, GA Tech (this is an off year for TJ and Ga Tech), CMU, Harvey Mudd, Michigan, Jons Hopkins, MIT, UWash, UT Austin and VT CS and engineering programs? VCU, Case Western, Rice's s direct medical school admissions programs. Several kids are going to SLAC that do the Columbia 3/2 engineering program. If this was full of top SLACs, you would be griping about how TJ kids aren't interested in STEM. This is a STEM powerhouse list. Almost all of the schools with more than one are a top ten stem something, or have a special STEM program, like direct med school admissions or 3/2 Columbia engineering.

You don't got to TJ to get into a top Ivy or SLAC. You go to for the STEM program. And their STEM placement is very good.

The TJ apologist appears as always. Always spouts out about ALL TJ kids are wunderkinder just because they attend TJ. You don't have to constantly make excuses for these kids. The fact is, many applied to top schools, did not get in, and are attending safety schools, just like from every other high school. This is just fine, the kids will excel! Don't try to pretend that that's where they wanted to attend there all along because it is a "top school" in xyz. The TJ kids face an invisible quota to many of the top schools...124 were rejected by UVA this year.