Anonymous wrote:I used to work in admissions at a small, selective liberal arts school. The name gets thrown around here quite a bit. The posters who want to know what happens with the middle of the class is thinking in the right direction.

What is often not discussed on these boards is what happens with the bottom third of the class at these schools. The top third is fine. They are getting into Ivies and other top schools. The middle third usually ends up at other good-ish (by DCUM standards) selective schools. That bottom third ends up all over the place and it usually isn't great.

The college counselors at schools (StA's is in that bunch) would call us practically begging on some of the students, but we can always tell who is at the bottom of a class. Selective schools get somewhat snobby when independent schools try to push their bottom third on them and usually WL or flat out deny those students. For example, a school like Davidson may WL StA's top boy bc they know he is a double Harvard legacy and his record is Strong enough to get in, so he isn't coming to Davidson. It isnt worth wasting an admit on that student. Then, they admit the kid in the middle third who is strong and has expressed high interest. When the kid in the bottom third applies, they have to deny him since they did not admit the top boy. Even if they need another boy, they will take him from another school at that point so that decisions seem somewhat consistent within a single school community.

If I had a child who was average, by the standards of a school like StA, I would send him elsewhere. Probably public, because it is not worth the cost if the child won't even end up at a top school. Save the money to give to the child for graduate school.

Anonymous wrote:TJ is not a private school. This is the private school forum.

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Anonymous wrote:And it has to be the student's primary residence, not some apartment you rent just to qualify while you actually live in maryland. People have tried this ruse.

really, what would I do without you pointing this out being that I was born yesterday and all. Gee, thanks. I don't think we'll move to the edge of oblivion ( the outer loop) just to qualify to take the TJ admissions exam. Thanks anyway.

Anonymous wrote:And it has to be the student's primary residence, not some apartment you rent just to qualify while you actually live in maryland. People have tried this ruse.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to reside VA (Fairfax Count or one of its surrounding counties) to be eligible for admission to TJ.

Oh well, THAT is not going to happen. Do you have to reside in the couny to take the admissions exam ( assuming that there is one) ?

Anonymous wrote:You need to reside VA (Fairfax Count or one of its surrounding counties) to be eligible for admission to TJ.

Anonymous wrote:Students with mastery of mathematics, physics and computer science who test well at the top of the pack are incredibly smart.

Anonymous wrote:Students with mastery of mathematics, physics and computer science who test well at the top of the pack are incredibly smart.

Anonymous wrote:You need to reside VA (Fairfax Count or one of its surrounding counties) to be eligible for admission to TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:If you really have that data available, please post the whole list, so we can see the full count of where all seniors were admitted/enrolled.

TJ full list for 2011 - first number is the # admitted, the second number is the # enrolled.

Amherst College 2 2
Boston College 8 1
Boston University 14 2
Brown University 8 3
Bucknell University 5 0
University of California at Berkeley 24 4
University of California at Los Angeles 14 0
University of California at San Diego 7 0
University of California at Santa Barbara 5 1
California Institute of Technology 9 4
Carnegie Mellon University 45 14
Case Western Reserve University 18 2
University of Chicago 11 1
Columbia University 13 7
Cornell University 37 13
Dartmouth College 9 3
Drexel University 13 0
Duke University 33 12
Emory University 5 0
George Mason University 39 4
The George Washington University 13 2
Georgetown University 17 8
Georgia Institute of Technology 35 3
Harvard University 6 6
Harvey Mudd College 3 0
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 17 0
Indiana University at Bloomington 5 2
James Madison University 22 2
Johns Hopkins University 9 0
Lehigh University 5 1
University of Mary Washington 7 0
University of Maryland, College Park 19 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 14
McGill University 14 0
University of Miami 6 1
University of Michigan 37 4
Middlebury College 2 1
NCAA Eligibility Center 2 0
New York University 13 2
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 28 2
Northeastern University 6 0
Northwestern University 11 3
University of Notre Dame 14 5
Pennsylvania State University, University Park 32 2
University of Pennsylvania 5 4
University of Pittsburgh 20 3
Princeton University 14 10
Purdue University 6 0
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 18 1
Rice University 11 3
University of Richmond 3 0
Rochester Institute of Technology 11 2
University of Rochester 5 0
University of South Carolina 8 1
University of Southern California 9 2
Stanford University 7 7
Swarthmore College 1 0
Tufts University 10 0
Tulane University 3 0
Vanderbilt University 10 2
Vassar College 3 2
Virginia Commonwealth University 27 3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 168 31
University of Virginia 225 106
Wake Forest University 13 1
Washington and Lee University 3 1
Washington University in St. Louis 23 5
Wellesley College 7 1
College of William and Mary 194 56
Williams College 4 1
Yale University 13 7