I’m a parent of a TJ junior and I think I’ll advise her not to reply— no way her school choice needs to be published to the world and commented upon by random strangers who think her worth is judged by the college she will attend.

Seniors got a link through email to post where they were going.

The problem was, nobody in that generation reads email

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

I wonder why the survey is incomplete. Is this something else the principal tried to put an end to?

I doubt it. It probably has more to do with school ending earlier in the year now and the student newspapers having less time to send reminders or chase down responses.

People sitting on Ivy waitlists, or any waitlists, people keeping their colleges private since this is posted online, seniors who don’t GAF...

Or if it was me, it could have just been one more thing I didn't quite get around to. . .

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

I wonder why the survey is incomplete. Is this something else the principal tried to put an end to?

I doubt it. It probably has more to do with school ending earlier in the year now and the student newspapers having less time to send reminders or chase down responses.

People sitting on Ivy waitlists, or any waitlists, people keeping their colleges private since this is posted online, seniors who don’t GAF...

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

I wonder why the survey is incomplete. Is this something else the principal tried to put an end to?

I doubt it. It probably has more to do with school ending earlier in the year now and the student newspapers having less time to send reminders or chase down responses.

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Anonymous wrote:A pretty impressive list this year (even to hardcore anti-TJ'ers). I believe these are matriculants, not admittees. Here is a partial list:

Berkley 8
Chicago 8
Columbia 2
Cornell 13
Duke 4
Harvard 5
MIT 7
Michigan 14
Penn 3
Princeton 4
Stanford 3
Washington University (St. Louis) 4
Williams 2
Yale 5

Still unimpressed the number one question remains if these kids would have remained at their base schools what would happened

I would argue for most at TJ they would have gotten better results from base schools

Even with this top 25% or so list

Tufts
CMU (Engineering/CS)
Grinnell
UICU
GA Tech

And as a TJ parent, I know my kids long term results would not have been as good out of a base school. TJ sends kids to College— be it Harvard or UVA who are over prepared and find college easy after TJ. On some campuses, including UVA, TJ kids have the #1 GPA out of all US school with at least 10 kids on campus. Even if my kid could have gotten into the exact same college out of a base school, my kid will do better in college than they would out of a base school. That counts for a lot for kids who will likely continue past undergrad.

All you have experience is TJ. Again my argument is your kid would have had a similar experience in a top section at their base schools

P.S. in the real world no one cares about GPA

Actually, TJ isn’t my only experience. I also have a kid at a “top” Western County FCPS base high school. That kid is also getting a great education, taking all honors/AP classes, and will likely do well in college. But the rigor is nowhere near what it is at TJ. Especially in STEM, but also in English. My base school kid is getting better History, since WH is 2 years at base, one at TJ. Base school kid will get more AP credits and a higher GPA for less work.

The base school standards are lower and the workload is lighter. But, my base school kid will be prepared for college— but not overprepared, like my TJ kid. My TJ kid is likely to have a very easy time, especially the first couple years. My base school kid will have to make an upward adjustment, just like they did starting Ms and starting HS. I obviously can’t see the future, but I suspect my TJ kid will have a higher college GPA.

You are right, GPA matters little in real life. But it does matter for grad school admissions.

So yes, I am one of the relatively small number of parents in FCPS who can compare.

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Anonymous wrote:A pretty impressive list this year (even to hardcore anti-TJ'ers). I believe these are matriculants, not admittees. Here is a partial list:

Berkley 8
Chicago 8
Columbia 2
Cornell 13
Duke 4
Harvard 5
MIT 7
Michigan 14
Penn 3
Princeton 4
Stanford 3
Washington University (St. Louis) 4
Williams 2
Yale 5

Still unimpressed the number one question remains if these kids would have remained at their base schools what would happened

I would argue for most at TJ they would have gotten better results from base schools

Even with this top 25% or so list

Tufts
CMU (Engineering/CS)
Grinnell
UICU
GA Tech

And as a TJ parent, I know my kids long term results would not have been as good out of a base school. TJ sends kids to College— be it Harvard or UVA who are over prepared and find college easy after TJ. On some campuses, including UVA, TJ kids have the #1 GPA out of all US school with at least 10 kids on campus. Even if my kid could have gotten into the exact same college out of a base school, my kid will do better in college than they would out of a base school. That counts for a lot for kids who will likely continue past undergrad.

All you have experience is TJ. Again my argument is your kid would have had a similar experience in a top section at their base schools

P.S. in the real world no one cares about GPA

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Anonymous wrote:What about HSs like Chantilly, Oakton. Any destination data available for other FCPS HSs?

No one cares about those schools.

What a silly conment. The population of Western fairfax is 50% of the county.

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

I wonder why the survey is incomplete. Is this something else the principal tried to put an end to?

It is probably incomplete because it is not mandatory. It probably wouldn't be allowable to make it mandatory. The complete lists I've seen published don't have names attached to them. Just counts. I think it is unlikely just the UVA and VT kids did not submit. I think there must be a decline in matriculations there this year for some reason. The trend seems to be towards more TJ kids going out of state.

Anonymous wrote:What about HSs like Chantilly, Oakton. Any destination data available for other FCPS HSs?

No one cares about those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the link for class of 2018 if you want to get some idea:

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJProfile1819.pdf

Unimpressive.

Basically seems like it makes UVA more likely than not and William and Mary all but guaranteed. Big whoop.

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Anonymous wrote:People ascribe bad motives to OP because DCUM is full of TJ hate. And her story makes no sense.

Why doesn't it make sense? Her DD feels awkward asking, so OP tried to see if she could find out.

On an anonymous forum?

Yes. There are many TJ parents and one actually did post a link that lists students by name and where they are going, so OP got the answer she was looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:A pretty impressive list this year (even to hardcore anti-TJ'ers). I believe these are matriculants, not admittees. Here is a partial list:

Berkley 8
Chicago 8
Columbia 2
Cornell 13
Duke 4
Harvard 5
MIT 7
Michigan 14
Penn 3
Princeton 4
Stanford 3
Washington University (St. Louis) 4
Williams 2
Yale 5

Still unimpressed the number one question remains if these kids would have remained at their base schools what would happened

I would argue for most at TJ they would have gotten better results from base schools

Even with this top 25% or so list

Tufts
CMU (Engineering/CS)
Grinnell
UICU
GA Tech

And as a TJ parent, I know my kids long term results would not have been as good out of a base school. TJ sends kids to College— be it Harvard or UVA who are over prepared and find college easy after TJ. On some campuses, including UVA, TJ kids have the #1 GPA out of all US school with at least 10 kids on campus. Even if my kid could have gotten into the exact same college out of a base school, my kid will do better in college than they would out of a base school. That counts for a lot for kids who will likely continue past undergrad.

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

Those numbers were from one of TJ parents' social media circle, which in turn was sourced from their TJ students.

I thought they were looking at the link, which is TJ today.

Info in that link is incomplete.

Yes, but about 75% of the class.

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Harvard 15. 10 others were missed or didn't report to the list.

There were 12 MIT admits this year , which is roughly on the same level as other years. However, 5 rejected MIT opting for other schools, including all 4 girls admitted.

I don't doubt your info but as a parent of a senior, even I didn't know who was going where, much less know specific numbers of admits vs matriculation.
I don't think the counselors themselves know exact # of admits if the kids don't tell, how then would you know?

By my count, survey is reporting 306 kids out of 421 or 25% of the class did not report their destination for public consumption.

I wonder why the survey is incomplete. Is this something else the principal tried to put an end to?