<p>1710? that's surprising, but you're right, maybe the program helped.</p>
<p>goodcolleges, does your friend have any superstar EC?</p>
<p>Those stats posted by the OP are excellent but it's a little misleading because the OP goes to a well-known, competitive high school (TJ) in a competitive area (state of VA). Such schools have unique track records and relationships with colleges (meaning colleges treat them differently). The results aren't much help if you go to a normal public or private high school in an area that's "mediocre" in comparison.</p>
<p>he was african american...but i dont know much about his EC's</p>
<p>Yeah no disrespect to the OP, but stats from Thomas Jefferson are about as useful as stats from Andover. You guys had, what, like 15 USAMO qualifiers?</p>
<p>thank you weasel</p>
<p>thats exactly what I was thinking. my school has 1 ap bio class of 12, whereas i hear they had like 3 full classes or somthing.</p>
<p>take these with a grain of salt</p>
<p>It would also be nice if you posted every single college from each person that got accepted.</p>
<p>There is a thread started by firewalker that has more details and photos of the stats from this high school. </p>
<p>gosh. you guys don't appreciate anything!</p>
<p>Dam right we don't. ;)</p>
<p>Well, I'm serious. The stats are not useful. They are, however, interesting, so the thread does live up to its title. Congrats on your successes, TJ!</p>
<p>I didn't read through the entire forum so sorry if I'm reiterating a point but..</p>
<p>Don't be alarmed and scared from the numbers. Thomas Jefforson is a VERY VERY elite school in Virginia.</p>
<p>I'm presuming these GPAs are weighted GPAs since some of them are above 4.00? With this in mind, the stats don't appear nearly as impressive GPA-wise--althrough the SAT scores are impressive.</p>
<p>Some schools' maximum GPA is 4.3; an A is a 4.0 but an A+ is a 4.3 (my school works this way). Also, weighted means different things at different schools. At one school, a student may get a 1 point bump for an AP course. At my school on the other hand, we get 1/3 of a letter grade bump (B+ to A- for example) but an A+ stays an A+. Thus the maximum GPA at my school is still 4.3. So here's my point: a weighted 4.2 at one school may be very different from a weighted 4.2 at another school even if the difficulty level of the two schools is exactly the same. Thus you really can't say how impressive the TJ GPA is.</p>
<p>at TJ, Ap courses get an extra 0.5, and an 'A' is a 4.0 (94-100)</p>
<p>usually the GPA's aren't that high because a) our courses are harder b) only 94+ is an A as opposed to 90+, and c) since we have so many required courses, such as science labs, computer science, etc, we don't have many free periods to take more AP's</p>
<p>oh, and the GPA's are weighted.</p>
<p>Do you have any numbers for Harvey Mudd?
Thks</p>
<p>Never mind -- found the list!</p>