<p>where did the val. from tj go?</p>
<p>Cornell University (20)
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<p>my school's matric list 2002-2007
kind of frightening
our val. went to williams
we have a tiny school so most years we don't make the rankings (usually less than 50 girls every year).</p>
<p>I lived in the NO. VA area, TJ is a public school that you must be recommended for. You must test to get in. There is no financial situation b/c it is PUBLIC. Newsweek/Time/Fortune always lists as one of the top 10 public schools. The students at TJ are there for one reason alone...academics. They ride the school bus to and from everyday like reg. kids. Everyone should also add into the equation that Fairfax County HS have been in the top 100 for yrs now (all of them). Why? their budget is bigger than the bottom 8 states of the nation. Even at the "reg schools" SAT's avg at the 1400 out of 1600. SO in other words you are the stupid one of the class with 1200 (frightening thought).
Education in NVA is huge,and much more important than sports</p>
<p>"Even at the "reg schools" SAT's avg at the 1400 out of 1600."</p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>"Newsweek/Time/Fortune always lists as one of the top 10 public schools."</p>
<p>Wrong. Newsweek never includes TJ in the rankings.</p>
<p>"The students at TJ are there for one reason alone...academics."</p>
<p>Wrong. Bumper stickers say "TJ: We came for the sports."</p>
<p>"Even at the "reg schools" SAT's avg at the 1400 out of 1600."</p>
<p>Wrong. It's 1104 out of 1600. 1639 out of 2400. TJ is 2155 out of 2400.</p>
<p>"where did the val. from tj go?"</p>
<p>TJ does not rank. Therefore, it does not have a val, or sal, or anything else.</p>
<p>"40 points is not even a statistically significant difference."</p>
<p>30 points is the range college board gives. If that's your criterion, then the TJ SAT difference is significant. </p>
<p>"how is it that more students from the latter [Exeter/Andover] are admitted into schools such as HPYSPenn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, etc."</p>
<p>How about legacies and a larger student body.</p>
<p>omg!! TJ is the best school in the country. the harvard/mit of high schools =) they pwn in all the math contests too. lucky smart people!! </p>
<p>haha it's funny how they have more people going to HYPSMC combined (perhaps if you exclude the 105 to UVA :O altho UVA is also a good school). LOL haha!</p>
<p>chronicidal ~ I love your screen name!</p>
<p>This thread is making me feel sufficiently crappy about myself. It's kinda sad to know that had my parents moved me elsewhere, I'd have significantly more resources and opportunities at my disposal.</p>
<p>"how is it that more students from the latter [Exeter/Andover] are admitted into schools such as HPYSPenn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, etc."</p>
<p>How about legacies and a larger student body."</p>
<p>Legacies and closer relationships between adcoms and counselors, maybe. Size of student body, no. TJ's grad class is a little bigger than Exeter's.</p>
<p>Legacies are a big deal...otherwise the app wouldn't ask about it!</p>
<p>Remember TJ is not private...you must test to get in, that said many of these kids parents aren't legacies, which makes them getting in on their own steam power not a connection</p>
<p>As for the SAT's you must look up Fairfax, not Falls Church, ARlington, ALexandria. Also don't add in PW county which people consider as NoVA</p>
<p>McClean is one of the top hs in the nation! </p>
<p>If you want to have a valid comparison than try Gonzaga where parents are paying for the education.</p>
<p>Newseek removed TJ only a few years ago, back in 2004/2005 they were still on the list. When they removed them in 2006, they even had a blurb that stated since you must test to get in than they would not place them on the public list...I will caveat on say, maybe it wasn't Newsweek, but Fortune.</p>
<p>Exeter's tuition is 28-36K per yr. They have now taken the Harvard approach of a free ride if your parents make less than 75K.<br>
Before everyone screams at me. 75k -taxes = @60K, or 5 grand a month. If you are a single family that would be about average and I would not consider that low income.</p>
<p>TJ is number one according to US News and World Report</p>
<p>"TJ is number one according to US News and World Report"</p>
<p>And Princeton is number one according to US News as well. That doesn't mean that I can't make a case arguing that Harvard is better, and it probably is in the opinions of most college students/academia.</p>
<p>Bullet - In 2006, the Fairfax County mean SAT scores were 1105 out of 1600. See <a href="http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/2006/approvedbudget.pdf#xml=http://search.fcps.edu/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/webinator/search/xml.txt?query=sat+scores+2006&pr=public&prox=sentence&rorder=750&rprox=750&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&sufs=1&order=r&cq=&id=476620d31a%5B/url%5D">http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/2006/approvedbudget.pdf#xml=http://search.fcps.edu/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/webinator/search/xml.txt?query=sat+scores+2006&pr=public&prox=sentence&rorder=750&rprox=750&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&sufs=1&order=r&cq=&id=476620d31a</a> and scroll down to page 11.</p>
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And about the SAT. 40 points is not even a statistically significant difference. It falls into the range of "actual scores" that the college board gives you on the score report. They are both many standard deviations from the norm.
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<p>That only works if you're comparing two people's SAT scores, not the averages of two scores.</p>
<p>dude us news & world report is stupid...how is princeton #1 :D</p>
<p>hahaha we have a list that looks kind of like that at our school except the heading is "class of 2007 was accepted to..."</p>
<p>since our valedictorian last year got into HYPSM... top 20 colleges, our list is pretty much TJ's without the numbers :D. Makes for a good school profile I would say :P</p>
<p>In case anyone wants to read the TJ article: Shooting</a> for the Academic Stars - US News and World Report</p>
<p>TJSS and Phillips Exeter and Andover all pwn our n00b schools, how about that?</p>
<p>50 students from 1 class going to the Ivy league is hella impressive for anyone.</p>