<p>I was searching through old threads and came across a post of TJ's Class of '06 Senior Destinations, so instead of studying for finals, I decided to post this instead. (I'm not sure if TJ counts as a "prep school," so please move this thread to its appropriate place if I posted it in the wrong section. Thanks.)</p>
<p>Agnes Scott College (1)
American University (1)
Amherst College (2)
Arizona State University (1)
Boston College (1)
Brandeis University (2)
Brigham Young University (3)
Brown University (5)
Bucknell University (1)
California Institute of Technology (5)
Carleton College (1)
Carnegie Mellon University (10)
Case Western Reserve University (1)
Christopher Newport University (1)
Colgate University (1)
College of William & Mary (63)
Colorado School of Mines (1)
Columbia University (4)
Cornell University (8)
Dartmouth College (11)
Davidson College (1)
Duke University (11)
Emory University (3)
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (1)
George Mason University (5)
George Washington University (5)
Georgetown University (3)
Georgia Institute of Technology (4)
Harvard University (7)
Hillsdale College (1)
Indiana University (1)
James Madison University (4)
Johns Hopkins University (5)
Junlata College (1)
Maryland Institute College of Art (1)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (15)
McGill University (2)
Michigan State University (1)
Mississippi State University (1)
Muhlenberg College (1)
New College of Florida (1)
New England Conservatory of Music (1)
New York University (7)
Northeastern University (1)
Northwestern University (1)
Oberlin College (1)
Occidental College (1)
Ohio Wesleyan University (1)
Otterbein College (1)
Pennsylvania State University (1)
Pepperdine University (1)
Polytechnic Institute of NYU (1)
Pomona College (1)
Princeton University (11)
Purdue University (1)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1)
Rochester Institute of Technology (2)
Rutgers University (1)
Sarah Lawrence College (1)
Stanford University (6)
Stetson University (1)
Stevens Institute of Technology (1)
Swarthmore College (1)
Syracuse University (1)
The University of Texas, Austin (1)
The University of Texas, Dallas (1)
Trinity University (1)
Tufts University (2)
United States Air Force Academy (2)
United States Military Academy (1)
United States Naval Academy (1)
University of Arizona (1)
University of California, Irvine (1)
University of California, Santa Cruz (1)
University of Central Florida (1)
University of Chicago (4)
University of Colorado, Boulder (1)
University of Delaware (1)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1)
University of Kentucky (1)
University of Mary Washington (2)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2)
University of Maryland, College Park (1)
University of Miami (1)
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1)
University of Notre Dame (2)
University of Oklahoma (1)
University of Pennsylvania (6)
University of Pittsburgh (2)
University of South Carolina (2)
University of Southern California (4)
University of Virginia (104)
Vanderbilt University (4)
Villanova University (1)
Virginia Commonwealth University (7)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (19)
Wake Forest University (1)
Washington University, St. Louis (5)
Williams College (1)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2)
Yale University (6)
Other Plans/Undecided (4)</p>
<p>That is great. However, this is a HUGE class. Using the popular ivy+SM percentage, it’s still not in the same league as the top tier boarding schools.</p>
<p>NoDrama - I don’t think that it is accurate to say that this school is not in the same league as the top tier boarding schools - the tricky part is that it is a public high school in Virginia so there will be many smart kids choosing to go to UVA and College of William and Mary - if you remove those kids from the stats, that leaves 250+ kids in the class and close to 80 of them going to Ivy+SM - that is pretty impressive in my book</p>
<p>I agree that in a school like TJHSST, there must be more students that would choose not to attend an ivy for financial reasons, but can you assume that all those who went to UVA and College of William and Mary would otherwise make to ivy+SM?</p>
<p>Some might not choose to attend ivies for financial reasons and some might just find a perfect school for them that is not any ivy. Either way, TJHSST is a top notch school and there is no question in my mind that it is in the same league as any other top school, whether that school is part of a made up acronym or not. </p>
<p>US News and World Report chose TJ as #1 in the nation for past two years running. I’m not sure if you know any of the kids who attend TJ but if you do then you know that they are some of the most brilliant, dedicated, awesome students you can imagine. These kids will change the world.</p>
<p>This discussion is about college matriculation stats. If you have read my post carefully, I was only commenting on the “popular ivy+SM percentage”. I didn’t say the school is not in the same league as other great schools. The school of course is a well recognized excellent school with the most bright students around VA. I was also going to say it’s unfair to ask for the same kind of ivy percentage from TJ because it is a huge class.</p>
<p>Where’s the Harvard -Westlake list?
BTW - my oldest (HW graduate) graduates from Northwestern this week where he says over 70% of his class has NO job going forward…which means?</p>
<p>Which means Northwestern is not good enough? No, kidding! Which means the economy is that bad. The students who have taken things seriously and worked hard don’t deserve this.</p>
<p>I have to say it’s surprising when anyone knows who, or what, TJ is, so it’s exciting to see there’s some sort of recognition out there (since, really, high schools aren’t all that notable or well-known). </p>
<p>As a recently-graduated TJ senior (heading to MIT), I’ll have to clear up that there are some inaccuracies in the newspaper (where that information was published): there’s an additional person going to MIT, and minus one from Carnegie Mellon and from Dartmouth. The names aren’t listed here, but my dear friend is going to MIT now and one person (who hasn’t fully mastered quantum mechanics, sadly) was listed under both Dartmouth and Cornell. The total class was 454, I don’t know if the numbers add up to that.</p>
<p>I just wanted to clear it up, lest anyone thought there was any inaccurate information - or, nay - MISTAKES on the internets. </p>
<p>Well TJHSST sucks if you don’t like math and science. I’m actually applying to TJHSST and a bunch of boarding schools, including SPS and Andover. I am more a liberal arts girl which is why boarding school is an option for me. And boarding school has more connections.
At thomas jefferson, athletics are terrible except track, golf, and tennis or whatever. Uh, the science department and the music departments are amazing. Many of the people of the freshman class had a perfect math SAT score by the 7th grade. Pure geniuses, I tell you.</p>