<p>Doesn't look like anyone's posted this up yet this year ... thought I'd do so. From the Senior Issue of TJToday, the school newspaper at TJHSST. Apologies for any typos, just done really quickly. </p>
<p>And for those of you who don't know about TJ/are gonna be like "doesn't hold a candle to Andover/Exeter/whatever" as I've seen in previous TJHSST Destinations threads, from Wikipedia:
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST, TJ, Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered Governor's School located in Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, west of Alexandria.[2] It is a regional high school operated by Fairfax County Public Schools.
As a publicly funded and administered high school with selective admissions, TJHSST is often compared with notable public magnet schools. Attendance at TJ is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on an admissions test and prior academic achievement. The selective admissions program was initiated in 1985 through the cooperation of state and county governments, as well as corporate sponsorship from the defense and technology industries. TJ occupies the building of the previously non-selective Thomas Jefferson High School (constructed in 1965). TJHSST is one of 18 Virginia Governor's Schools, and a founding member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the school the best public high school in the nation in 2007,[3] 2008,[4] and 2009[5].
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<p>American U - 1
Amherst - 1
Bard - 1
Boston U - 1
Bowdoin - 1
Brigham Young - 1
Brown - 7
Bucknell - 1
CalTech - 3
Carnegie Mellon - 9
Case Western Reserve - 1
Christopher Newport - 1
Claremont McKenna - 1
Colby - 2
William & Mary - 60
Columbia - 6
Cooper Union - 1
Cornell - 17
Dartmouth - 7
Davidson - 1
Drexel - 1
Duke - 17
Emory - 2
Olin - 3
Furman - 1
George Mason - 4
Georgetown - 4
Georgia Tech - 6
Harvard - 3
Harvey Mudd - 1
Johns Hopkins - 2
Lafayette - 1
MIT - 15
McGill - 3
Mount Saint Mary's - 1
NYU - 2
Northwestern - 2
Nova Southeastern - 1
Oberlin - 5
Penn State - 4
Pomona - 1
Princeton - 10
Rensselaer - 1
Rhode Island School of Design - 1
Rice - 1
RIT - 3
St. Olaf - 1
Stanford - 8
Swarthmore - 2
Temple - 1
George Washington - 3
UT-Austin - 1
Tufts - 1
US Air Force Academy - 2
US Coast Guard Academy - 1
US Military Academy - 1
US Naval Academy - 1
UC, Berkeley - 2
U-Chicago - 5
U of Florida - 2
U of Georgia - 1
UIUC - 4
Mary Washington - 3
UMD, College Park - 2
U of Missouri - 1
Notre Dame - 4
UNC, Chapel Hill - 2
U of Oklahoma - 1
UPenn - 9
U of Pittsburgh - 1
U of Richmond - 1
U of Rochester - 1
South Carolina - 1
USC (Southern California) - 6
U of St. Thomas
UVA - 91
VCU - 3
VTech - 30
Wake Forest - 1
Washington and Lee - 1
WashU, St. Louis - 4
Wellesley - 1
Wesleyan - 1
Wheaton - 1
Williams - 1
Yale - 10</p>
<p>Overheard in the hallways:
"... this year was a really bad year for us... UVA waitlisted so many people! And Harvard?!"
"DUDE! I GOT INTO STANFORD EARLY!"
"There was someone wearing a white shirt with MIT just written on it in black sharpie on Destination Day..."
"Eh, if I don't get in anywhere else, I guess I'll just have to go to UVA."
"Oh yeah, William and Mary is my safety."</p>
<p>FIGHT ON!</p>
<p>If anyone has any questions about TJHSST, feel free to shoot me a PM.</p>
<p>WV2011 – UVa on par with many of the big state schools – NYU, U of Mich, Boston College, UCLA, etc., etc. By “obvious reason”, I assume you mean in-state tuition rates?</p>
<p>Many students in boarding schools also turn down the Ivy’s for financial reasons. Same bias in both the boarding school and TJ stats.</p>
<p>My point was that UVa isn’t academically distinguishable from many other large, 10k to 20k student schools. Hence the question, does “obvious reason” mean in-state tuition rates. Sorry if “state schools” was an inaccurate description for the listed schools.</p>
<p>At the end of each year, the senior issue of TJToday, TJ’s student newspaper, is published, where every senior’s goodbye/aphorism is printed, along with the Destinations section, where the colleges of all graduating seniors are listed.</p>
<p>Hi, I am a parent planning to move to the DC, MD, VA area. Can you help me to compare and choose between Georgetown Prep vs. TJHSST? As a person from outside the DC area (with info only from web sites) my current thought is that if we live in Silver Spring, MD it may be easier to send to Georgetown Prep in MD. Now that someone told me I can also take a shot at TJHSST for my son (2012 - 2016 high school) wondering whether to take a look at that as well? Quality education free compared to paying 30K at the prep school. BTW, to send to TJHSST, the working parents and the student may end up doing long commutes is my other worry. Any information that you can provide in this regard is very appreciated.</p>
<p>Where will you both be working? If it’s Maryland (near Silver Spring), you could live in north Arlington, Va. and your son would be eligible to test for TJ. It’s a bit of a drive to TJ but it would be about midway for both of you. it’s not a terrible commute from there to portions of Maryland (unless, of course, there’s an accident or something). Housing is expensive but if you’re moving here you probably know that anyway :)</p>
<p>Anyway. Feel free to PM me if you’d like to talk to someone who is familiar with the area, the commutes and the schools.</p>