<p>TJ is bullsh|t, it has a contract that UVA will accept a minimum of like 200 students every year</p>
<p>\/\/TF is that?</p>
<p>its funny though, i know so many people who go to TJ and my sister goes there! but man, screw TJ.</p>
<p>I do agree that TJ students have some unfair advantages in the college game. So do alot of "prestigious" high schools. But you have to admit, most of the people there are pretty d*** smart.</p>
<p>Man, there's a lot of heat emanating from your direction, Firewalker. What's with all the playa hatin'? ;)</p>
<p>Also, I believe you're joking, right? 'Cause UVa doesn't have a contract w/ any high school.</p>
<p>yea, tj students are pretty smart, ill give you that much.</p>
<p>and globalist, uva does have a quota with TJ, im not sure if its 200 students, but its alot.</p>
<p>No, UVa doesn't have a formal quota for any school. Yes, the Admissions Office admits plenty of TJ kids because it realizes that TJ students are really smart. Since that school has already enrolled many of the brightest kids in the area, it's like a no-brainer for UVa. It's like being handed a basket full of the best berries already picked for you from the various fruit trees. The equivalent would be Stuyvesant and Bronx Science for Cornell. A lot of those kids end up in Ithaca.</p>
<p>i guess so...*sigh</p>
<p>I am applying to both UVA and William & Mary. Actually, W & M is harder to get into than UVA. I'd rather go to W & M, but am applying (don't hate me) to UVA as a back-up. I think W & M deserves a lot more credit than it's given.</p>
<p>Good luck, Worldshopper. Coming from out of state, I don't think either UVa or W&M can be considered back-ups. Looking at what Marni1 wrote, plenty of kids are rejected by UVa and end up at Ivy League schools. I personally have friends who didn't get into UVa and ended up at Columbia, Cornell, and Penn. I also know of someone who didn't get into UVa and ended up at Stanford.</p>
<p>Yeah worldshopper, UVA is no back-up for out of staters...neither is W & M. But both are great schools. Being at a governor's school in VA, I have alot of friends at both UVA and W&M, and most of them love it there. One of my friends, from back in FL, got into Brown and W&M (out of state) and she's going to W&M. She loves it there.
VTech is also pretty good for sciences/engineering, but it's not my cup of tea...too big.</p>
<p>P.S. another plus for UVA: Charlottesville is great, I live about 1 hr away and I've been there a few times. It was rated #1 place to live by some magazine.</p>
<p>I'd say accepting TJers is more like picking the best cherries from ONE tree, which happens to be full of alot of good berries. There are alot of good berries in those other trees you know (i.e. OOSers)!</p>
<p>and why TJers are smart: Smart people work for the govenrment > government workers live outside of DC > smart people have smart kids > ipso facto selective schools outside of DC (i.e. TJ) get the smartest kids of an already smart pool.</p>
<p>NOVA is great, true. :)</p>
<p>I too have heard of UVA rejecting applicants who later were accepted to some Ivy schools. I heard that UVA does that because they feel the applicants are using UVA as a safety and presume they are also applying to some Ivy schools, Stanford, JHU, etc. </p>
<p>For W & M: My h.s. is second (behind T.J.) for sending the highest number of kids there in the U.S. And for UVA, I can't recall any kids being rejected from my h.s. I am not saying that I'm "in" at either school, I just feel I have a better than average chance.</p>
<p>I'm applying to W&M as well, but its definitely a different feel than UVa, a lot smaller campus/student body. Plus Williamsburg isn't really near a major cities. Still definetly a nice campus. Thomas Jefferson went to W&M and hated it so much that he founded UVa. But anyway I got to hand it to Va for having a really great public school system at both the high school and collegiate levels. Schools like Delaware are really striving to capture that "public ivy" thing that UVa has going on.
Thanks for all the feedback,</p>
<p>Meyer</p>