<p>i want to know(would be awesome if previous tamsters replied), what kind of colleges do tams students attend.</p>
<p>i got accepted to tams(texas academy of math and science)</p>
<p>i am going to attend this because i think i will do great there and i am willing to push myself.</p>
<p>my main question is, will attending tams help or hurt my chances of being accepted into colleges like cal-tech, mit, or princeton(my dream colleges)</p>
<p>right now, i am one of the top students in my school(fall under top 1%) and i could easily attend ut austin by the percent rule,</p>
<p>i really like tams and its perfect for me, there is just that 1 fear, will it hurt my chances of getting to one of these colleges?</p>
<p>I answered this before, the first time you posted your question. Here it is again.
TAMS doesn’t rank their students, and I’ve heard they’ve had a hard time getting into UT because of it. A few were finally accepted as transfer students, but then they couldn’t get any merit aid.
If you want UT, then you need to stay where you are. It’s hard to pass up a sure thing which you’ve got in your back pocket.
As far as CalTech, MIT, or Princeton. These past few years the number of applicants have just exploded. Off the charts. So the acceptance rates are in the toilet. I think the unis like the ones on your list are slammed with apps, so more and more they use gate-keeping numbers - like GPA, Rank - to whittle down the numbers into something reasonable. Things are just getting more and more competitive. But you know this.
Seriously, they’d have to hire thousands of people to go over all the apps and read the essays, and who can afford that.
If you only want the knowledge, then TAMS is the place. But it’s also a GPA risk, since the classes are Uni Honors. If you want a hi GPA and hi Rank so you can get into UT or your dream schools, then you’re better off where you are. Plus, you’d have more time to work on your essays, apps, etc.</p>
<p>this time my question was what kind of colleges do they attend. examples/numbers, sorry for the misunderstanding/</p>
<p>Well, each year TAMS students attend many Ivies/Top-Tier Schools. From this years Senior Class we have students going to Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, MIT (some were accepted, however, I don’t think anyone actually is going to MIT). However, the numbers are very low. Out of a class of 170-200 students at TAMS, I’d say ~25-30 are qualified to get into these types of schools. However, schools do not want to admit 30 people from the same high school, so unless you can distinguish yourself from your TAMS peers, you risk looking unimpressive in comparison.</p>
<p>I believe this year admits were something like this:</p>
<p>Stanford- 5
MIT- 2
Yale-1
Berkeley- Not exactly sure
Columbia- ~5
Cornell- ~4
Johns Hopkins- 1</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior at TAMS, and if you have any questions, feel free to DM me.</p>
<p>However, don’t underestimate the network of an elite public magnet either. I attended one as well, then an Ivy-equivalent, then an M7 B-school, and while the M7 B-school has been most helpful in my career, the elite public magnet network actually has been more helpful than the Ivy-equivalent. </p>
<p>I don’t know what TAMS is like, but the residential HS I attended was like a top liberal arts college with great faculty that expanded my mind, and the students were actually (IMO) brighter and more impressive than at the Ivy-equivalent I attended. Giving up the safety of UT-Austin may be tough, however. Ironically, at my HS, graduating from there was essentially a guaranteed admission to our state flagship (with a respected engineering school).</p>
<p>The OP may want to know how many graduates got accepted at and matriculated to UT-Austin, UT-Dallas, and A&M.</p>
<p>As i attend a school where we regularly send 20+ kids each year to TAMS, i know from hearing from past students that college admissions can vary. Even though TAMS doesn’t rank, they still have a GPA. The students who have the highest GPAs are gonna get into Ivy League, MIT, etc. and plenty of kids still get into oos publics and UT Austin. But still, if you are among the bottom of the pack, UT Dallas still takes plenty of TAMS kids. TAMS at my school is not as good of an opportunity as going to the senior highs, where top 7% rank is easy to obtain and you don’t have all that stress to go along with it. For this reason, several top students turned down TAMS admissions, so i would think about this if i were you as well.</p>