A Fairfax Parent Wrote:
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> >>TJ is a cheater school, FFX knows it and so do
> the colleges and universities.
>
> Really ? The Ivies and Public Ivies all must be in
> on this cheating scam then.
>
> Here is the TJ Class of 2015 destinations, with
> the number in parentheses: Harvard (3), MIT (8),
> Wellesley (1), Williams (1), Cal Tech (1),
> Stanford (6), UC Berkeley (6), UCLA (1), UCSD (1),
> U. of Chicago (8), Johns Hopkins (5), Naval
> Academy (2), Carnegie Mellon (16), Yale (5), Duke
> (9), Columbia (4), Cornell (14), US Military
> Academy (3), Princeton (5), Darmouth (2),
> Washington University (8), William and Mary (44),
> UVA (81)
>
>
> That's 228 out of 395 their seniors admitted to
> the best research universities in the world, an
> amazing 57.7 percent! The other 167 kids also
> went to top-notch schools too numerous to list,
> but you can take a look for yourself.
>
http://thebullelephant.com/college-destinations-fo
> r-tjhsst-class-of-2015/
>
> Your average Fairfax HS would be lucky to send a
> handful of students to these elite college
> destinations. The Washington Post did an article
> on this a few years back.
>
> Regardless of where these students end up, what's
> more important is that they do NOT learn the kind
> of thinking that says "Gee, these people are doing
> better than me--they must be cheating." They will
> spend the rest of their lives watching other
> people succeed.
Wouldn't you expect a school that has selective admissions and that has kids that score high on SAT/ACT be admitted to top schools?
What the top schools do not understand is how all these students ended up with high SAT/ACT scores and were actually admitted to the school.
Binge/Purge skills are very different than critical problem solving skills.
I can tell you that kids from other tip FCPS schools get into many of of the schools listed, maybe not as many by the numbers but the average FCPS school does not have the selective admissions like TJ and you have a more typical distribution of students. Also when you are not coming from a school like TJ and have very high SAT/ACT scores, money does play into where people decide to go to school.