Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology have been ranked #1 for past three years. Most parents of Gifted kids want their kids to get into TJ and then go to top, selective colleges, Ivey Leagues the best. But most parents don’t know there are other choices for their very gifted kids – The [...]

1. Harvard (98)
2. Georgetown (66)
3. U Pennsylvania (66)
4. Yale (57)
5. Columbia (56)
6. NYU (49)
7. Princeton (48)
8. Stanford (47)
9. Dartmouth (46)
10. Cornell (46)
11. Brown (45)
12. Duke (40)
13. Tufts (39)
14. Johns Hopkins (38)
15. MIT (37)
16. Middlebury (33)
17. U Chicago (30)
18. Vanderbilt (29)
19. Trinity College (28)
20. George Washington U (27)

TJ is the top public high schoo. Phillips Andover is the top private high school. You can compare the differences of the college destinations of both school.
Amherst College: 1
Arizona State University: 1
Babson College: 1
Bard College: 1
Barnard College: 1
Bates College: 1
Boston College: 3
Boston University: 7
Bowdoin College: 2
Brigham Young University: 1
Brown University: 7
University of California–Berkeley: 1
University of [...]

Here’s the list by most students attending:
University of Virginia (116)
William & Mary (34)
Virginia Tech (27)
Duke (25)
Princeton (14)
Carnegie-Mellon (11)
MIT (10)
Cornell (8)
Dartmouth (8)
Nortre Dame (8)
Stanford U (7)
University of Southern California (5)
Johns Hopkins U (4)
NYU (4)
University of California-Berkeley (4)
University of North Carolina (4)
University of Pennsylvania (4)
Boston University (3)
Brown University (3)
George Mason U (3)
Harvard (3)
James Madison U (3)
Oberlin College [...]

Destinations for TJHSST Class of 2006
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The “senior issue” of tjToday, the TJHSST (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, in Alexandria, VA, a selective competitive governor’s school, and a public school) came out today…it includes a list of where each of the 407 graduating seniors is going next year. Here’s the breakdown.
Two say [...]

As Phillips Academy in Andover, Phillips Exeter Academy, a co-educational residential school serving 1000 students in grades 9 through 12, and post-graduate level is the best private high school. Exeter, founded in 1781 by John Phillips, has a tradition of academic excellence, a distinguished faculty, and a long history of educating young people to [...]

The best private high school. President George W. Bush graduated from this high school. Many senators, CEOs, judges, lawyers graduate from there. Most its graduates go to the top private colleges. Mostly Ivy leagues.
Phillips Academy in Andover. Residential secondary school. New England. Established 1778. Academic excellence. Liberal arts tradition.
http://www.andover.edu/Pages/default.aspx

TJHSST ‘06 Destinations
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Amherst College (1)
Arizona State University (1)
Bates College (1)
Beloit College (1)
Boston College (2)
Bostn University (3)
Brandeis Univeristy (2)
Brighan Young University (5)
Brown University (4)
California Institute of Technology (1)
Carnegie Mellon Univeristy (9)
Catholic University (1)
Claremont McKenna College (1)
College of William and Mary (34)
Colorado School of Mines (1)
Connecticut College (1)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (1)
Columbia [...]

American University
Bennington College
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Evergreen State College
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
New School for Social Research
New York Medical College
New York University
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Reed College
Rhode Island School of Design
Rice University
Sarah Lawrence College
Smith College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of California at Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University [...]

Direct to College – This group of programs generates Bachelor’s Degrees for students that successfully complete them. They are also aimed at some of the youngest students, allowing them to effectively skip most or all of high school. The three programs in this group are EEP, TS/EEP, and PEG.

High School Replacement – This group of [...]