Archive for April, 2009

National Merit Scholarship and PSAT

Of the 1.5 million entrants, some 50,000 with the highest PSAT/NMSQT® Selection Index scores (critical reading + mathematics + writing skills scores) qualify for recognition in the National Merit® Scholarship Program. In April following the fall test administration, high-scoring participants from every state are invited to name two colleges or universities to which they would […]

SAT Vocabulary

the best SAT Vocabulary prep books: 1) Direct Hits consistently outperforms other vocab books, so I’d go with that. If you have a ton of time, Barron’s 3500 is also good. 2) Barrons 3500 guarantees you (in the worst possible case) at least 17/19 on SC.If you memorize the words well,of course 3) For vocab, […]

What is the prettiest campus?

This list is the result of a survey. 1) http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=730&pgID=6013&nwID=4077 2) University of California Santa Cruz. As a Alumni I will say is it the most beautiful campus in the world. 3). Yale, Princeton, Vassar 4). Vassar. Hamilton, Brown 5). Duke, Princeton, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Colby 6). Stanford and Miami University (Ohio) -uglies MIT 7). Duke, […]

top 15 most prestigious universities

this list is the results from a survey: 1) Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, and Cornell. 2)all 8 of the Ivy League Institutions, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, the University of California-Berkeley, John Hopkins University, MIT, and Cal Tech. 3)Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, […]

college destination of TJ graduate ordered by numbers of attendences

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 […]

College Destinations for TJHSST Class of 2005

Destinations for TJHSST Class of 2006 —– 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. […]

Phillips Exeter Academy – One of the best private high school that can compete with TJHSST

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 find […]

One of the best private high school that can compete with TJHSST

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

The college Destination of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia 2006

TJHSST ’06 Destinations — 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) […]

Simon’s Rock-Recent Graduate and Professional School Placements

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 […]