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Highest SAT score?

Can anyone corroborate the claim that TJHSST has the highest SAT score of any school in the country? It's not difficult to believe, but considering the competition - Stuyvesant and Exeter with averages of roughly 1400 - I'd like to make sure this isn't apocryphal. Thanks, JTM 22:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

2005 graduating class averaged exactly 1482 on the SAT.

2004 graduating class averaged something in the low 1490s.

Notable alumni?

I don't know that there are any, but it would be an interesting sectin. (I think I heard two TJ alumni recently wrote a book.)

That would be The Rule of Four, a NYT bestseller by TJ alumni Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.

Another alumnus, Ivana Ma, was recently on The Apprentice. When she came to speak at TJ she also mentioned someone in her class who is now a famous broadway actor or something along those lines.

She was probably referring to Jose Llana, who has been in Rent, The King and I, and Flower Drum Song, among other shows. I'd look up what class he was in, but http://www.tjhsstalumni.org/ isn't loading. Shadowsong 00:12, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dont forget former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl. His bio says he went to Bishop Ireton, but I know he went to TJ for a time. If you are doubtful check out the year books in the the TJ library during his high school years. Twelvethirteen 20:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Funny - I just added a section on alumni last week before seeing this discussion! I got all of those except for Jose Llana. ldw

Other

I wish I had chosen to apply to TJHSST. I currently attend Chantilly High School and am very dissapointed after reading this article.

I added the section on the USAMO for 2004. Could anyone care to check if TJHSE has more USAMO qualifiers than any other high school for previous years?

Source: http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2004-ua/04usamoqualstate.html

Yes, since 2000 (1999 it only tied for most).

I took out the part on froshmores; it was irrelevant to that paragraph and I really don't see the point of including it in this article.
Mote 18:54, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I go to this school and I've never heard any rumor of relocation to GMU. What our school (TJHSST) has done recently is forged a partnership with George Mason, the specifics of which have yet to be determined by the two schools' administrations. I took out the paragraph that described this rumor.

You haven't been paying attention, then. There was a big thing about this in local media (maybe just TJToday) near the end of last year.
Mote 21:31, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm an alumnus of TJHSST, and at my class' recent 15 yr reunion, Dr. Lodal mentioned that there are discussions with GMU wherein GMU would give the school 70 acres in Fairfax, and assist in building a new facility. The current 40 acre school site in Alexandria would then be sold to help with the cost of the relocation.

A new facility built for the purpose of being a math/science high school would far outweigh the current facility, wedged into a 40 year old building that predates computers, and had no airconditioning in the mid-ninteeneighties when it opened.

A Fairfax location would also be much more centrally located relative to the total geographic area where the student come from than the current west Alexndria/east Annandale location is.

Posted by dcseain at 04:28 UTC on 16 Nov 2004

I edited the page in two places to reflect that the school is located in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County, rather than the previous "Alexandria, VA," which may be misleading to those unfamiliar with the vagaries of postal addressing conventions in Northern Virginia. --17:47, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)


RollBack:

I was unsure whether to roll back or not. I moved it here to talk to perserve it. Further edits were increasingly suspect.

TJHSST has fielded more National Merit Semifinalists than any other high school in America for most of the 1990s and 2000s; this is, however, partly due to the relatively low National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) cutoff in Virginia. From 2000 to 2005, it fielded more USAMO qualifiers than any other high school in America. -Tznkai

I agree with your rollback, pending a verifiable source for the information. --BaronLarf 20:25, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

This is more of an organizational thing, but shouldn't the infobox for tj moved higher up in the article? Most of the college and high school articles (or most articles for that matter) have the infobox as the first piece of multimedia content. --Moki80 02:45, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

National Merit Semifinalists

I changed the sentence about national merit semifinalist numbers to remove the qualifier that one of the reasons for the high number from TJ is the low score required for Virginia residents. From the most recent selection indices the following state-by-state cutoff ranking shows that Virginia is one of the HARDEST states to qualify in: 1) (tie) Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, DC -- 222 5) (tie) Virginia, Connecticut -- 220 7) Delaware -- 219 8) (tie) Georgia, New York, Vermont -- 218 National "Commended" Score: 202 from http://hseagle.sas.edu.sg/hscounseling/Tests/NMSCindex.htm

That says to me that it is incorrect to state that Virginia is easier than other states. If someone has contradictory information, please provide it. -- Andrew

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