Who are the kids that get into TJ from the lower ranking middle schools?

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Anonymous wrote:My DC with very similar stats was rejected from Longfellow but I think your child has an excellent chance of being admitted. Good luck!

Did you end up sending your kid to McLean or did you find another school? How is it working out?

We are appalled by the arrogant, dismissive attitude of the school board member about the overcrowding there and not sure we can stomach sending DC there.

Longfellow is a great school. Lot of smart kids and extremely competitive to get into TJ. My child got in last year from Longfellow
For a good or easy chance to get into TJ you can be out of feeder schools

Isn't that funny, the feeder schools are now the hardest places to get into TJHS from

#BackDoorKaren

Because of the quota system lot of deserving students are not getting admitted which is disappointing for the kid and parents. They had worked so hard all year long. Some kids from other schools who got in are surprised they were the top 1.5%. Don’t know if this is funny for you

FALSE, because of the improvements to the selection process more deserving students are being selected now than in years past.

In the past they most just picked kids who could afford prep classes which were mostly from a few wealthy schools. This wasn't the same thing as the most gifted, but people who were gaming admissions.

Many parents are upset the backdoor is no longer accessible and haven't given up gaming the system.

#BackDoorKaren

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Anonymous wrote:I have a child at poorly performing MS which, prior to the admission policy change, typically did not have any students admitted to TJ. DC is truly a brilliant and hardworking kid - the top student in honors geometry (near perfect average), acing the rest of their all honors courses, all advanced pass or perfect SOL scores, etc. DC is white and we do not qualify for free/reduced priced meals.

I'm curious to know what the admittance pool looks like at a school like ours? Do we have a shot or are the spots typically offered to high performing students with one or more "experience factors"?

I hope to keep the conversation civil and am genuinely asking out of curiosity. TIA!

I would say the kids from the lower ranking middle schools are the ones making up the majority of students taking Geometry in 9th grade. Hard to know about the experience factors weight. I imagine it weighs more than many would be comfortable knowing. Kind of like Young Scholars...

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Anonymous wrote:My DC with very similar stats was rejected from Longfellow but I think your child has an excellent chance of being admitted. Good luck!

Did you end up sending your kid to McLean or did you find another school? How is it working out?

We are appalled by the arrogant, dismissive attitude of the school board member about the overcrowding there and not sure we can stomach sending DC there.

Longfellow is a great school. Lot of smart kids and extremely competitive to get into TJ. My child got in last year from Longfellow
For a good or easy chance to get into TJ you can be out of feeder schools

Isn't that funny, the feeder schools are now the hardest places to get into TJHS from

Because of the quota system lot of deserving students are not getting admitted which is disappointing for the kid and parents. They had worked so hard all year long. Some kids from other schools who got in are surprised they were the top 1.5%. Don’t know if this is funny for you

FALSE, because of the improvements to the selection process more deserving students are being selected now than in years past.

In the past they most just picked kids who could afford prep classes which were mostly from a few wealthy schools. This wasn't the same thing as the most gifted, but people who were gaming admissions.

Many parents are upset the backdoor is no longer accessible and haven't given up gaming the system.

Seems like they won't let this go...

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC with very similar stats was rejected from Longfellow but I think your child has an excellent chance of being admitted. Good luck!

Did you end up sending your kid to McLean or did you find another school? How is it working out?

We are appalled by the arrogant, dismissive attitude of the school board member about the overcrowding there and not sure we can stomach sending DC there.

Longfellow is a great school. Lot of smart kids and extremely competitive to get into TJ. My child got in last year from Longfellow
For a good or easy chance to get into TJ you can be out of feeder schools

Isn't that funny, the feeder schools are now the hardest places to get into TJHS from

Because of the quota system lot of deserving students are not getting admitted which is disappointing for the kid and parents. They had worked so hard all year long. Some kids from other schools who got in are surprised they were the top 1.5%. Don’t know if this is funny for you

FALSE, because of the improvements to the selection process more deserving students are being selected now than in years past.

In the past they most just picked kids who could afford prep classes which were mostly from a few wealthy schools. This wasn't the same thing as the most gifted, but people who were gaming admissions.

I heard most of the kids who got in had bought the test answers.

I heard most of the kids who got in from the "good" schools had access to the test answers ahead of time before they fixed selection to stop the cheating.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC with very similar stats was rejected from Longfellow but I think your child has an excellent chance of being admitted. Good luck!

Did you end up sending your kid to McLean or did you find another school? How is it working out?

We are appalled by the arrogant, dismissive attitude of the school board member about the overcrowding there and not sure we can stomach sending DC there.

Longfellow is a great school. Lot of smart kids and extremely competitive to get into TJ. My child got in last year from Longfellow
For a good or easy chance to get into TJ you can be out of feeder schools

Isn't that funny, the feeder schools are now the hardest places to get into TJHS from

Because of the quota system lot of deserving students are not getting admitted which is disappointing for the kid and parents. They had worked so hard all year long. Some kids from other schools who got in are surprised they were the top 1.5%. Don’t know if this is funny for you

FALSE, because of the improvements to the selection process more deserving students are being selected now than in years past.

In the past they most just picked kids who could afford prep classes which were mostly from a few wealthy schools. This wasn't the same thing as the most gifted, but people who were gaming admissions.

I heard most of the kids who got in had bought the test answers.

I heard most of the kids who got in from the "good" schools had access to the test answers ahead of time before they fixed selection to stop the cheating.

Sure, some kids bought the answers, but we used to call that merit back in my day.