Are TJ college admissions a mess this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

Yes, it's an epic failure. It's a disservice to the wonderful students, the most hardworking, down to earth, and brilliant young people of their age.

The current admins focused on anything but promoting academic excellence.

The infamous lawsuit and disgusting and long-lasting battle among different activist parties put TJ in a bad lighting and impaired its reputation, which had negatively affected the college admission officers' decision making.

The turmoil around the admission changes inevitably affected the morale and mental health of the teachers and students. Many good teachers left. New teachers don't even know the materials they teach. Many good counselors felt less interested in helping students. Many students were left by themselves to navigate the complex college application process.

Sadly, there are more to list. The school just failed its students. Just ask any current senior how they felt about their prom last weekend, not to mention the ridiculous incident. This year is probably the start of the falling of a great school.

This is a clown show response from someone who is trying to create waitlist movement to serve their kid.

Denial coming in 3…2….1…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

Yes, it's an epic failure. It's a disservice to the wonderful students, the most hardworking, down to earth, and brilliant young people of their age.

The current admins focused on anything but promoting academic excellence.

The infamous lawsuit and disgusting and long-lasting battle among different activist parties put TJ in a bad lighting and impaired its reputation, which had negatively affected the college admission officers' decision making.

The turmoil around the admission changes inevitably affected the morale and mental health of the teachers and students. Many good teachers left. New teachers don't even know the materials they teach. Many good counselors felt less interested in helping students. Many students were left by themselves to navigate the complex college application process.

Sadly, there are more to list. The school just failed its students. Just ask any current senior how they felt about their prom last weekend, not to mention the ridiculous incident. This year is probably the start of the falling of a great school.

This is a clown show response from someone who is trying to create waitlist movement to serve their kid.

Denial coming in 3…2….1…

Yeah. That’s funny. None of that is true. Except the prom got disrupted by a power outage. That part is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

Yes, it's an epic failure. It's a disservice to the wonderful students, the most hardworking, down to earth, and brilliant young people of their age.

The current admins focused on anything but promoting academic excellence.

The infamous lawsuit and disgusting and long-lasting battle among different activist parties put TJ in a bad lighting and impaired its reputation, which had negatively affected the college admission officers' decision making.

The turmoil around the admission changes inevitably affected the morale and mental health of the teachers and students. Many good teachers left. New teachers don't even know the materials they teach. Many good counselors felt less interested in helping students. Many students were left by themselves to navigate the complex college application process.

Sadly, there are more to list. The school just failed its students. Just ask any current senior how they felt about their prom last weekend, not to mention the ridiculous incident. This year is probably the start of the falling of a great school.

This is a clown show response from someone who is trying to create waitlist movement to serve their kid.

Denial coming in 3…2….1…

Yeah. That’s funny. None of that is true. Except the prom got disrupted by a power outage. That part is true.

"power outage" ... hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

Not an answer to your question, but have heard (anecdotally) that GT takes a lot of Academies of Loudoun kids.

This is true..this year I have heard from my DS going to AOS that over 10 will be going to GT..last year I believe 15 went

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know (or have a good idea) why so few TJ grads go to GA. Tech?

Not an answer to your question, but have heard (anecdotally) that GT takes a lot of Academies of Loudoun kids.

This is true..this year I have heard from my DS going to AOS that over 10 will be going to GT..last year I believe 15 went

PP here...just to put it in context, AOS + AET is about 300 kids who graduate.

[Anonymous]

GT is not on TJ kids' radar. It's probably viewed as slightly above VT and not worth the OOS tuition and costs.

[Anonymous]

So what kind of TJ kid is getting into HYPSM nowadays? Why are the numbers so much worse in recent years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what kind of TJ kid is getting into HYPSM nowadays? Why are the numbers so much worse in recent years?

Largely athletes, but not recruited ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what kind of TJ kid is getting into HYPSM nowadays? Why are the numbers so much worse in recent years?

Largely athletes, but not recruited ones.

a white lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

TJ's impressive. College outcomes have diminished over the past decade, because the quality of candidates also went down as people figured out how to game admissions, but this should be reverse as the new criteria is doing a much better job identifying strong candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

TJ's impressive. College outcomes have diminished over the past decade, because the quality of candidates also went down as people figured out how to game admissions, but this should be reverse as the new criteria is doing a much better job identifying strong candidates.

TJ has one of the best college acceptances in the country despite all the blatant discrimination against Asian students but this will gey even better once the AA is finally gone for ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

Thank you for the confirmation. I also heard from multiple parents that TJ so far had 11 confirmed admissions to the top five universities. Last year it was about 31. The inflated numbers weren’t true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

Thank you for the confirmation. I also heard from multiple parents that TJ so far had 11 confirmed admissions to the top five universities. Last year it was about 31. The inflated numbers weren’t true.

Stop spreading misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a parent of TJ senior and here is number I get so far:
3 Harvard
1 or 2 Yale
2 Princeton
4 or 5 MIT (all from REA)
1 S (maybe)
1 Columbia
2 Upenn

The real number maybe higher than this but definitely not much. Worst year in decade.

I am an alumni interviewer for one of these schools so I see the breakdown of admits by HS. Your number is accurate for my school. The list posted before was extremely inflated inflated.

TJ's impressive. College outcomes have diminished over the past decade, because the quality of candidates also went down as people figured out how to game admissions, but this should be reverse as the new criteria is doing a much better job identifying strong candidates.

Yes, now that they're admitting the top students based on actual data and no longer favoring affluent schools who invest heavily in prep things should turn around.