Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the news release with all the stats at the bottom of the page:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admissions-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

Hispanic students increased the most. Good for them! I like to see diversity.

TJ Alum

Especially after you’ve gotten yours, right?

Where did you go to college?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

No one things you know of “at least” 5 families gaming the system. I’m sure people do that…but you don’t know 5 of them doing this. Zero chance.

If you already have a kid there, are active in the PTSA s at TJ and Carson and are friends with people who have siblings applying, yes, you do.

No, you don’t.

Are you paying attention to what’s happening with the TJ PTSA? It’s crazy right now. And no one is crazier that parents with one kid in Taj and a second kid who will apply in the next couple years.

Plus, it’s more like three families. One of whom is discussing renting a cheap apartment with two other families.

If you don’t believe parents will do things like transfer their kids after they have sunk years into getting them into TJ, you’re crazy.

I’m not the crazy one.

The issue isn’t whether parents will do what they can…the issue is whether they will all decide to blab about it to this one person. That’s what’s not believable. It’s clearly based on best guesses and conjecture.

You seem oddly invested in the discussions held within the TJ PTSA. If you don’t want to believe TJ parents with MS students are scrambling right now to get their younger kid the same opportunities as their older one, then don’t believe it’s happening. Entirely your call.

Reading comprehension fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's just all work to have base high school gain grater access to college level courses. Being able to take real laboratory courses at GMU or John's Hopkins would be nice.

THIS.

People, TJ is a losing battle. It’s a huge commute and college admissions are not great. Send your child to the base school and advocate like crazy to get your child access to advanced classes. Either NOVA, GMU, Hopkins, or expanding TJ classes into an academy model.

[Anonymous]

One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

For the class of 2024, if you were a private/homeschool student, you had about a 1 in 3 chance of acceptance. For the class of 2025, that plummeted to 1 in 10.

Private school/home school students were the MOST penalized group under this new system. Maybe FCPS was trying to punish families that left?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:all six of them except one have a 4.0 GPA. One kid who was accepted had a B+ in seventh-grade science.

Was the kid who got in with the B+ a URM?

yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

Do you know if the number/percentage of applicants from private schools was comparable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

Appalling. I cannot think of anything more likely to undermine the broad consensus in public education than this game playing.

Instead of pulling my kids, I think I'll go sign the recall petitions this weekend. Didn't really feel like #OpenFCPS was my fight until now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

Appalling. I cannot think of anything more likely to undermine the broad consensus in public education than this game playing.

Instead of pulling my kids, I think I'll go sign the recall petitions this weekend. Didn't really feel like #OpenFCPS was my fight until now.

Gross. FCPS is a vile cesspool of entitled parents.

[Anonymous]

Waitlisted - 3.98, Algebra 2, Carson, Algebra 2 SOL: 584

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My kid All A's 7th and 8th grade -Algebra 2-In the top 3 of state math competition top 5 at Nationals--- Waitlisted--URM Black mixed race. TJ is not trying to diversify. They are just accepting minorities that may not be qualify so they can fail or drop out. Just call it like it is. They want more whites at TJ and they are just using race as the means to get that. Look at the really numbers.

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[quote=Anonymous]My kid All A's 7th and 8th grade -Algebra 2-In the top 3 of state math competition top 5 at Nationals--- Waitlisted--URM Black mixed race. TJ is not trying to diversify. They are just accepting minorities that may not be qualify so they can fail or drop out. Just call it like it is. [b]They want more whites at TJ and they are just using race as the means to get that.[/b] Look at the really numbers.[/quote]

I wonder how many of the Hispanic new admits are actual Latinos and how many are privileged white kids with some level of Spanish heritage. I also wonder how many of the multiracial kids are "white, but I think one of my ancestors is black/Native American."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I haven’t seen discussed yet.

PRIVATE SCHOOL applicants were crushed this year. Last year, they made up 10% of the class. This year, they barely makeup 2%.

If you want your child to go to TJ, pull them out of private school for 8th grade.

Appalling. I cannot think of anything more likely to undermine the broad consensus in public education than this game playing.

Instead of pulling my kids, I think I'll go sign the recall petitions this weekend. Didn't really feel like #OpenFCPS was my fight until now.

I will join you. I usually let politics work themselves out but what they did with admissions thus year is educational malpractice.

[Anonymous]

Admitted. Herndon MS. 4.0 gpa. All honors classes. White. Algebra 1.

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Anonymous wrote:Admitted. Herndon MS. 4.0 gpa. All honors classes. White. Algebra 1.

Definately looks like a Herndon is the school for mediocre math students trying to go to TJ.