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Anonymous wrote:Too many top students clustered in a few schools.

It’s not a good idea to go to AAP center schools if kid is interested in TJ, especially center schools in northern fairfax, where there is a really high competition.

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Anonymous wrote:Too many top students clustered in a few schools.

It’s not a good idea to go to AAP center schools if kid is interested in TJ, especially center schools in northern fairfax, where there is a really high competition.

Maybe, although Cooper and Longfellow are “centers” that only kids who already live within the base boundaries attend. They aren’t like Carson or other AAP centers further south that kids from multiple pyramids attend. In any case, given the direction that TJ seems to be taking, Langley and McLean (like Chantilly and Oakton) may be better options. Strong academics, less bickering over who “belongs” there, and shorter trips to get there.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

seems like today's TJ doesn't deserve him. so be it.

My kid had similar accomplishments and was waitlisted 11 years ago. National Spelling Bee, member of JHU-SET for receiving 800 Math score on SAT at 11, national writing awards, national Spanish awards, MATHCOUNTS awards, national history day award, excellent cello player, Robotics competition awards, 4.0 GPA, 99th percentile on the admissions test etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

seems like today's TJ doesn't deserve him. so be it.

My kid had similar accomplishments and was waitlisted 11 years ago. National Spelling Bee, member of JHU-SET for receiving 800 Math score on SAT at 11, national writing awards, national Spanish awards, MATHCOUNTS awards, national history day award, excellent cello player, Robotics competition awards, 4.0 GPA, 99th percentile on the admissions test etc. etc.

And today your kid is ok regardless of whether they went to TJ and what college they attended

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

seems like today's TJ doesn't deserve him. so be it.

My kid had similar accomplishments and was waitlisted 11 years ago. National Spelling Bee, member of JHU-SET for receiving 800 Math score on SAT at 11, national writing awards, national Spanish awards, MATHCOUNTS awards, national history day award, excellent cello player, Robotics competition awards, 4.0 GPA, 99th percentile on the admissions test etc. etc.

PP, what is your kid doing today?

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

They are not picking the strongest kids.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

They are not picking the strongest kids.

They got top national award winners.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

They are not picking the strongest kids.

They got top national award winners.

Looks like the top 30% will have to carry the bottom 30%.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

same school with BC-Calculus kid (waitlisted) accepted student no strong extracurriculars and B- in Alg1 and waitlisted 4.0 Alg2 NJHS President. not picking strongest by any means.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

same school with BC-Calculus kid (waitlisted) accepted student no strong extracurriculars and B- in Alg1 and waitlisted 4.0 Alg2 NJHS President. not picking strongest by any means.

Not all the strong students were picked but there are strong students got picked. Most top national award winners were in.

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Not all the strong students were picked but there are strong students got picked. Most top national award winners were in.

Nothing in the application gives them a way to identify national award winners. Even if a student writes about a national award in the portrait sheet that in no way ensures a good score for the essays.

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Anonymous wrote:pp speaking here. think I know the BC-Calculus all of you are speaking of. have heard from DC he is their school's mun club's strongest member (5 gavels i heard) vp last yr and on leadership this yr, national award in quizbowl, science bee national finalist, scioly regional state national awards, is a life scout, captain of quizbowl and sciencebowl teams at old school (led team to some place in regionals last year not sure), njhs, started some tutoring program, organized 2 mun conferences (3rd this summer DC said), gifted in music, strong social skills and writing skills, 3.97 gpa etc. heard some rumor he is selfstudying college level economics & politics. DC and I very surprised he got waitlisted. DC his close friend.

pp adding on to this post with further info from DC, he takes latin 3 with local hs, got perfect score on NLE last year, highest score on PALS in his class (possibly in whole high school he does latin with), qualified for CTY and SET, perfect scores on all admissions tests he has taken, highest orchestra in school, got into some district orchestra, such shame he did not get in. heard his relatives went to tj too poor thing. very nice caring kid. saddens me he is waitlisted.

You should be sad for TJ, not the student. TJ isn’t much to celebrate any longer.

Not exactly. Sure, there aren't enough seats for the many qualified kids, but they picked the strongest candidates from the pool.

same school with BC-Calculus kid (waitlisted) accepted student no strong extracurriculars and B- in Alg1 and waitlisted 4.0 Alg2 NJHS President. not picking strongest by any means.

Not all the strong students were picked but there are strong students got picked. Most top national award winners were in.

It's not really a sustainable model. Will be interesting to see if applications take another nose dive for the Class of 2027.