TJ prep classes

[Anonymous]

If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

[Anonymous]

Learn to write essays and what the prompts are.
Someone posted in either this forum or FCPS, a program with 80% success rate in admissions. I am skeptical.

[Anonymous]

View it as more of a lottery for kids meeting the minimum thresholds and you won’t be as frustrated.

[Anonymous]

There is no frustration, just only looking for replies about specifically TJ prep classes, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Can't beat the biggest and the best. Almost everyone at TJ has used them

http://fcps.edu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

Most kids that eventually excel at TJ would have started their preparation from 5th/6th grade. Most of this preparation happens by taking the most challenging courses they are allowed to take at their middle school, engaging in year long math, english, and science afterschool enrichment programs, preparing for contests like math olympiad, math counts, amc, robotics, science olympiads, involvement in stem oriented clubs, etc. Sure there are TJ prep companies that promise prep in three to six months, but they at best serve only as a review for students who already have a solid foundation in math, english, and science.

As a parent your support and involvement on a daily basis in your son's preparation matters a lot. Whether you use Khan Academy, print free math worksheets, buy next grade level math/english/science workbooks from Amazon, or enroll him in enrichment centers like Kumon/Curie/AoPS/etc., it doesnt matter all that much. What matters is how committed your son is in pursuing STEM at the competitive TJ, and excising the discipline to commit to an afterschool learning schedule as a family. Parallel involvement in sports and music/art helps maintain the best physical and mental condition for his academic preparation. Getting into TJ is more of a lottery now, unfortunately, but your and his worry should be if he can survive adapting to the rigorous TJ curriculum once he makes it in. Even if he doesn't make it, the preparation effort will equip him to pursue the most challenging coursework and excel at the base school.

[Anonymous]

Curie has an amazing track record at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

Most kids that eventually excel at TJ would have started their preparation from 5th/6th grade. Most of this preparation happens by taking the most challenging courses they are allowed to take at their middle school, engaging in year long math, english, and science afterschool enrichment programs, preparing for contests like math olympiad, math counts, amc, robotics, science olympiads, involvement in stem oriented clubs, etc. Sure there are TJ prep companies that promise prep in three to six months, but they at best serve only as a review for students who already have a solid foundation in math, english, and science.

As a parent your support and involvement on a daily basis in your son's preparation matters a lot. Whether you use Khan Academy, print free math worksheets, buy next grade level math/english/science workbooks from Amazon, or enroll him in enrichment centers like Kumon/Curie/AoPS/etc., it doesnt matter all that much. What matters is how committed your son is in pursuing STEM at the competitive TJ, and excising the discipline to commit to an afterschool learning schedule as a family. Parallel involvement in sports and music/art helps maintain the best physical and mental condition for his academic preparation. Getting into TJ is more of a lottery now, unfortunately, but your and his worry should be if he can survive adapting to the rigorous TJ curriculum once he makes it in. Even if he doesn't make it, the preparation effort will equip him to pursue the most challenging coursework and excel at the base school.

Developing solid reading fluency and comprehension is important part of TJ/highschool prep and has to done starting in elementary school years, by and large at home. Make frequent visits to local public libraries a regular family affair, and have your child read an even mix of fictional and informational texts. Reading over multiple years is sustainable only when it is enjoyable. TJ curriculum requires entering students to be well read, and under-prepared students pay the price of stressing out over homeworks, difficulty understanding concepts, and struggling with written assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

The best way to prep Tj is to move to a crappy school district with score 2 middle school. 1.5% quota is enough for you.
If you are in a top middle school, like Longfellow, any prep is not enough to guarantee you, basically your chance is less than 5%. In the past three years, roughly 28/600 goes to Tj

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curie has an amazing track record at TJ.

Isn't that the one that had a stolen copy of some test that is no longer used?

Is TJ even any good anymore, if any tiger parent can buy their kid in? Or do the "prep" systems not actually work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curie has an amazing track record at TJ.

Isn't that the one that had a stolen copy of some test that is no longer used?

Is TJ even any good anymore, if any tiger parent can buy their kid in? Or do the "prep" systems not actually work?

Actually Asians admitted in Tj from 2021 to 2025 will have biggest advantages when they apply colleges. Half of their classmates are not good at all, any asian student can easily rank top 20%, they can get offers from top colleges before those top colleges figure out half of tjers are craps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curie has an amazing track record at TJ.

Isn't that the one that had a stolen copy of some test that is no longer used?

Is TJ even any good anymore, if any tiger parent can buy their kid in? Or do the "prep" systems not actually work?

Actually Asians admitted in Tj from 2021 to 2025 will have biggest advantages when they apply colleges. Half of their classmates are not good at all, any asian student can easily rank top 20%, they can get offers from top colleges before those top colleges figure out half of tjers are craps.

Among the most moronic post I have read on this forum this year. Are you really that dumb?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curie has an amazing track record at TJ.

Isn't that the one that had a stolen copy of some test that is no longer used?

Is TJ even any good anymore, if any tiger parent can buy their kid in? Or do the "prep" systems not actually work?

Their numbers are still amazing. 1/3 of the class of 2024 came from them.

They are still getting great results with just the essays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

Most kids that eventually excel at TJ would have started their preparation from 5th/6th grade. Most of this preparation happens by taking the most challenging courses they are allowed to take at their middle school, engaging in year long math, english, and science afterschool enrichment programs, preparing for contests like math olympiad, math counts, amc, robotics, science olympiads, involvement in stem oriented clubs, etc. Sure there are TJ prep companies that promise prep in three to six months, but they at best serve only as a review for students who already have a solid foundation in math, english, and science.

As a parent your support and involvement on a daily basis in your son's preparation matters a lot. Whether you use Khan Academy, print free math worksheets, buy next grade level math/english/science workbooks from Amazon, or enroll him in enrichment centers like Kumon/Curie/AoPS/etc., it doesnt matter all that much. What matters is how committed your son is in pursuing STEM at the competitive TJ, and excising the discipline to commit to an afterschool learning schedule as a family. Parallel involvement in sports and music/art helps maintain the best physical and mental condition for his academic preparation. Getting into TJ is more of a lottery now, unfortunately, but your and his worry should be if he can survive adapting to the rigorous TJ curriculum once he makes it in. Even if he doesn't make it, the preparation effort will equip him to pursue the most challenging coursework and excel at the base school.

Developing solid reading fluency and comprehension is important part of TJ/highschool prep and has to done starting in elementary school years, by and large at home. Make frequent visits to local public libraries a regular family affair, and have your child read an even mix of fictional and informational texts. Reading over multiple years is sustainable only when it is enjoyable. TJ curriculum requires entering students to be well read, and under-prepared students pay the price of stressing out over homeworks, difficulty understanding concepts, and struggling with written assignments.

Reading is often taken for granted. No amount of remedial courses in high school can makeup for lack of reading preparedness that should have started in elementary grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have any experience with any TJ prep classes, please advise with any information as I am exploring this for my soon to be 8th grader. Thank you kindly.

The best way to prep Tj is to move to a crappy school district with score 2 middle school. 1.5% quota is enough for you.
If you are in a top middle school, like Longfellow, any prep is not enough to guarantee you, basically your chance is less than 5%. In the past three years, roughly 28/600 goes to Tj

That's not how it works, unless the 600 is the number of students who applied from Longfellow.