TJ acceptances

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Anonymous wrote:Yk it’s really sad the people who are actually into STEM don’t get in… I know one of my kids friends got in with algebra in 8th and 3 B+ in 7th grade… at LEAST make the requirement geometry in 8th

Or require the students to have attempted one of the higher SES schools where more opportunities for acceleration exist!
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Ha, I know some one moved from McLean to a low SES school and yes, his son get in. I am not blaming him. The kid is smart and motivated indeed.

Either you are lying or TJ admissions office is, when they claim "Admissions evaluators/reviewers do not know the ... school ... of applicants."

Well, this one is obvious. The essay graders don't see the school (or race, sex, SES, etc.) of the applicant when they grade the essay. After all of the essays have been graded, each application would have a numerical score from essays, GPA, and experience factors. At that point, they can look at the school and offer admissions to the top scorers at each school.

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Anonymous wrote:Yk it’s really sad the people who are actually into STEM don’t get in… I know one of my kids friends got in with algebra in 8th and 3 B+ in 7th grade… at LEAST make the requirement geometry in 8th

Or require the students to have attempted one of the higher SES schools where more opportunities for acceleration exist!
/Sarcasm

Ha, I know some one moved from McLean to a low SES school and yes, his son get in. I am not blaming him. The kid is smart and motivated indeed.

Either you are lying or TJ admissions office is, when they claim "Admissions evaluators/reviewers do not know the ... school ... of applicants."

DP. The school comes into play at some point. They have a certain # of seats allocated for each MS.

Just like student race?

To be fair, it is race blind but they use a lot of proxies for race like SES, geography, ELL.

And the biggest beneficiaries is low income Asian.

I have never seen anyone on one of these forums prove this point. Where is the data showing how many low income Asians were admitted before the change compared to after the change? I think the same person must post on this website once a day in some forum or another using this statistic, with no proof.

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Anonymous wrote:Yk it’s really sad the people who are actually into STEM don’t get in… I know one of my kids friends got in with algebra in 8th and 3 B+ in 7th grade… at LEAST make the requirement geometry in 8th

Or require the students to have attempted one of the higher SES schools where more opportunities for acceleration exist!
/Sarcasm

Ha, I know some one moved from McLean to a low SES school and yes, his son get in. I am not blaming him. The kid is smart and motivated indeed.

Either you are lying or TJ admissions office is, when they claim "Admissions evaluators/reviewers do not know the ... school ... of applicants."

DP. The school comes into play at some point. They have a certain # of seats allocated for each MS.

Just like student race?

To be fair, it is race blind but they use a lot of proxies for race like SES, geography, ELL.

And the biggest beneficiaries is low income Asian.

There are fewer asians now under the new system. The objectively biggest beneficiaries are white kids. It stands to reason because Fairfax is largely white so a lot random selection process is going to select more white kids.

In 2010 and before Asian is around 35%. In 2015 Asian is about 50s%, between 2015 till covid Asian skyrocketed till 70% and up ( also this the same era with booming prep).
Then some people here claimed that TJ is historically belong to Asian. Well well…

It's been repeatedly shown here that Asian enrollment at TJ is currently at a historic high. In fact, the largest beneficiary of the selection change were low income Asians.

The percent of Asian students admitted compared to how many applied has decreased significantly. Technically there may be more Asian students now, but that is only because they have increased the class size to 550.

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Anonymous wrote:Yk it’s really sad the people who are actually into STEM don’t get in… I know one of my kids friends got in with algebra in 8th and 3 B+ in 7th grade… at LEAST make the requirement geometry in 8th

Or require the students to have attempted one of the higher SES schools where more opportunities for acceleration exist!
/Sarcasm

Ha, I know some one moved from McLean to a low SES school and yes, his son get in. I am not blaming him. The kid is smart and motivated indeed.

Either you are lying or TJ admissions office is, when they claim "Admissions evaluators/reviewers do not know the ... school ... of applicants."

DP. The school comes into play at some point. They have a certain # of seats allocated for each MS.

Just like student race?

To be fair, it is race blind but they use a lot of proxies for race like SES, geography, ELL.

And the biggest beneficiaries is low income Asian.

There are fewer asians now under the new system. The objectively biggest beneficiaries are white kids. It stands to reason because Fairfax is largely white so a lot random selection process is going to select more white kids.

In 2010 and before Asian is around 35%. In 2015 Asian is about 50s%, between 2015 till covid Asian skyrocketed till 70% and up ( also this the same era with booming prep).
Then some people here claimed that TJ is historically belong to Asian. Well well…

It's been repeatedly shown here that Asian enrollment at TJ is currently at a historic high. In fact, the largest beneficiary of the selection change were low income Asians.

The percent of Asian students admitted compared to how many applied has decreased significantly. Technically there may be more Asian students now, but that is only because they have increased the class size to 550.

There are fewer asians now than there were before the change. You would have to go back to a time when there was lower asian population in Fairfax to consider the current population a historic high.

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Anonymous wrote:Yk it’s really sad the people who are actually into STEM don’t get in… I know one of my kids friends got in with algebra in 8th and 3 B+ in 7th grade… at LEAST make the requirement geometry in 8th

Or require the students to have attempted one of the higher SES schools where more opportunities for acceleration exist!
/Sarcasm

Ha, I know some one moved from McLean to a low SES school and yes, his son get in. I am not blaming him. The kid is smart and motivated indeed.

Either you are lying or TJ admissions office is, when they claim "Admissions evaluators/reviewers do not know the ... school ... of applicants."

DP. The school comes into play at some point. They have a certain # of seats allocated for each MS.

Just like student race?

To be fair, it is race blind but they use a lot of proxies for race like SES, geography, ELL.

And the biggest beneficiaries is low income Asian.

There are fewer asians now under the new system. The objectively biggest beneficiaries are white kids. It stands to reason because Fairfax is largely white so a lot random selection process is going to select more white kids.

In 2010 and before Asian is around 35%. In 2015 Asian is about 50s%, between 2015 till covid Asian skyrocketed till 70% and up ( also this the same era with booming prep).
Then some people here claimed that TJ is historically belong to Asian. Well well…

Numbers don't lie. The number of Asians sttopped with the new process and white went up the most