Class 2025 TJHSST Results

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Anonymous wrote:20% decline in offers to Asian students from previous years. Mission accomplished!

Admission percentage for Whites increased by 25%.

The percentage for Asian dropped by 30%.

This was predicted in the lawsuit.

The NUMBER of Asian students barely dropped (-16%).

[Anonymous]

I would imagine the steep decline in Asian offers will provide lots of evidence for the current lawsuit.

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They need to open up the classes that are only available at TJ to any FCPS high school student. So many qualified kids (of all races!) and only 550 slots. #giveaccesstoall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would imagine the steep decline in Asian offers will provide lots of evidence for the current lawsuit.

Asians made by 50.59% of the applicant pool. They make up 54.36% of the class. I don’t see how this hurt Asians?

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Look at the decline in percent of offers to Asian American kids combined with statements from Qarni, Brabrand and many school board members about Asian American students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine the steep decline in Asian offers will provide lots of evidence for the current lawsuit.

Asians made by 50.59% of the applicant pool. They make up 54.36% of the class. I don’t see how this hurt Asians?

Exactly. I’m not sure how they have the audacity to complain. It’s so gross.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine the steep decline in Asian offers will provide lots of evidence for the current lawsuit.

Asians made by 50.59% of the applicant pool. They make up 54.36% of the class. I don’t see how this hurt Asians?

Look at the percentage from previous years. Steep decline this year. Look at the press release — they report changes from previous years for each racial group other than Asians. You cited their press release without any thinking or analyzing.

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+1000 - if TJ's mission was to win Science Olympiad and place kids as Intel or Siemens finalists or to get kids into Ivy League schools, you might have something of a point with the sports comparison.

But it isn't. So you don't.

DP. Are you sure about that? TJ is ranked as the #1 school in the country and carries a ton of prestige largely due to winning many academic competitions. A lot of people in Fairfax would view that as TJ's most important feature, and they would hate to see anything change at TJ in a way that would cause it to drop in the rankings and win fewer competitions.

^ I don't necessarily agree that TJ's mission is to be the #1 school. The fact that it is the #1 school undeniably draws a lot of people to Fairfax county.

The mission is to provide the best possible education for STEM oriented, capable students who will thrive at such environment and that is what TJ is doing.
Yes, I'm sure about that. The fact that the school DOES win many competitions and is ranked highly is not evidence that doing so is its mission.

TJ is objectively NOT providing the best possible education for those students when there are plenty of STEM oriented, capable students from various backgrounds who are excluded from the school by an admissions process that results in de facto segregation. No, it is not de jure segregation, but the impact is the same as if it were.

There is no end of peer-reviewed, well-respected research that cements the idea that legitimate diversity across a broad range of metrics results in a stronger learning environment. TJ has NEVER provided such an environment for its students, and as such, they graduate without much of the cultural literacy that is gained by students at equally rigorous but more diverse schools.

Exactly right! The old system was corrupt and gamed. The newer one may not be perfect but it is a huge improvemetn.

Huge improvement in racism against Asians.

Yes, Asian hate is strong in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to open up the classes that are only available at TJ to any FCPS high school student. So many qualified kids (of all races!) and only 550 slots. #giveaccesstoall

and who's going to pay for it to be ran for what, ten kids, at every base school?

Running a class with small attendance costs money for the teacher and the supplies and sucks up an entire classroom that could be used towards a class that would serve more of the school's population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to open up the classes that are only available at TJ to any FCPS high school student. So many qualified kids (of all races!) and only 550 slots. #giveaccesstoall

and who's going to pay for it to be ran for what, ten kids, at every base school?

Running a class with small attendance costs money for the teacher and the supplies and sucks up an entire classroom that could be used towards a class that would serve more of the school's population.

Academy model for classes with a lab component.

Virtual classes for classes w/o a lab.

Build on what we learned this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would imagine the steep decline in Asian offers will provide lots of evidence for the current lawsuit.

Asians made by 50.59% of the applicant pool. They make up 54.36% of the class. I don’t see how this hurt Asians?

Look at the percentage from previous years. Steep decline this year. Look at the press release — they report changes from previous years for each racial group other than Asians. You cited their press release without any thinking or analyzing.

It's telling how they listed the percent increase of all groups, but did not say that Asians decreased. Just that they remained in a majority. Very deceptive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So this whole TJ reform thing is to increase white and decrease asian students ? Why is that a surprise? Racism and white privilege still thrive.

Yes. That was always the point. Please don’t tell me you think Carson, RRMS, Longfellow, Cooper parents GAF about black kids. They just hate the Asians taking white seats.

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Anonymous wrote:# of Asian students in the class of 2024 = 355
# of Asian students in the class of 2025 = 299

Cry me a river. Seriously.

# of Black students in the class of 2024 = TS (less than 10)
# of Black students in the class of 2025 = 39

# of Hispanic students in the class of 2024 = 16
# of Hispanic students in the class of 2025 = 62

56 fewer Asian kids, but they made 100 more offers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20% decline in offers to Asian students from previous years. Mission accomplished!

Admission percentage for Whites increased by 25%.

The percentage for Asian dropped by 30%.

This was predicted in the lawsuit.

The NUMBER of Asian students barely dropped (-16%).

But, the number of kids offered admission was 100 more than last year.

[Anonymous]

I know it sounds crazy (okay— it is crazy but I have a friend with a 7th grader who just legally separated from her husband for TJ admissions. They’ll live in the same house separate bedrooms”, she’ll get custody, and she doesn’t work. So her kid will technically be FARMs his TJ admissions year.

They’ve also considered the possibly pulling the kid from the MS AAP Center to his not very good base MS. But it’s... not very good. So, after the last year, they are also trying to figure out whether home school or BASIS McLean would be a more academically rigorous option that keeps their kid out of the AAP Center pool.

There are apparently several consultants already working with parents to position 2026 kids under the new standards.

They are also Indian Muslims, which they consider to be multiracial, not Asian for TJ Admissions purposes.

They moved here for TJ and spent years with TJ as the goal. They plan to do what it takes.