Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

For our waitlisted student- Two TJ grads just advised he take as many AP classes at our base school and press for college courses when done with AP classes.

[Anonymous]

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

Congrats! Hope your child decides to enroll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For our waitlisted student- Two TJ grads just advised he take as many AP classes at our base school and press for college courses when done with AP classes.

How do you enroll in college course while in HS?

[Anonymous]

Students can enroll in GMU classes if prerequisites are completed and advisor/school approves.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][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."[/quote]

The admissions are technically race blind. The experience factors related to ESL, learning disabilities, and lower income schools. From the press release:
“The new admissions process continues to be merit based and is race blind. Students are allocated a number by which to be identified during the process. Admissions evaluators do not know the race, ethnicity, or gender of any applicant,” a school system news release said.

[Anonymous]

Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. That’s why that press release was written that way. Litigation CYA. And newspapers just cut and pasted it without any deeper dive. Even the Post.

[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.

I think this is probably because anyone who was already in private school likely applied to other private schools for high school. Since TJ decisions *just came out* many people didn't even have their kids complete the TJ application process. Our contracts became binding on June 1 and TJ decisions were not going to be released in time. TJ is great and all, but not worth being on the hook for a year of private school tuition. (mom of TJ student... and rising private school freshman)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

It seems transparent and much less easily gamed. Overall a solid improvement over the old process which favored kids who purchased their admission at a prep center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

It seems transparent and much less easily gamed. Overall a solid improvement over the old process which favored kids who purchased their admission at a prep center.

If it’s so transparent, do tell us what the magic formula to find the top 1.5% by school is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

It seems transparent and much less easily gamed. Overall a solid improvement over the old process which favored kids who purchased their admission at a prep center.

How is it transparent? They gave no weighting for experience factors. There is no test score. They gave no information about score on SIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

It seems transparent and much less easily gamed. Overall a solid improvement over the old process which favored kids who purchased their admission at a prep center.

LOL! Your statement is provably wrong. If it is transparent it can be optimized or in your words gamed. But no point arguing with an idiot who does not understand such a simple and basic concept.

[Anonymous]

Carson MS. 4.0 GPA. Asian. Algebra 1.

sleepless nights starts for my second son.

[Anonymous]

I would be willing to bet good money that when you actually see the incoming class, you’ll see about as many East and Southeast Asians as you always do. The big losers will be the South Asians.

[Anonymous]

Waitlisted. And my son's friends who applied all waitlisted. In previous years the waitlist was around 50 students and actually meant a chance at an offer. Now, I suspect the wait pool is everyone that wasn't one of the 550 offered. I haven't heard of a single rejection yet. Honestly I think this false hope is cruel and I'm working on setting my son's expectations.