TJ admissions now verifying free and reduced price meal status for successful 2026 applicants

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economically disadvantaged experience factor points

Just curious ~ are there points for being LD?

There was supposed to be experiance factors if you had an IEP. However, it was so low of a bump that it made almost no difference.

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The TJ Admissions office is not doing due diligence on verifying free meals. If a parent signed the form and submitted it to the middle school, they are good to go. The middle schools (like all public schools in FCPS) do not require any kind of documentation and a signature of enough.

The TJ admissions office is ONLY looking at people who did not sign this form.

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Anonymous wrote:The TJ Admissions office is not doing due diligence on verifying free meals. If a parent signed the form and submitted it to the middle school, they are good to go. The middle schools (like all public schools in FCPS) do not require any kind of documentation and a signature of enough.

The TJ admissions office is ONLY looking at people who did not sign this form.

What form? The email specified several acceptable forms of documentation, none of which was a form that could be signed. They were all documentation from the government or the school system.

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Anonymous wrote:The TJ Admissions office is not doing due diligence on verifying free meals. If a parent signed the form and submitted it to the middle school, they are good to go. The middle schools (like all public schools in FCPS) do not require any kind of documentation and a signature of enough.

The TJ admissions office is ONLY looking at people who did not sign this form.

What form? The email specified several acceptable forms of documentation, none of which was a form that could be signed. They were all documentation from the government or the school system.

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Someone is posting pure BS.

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This whole thread is probably a sham.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is probably a sham.

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The admissions office would never rescind an offer once it is made. The lawsuits would be too expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is probably a sham.

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The admissions office would never rescind an offer once it is made. The lawsuits would be too expensive.

Well, parents who are waitlisted and watching this whole debacle won’t be sitting idle either. We should also fight tooth and nail.

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They must do the morally correct thing.

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I don’t get this…how was FCPS able to pull this ED stunt twice? Why didn’t the parents of class of 2025 do more?

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Maybe waitlisted parents should organize a rally?

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is probably a sham.

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The admissions office would never rescind an offer once it is made. The lawsuits would be too expensive.

If it goes to lawsuits, the public would know who cheated. the parents may not want it happen.
If they cannot show the proof, they don't get the extra points. Some students may drop to the wait pool. It's fair.

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Anonymous wrote:can someone pls post an actual email screen shot asking for verification?

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Seems fake.

1) The TJ Admissions office did ask for verification.

2) They have not (NOT!) pulled back any admissions offers as of today. The students on the waitlist who were offered admissions last Friday were given slots from kids in the original cohort turning down admission.

I think you both are right. They asked for verification, but ultimately will not recsind offers. There are too many parents that have in writing emails from the admissions office that anyone can check yes to these questions.

Source for 1 or 2?

For 1, the text of an email from the TJ admissions office was posted early in this thread. It looked to be legitimate.

For 2, someone has claimed to have had an offer rescinded but I have no idea if that's true.

A student at Frost had their admission rescinded. People are being moved from the accepted to waitlist pile. If waitlist offers were made last week then a much larger amount of awareness for waitlist movement would have been present. Only around 10 kids were moved off, which is much much smaller than the actual amount of people who rejected spots.

How do you know how many rejected spots or were moved off?

More BS.

Just because you are desperate to think you are right does not mean you dismiss other's info. This information was collected because only around 4 or so from Carson were taken off waitlist, 1 or 2 from Longfellow, and none from Rocky Run; this matches up with current statistics about who answered yes for the meals (DC goes to RRMS and he is good friends with many LMS and RCMS students). If the 40-50 rejected spots (3 rejected at Rocky Run itself, easy to estimate how many were rejected across county), were filled last Friday, then obviously there would be much more news about waitlist movement. Refrain from calling out "BS" if you do not know how to draw proper conclusions please and thank you.

The students who were taken off the waitlist are probably more than you thought. Not everybody disclosed this information and you only know a portion of those disclosed.
I agree there will be more offers being made on 24th.

Students notified that they were rescinded admission were made known on the same day that other students made offer acceptances. On the website it said accept results by the 24th for those accepted. If the 24th is the same day that further results come out, it is impossible for those offered on the 16th to be the waitlist cohort and not the truthful about FARMS acceptances. It just logistically does not make sense for them not to be related to FARMS. 24th will see lots of waitlist movement.

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Anonymous wrote:If your child is doing college level work in middle school, just skip HS and go to college. Seriously, if they really are that special. But I doubt it. They are probably very smart, but not a genius like Einstein. Smart, very well prepared, with rich parents paying for every afterschool class does not guarantee TJ admissions or a successful scientist.

PP and I are talking about a student at our school who does college level math (Calc BC) and has self-studied college level political science, economics, and international relations as well as highly advanced in science.

How old this student. I know someone in my child's class (6th grader) who is 3+ years older. That child by age should be in high school instead in 6th grade. That child is good in math but how do you compare performance of that child with normal age child?

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Anonymous wrote:If your child is doing college level work in middle school, just skip HS and go to college. Seriously, if they really are that special. But I doubt it. They are probably very smart, but not a genius like Einstein. Smart, very well prepared, with rich parents paying for every afterschool class does not guarantee TJ admissions or a successful scientist.

PP and I are talking about a student at our school who does college level math (Calc BC) and has self-studied college level political science, economics, and international relations as well as highly advanced in science.

How old this student. I know someone in my child's class (6th grader) who is 3+ years older. That child by age should be in high school instead in 6th grade. That child is good in math but how do you compare performance of that child with normal age child?

This student is in 8th grade and 13, younger than most of his peers.