TJ info sessions at MS

[Anonymous]

Does TJ do or have to hold in-school info sessions at all MS? Or do they only hold at the schools where don’t have 100s already applying?

[Anonymous]

Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

[Anonymous]

I believe that Carson has already held a TJ Info session this year. We have a 7th grader and did not attend. We already know what our child needs to do if he decides he wants to attend TJ. We will attend next year if he expresses an interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

If it's a low performing school in our area, you'll see very few 8th grade parents even after extensive outreach. Students show little interest in STEM, yet FCPS wants parents to push their kids to apply. On the other had for sports tryout, there is phenomenal turnout driven purely by student interest and parents enthusiastically support it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

Oops, I missed it yesterday. Does DC (7th) need to do anything this year if they plan to apply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

If it's a low performing school in our area, you'll see very few 8th grade parents even after extensive outreach. Students show little interest in STEM, yet FCPS wants parents to push their kids to apply. On the other had for sports tryout, there is phenomenal turnout driven purely by student interest and parents enthusiastically support it.

It doesn't have to be a feeder to see a lot of interest a lot of the center schools that don't send a lot of kids continue to have good interest but these kids sort of get the short end of this worst of both worlds admissions process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

Oops, I missed it yesterday. Does DC (7th) need to do anything this year if they plan to apply?

Do everything you can to support your child’s learning in advanced Math and English. Admission to TJ is an essay lottery, but once admitted, your DC's middle school math, english, and science skills determine whether they struggle, survive as an average, or excel at TJ.

[Anonymous]

For parents that went to info sessions, at ours when answering a question they said that a student has better chance to get accepted at MIT and Harvard if stay at base school than to compete against all the other TJ kids. Know that is speculated in posts here on DCUM, but I was surprised when it was said by to room of people. Is it a new talking point? I would have thought would just be silent on that and especially to not name any schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For parents that went to info sessions, at ours when answering a question they said that a student has better chance to get accepted at MIT and Harvard if stay at base school than to compete against all the other TJ kids. Know that is speculated in posts here on DCUM, but I was surprised when it was said by to room of people. Is it a new talking point? I would have thought would just be silent on that and especially to not name any schools.

Session we attended was… odd. It seemed more of a don’t apply session. Cannot even fully say why, but felt like our school was a stop they had to but did not want to do. People that were going to apply will still apply, but was still weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

Oops, I missed it yesterday. Does DC (7th) need to do anything this year if they plan to apply?

Get an A in math and science and do well in their other classes. That is pretty much what they need to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

Oops, I missed it yesterday. Does DC (7th) need to do anything this year if they plan to apply?

Get an A in math and science and do well in their other classes. That is pretty much what they need to do.

that's what I figured. thanks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS has a session and it’s a top feeder. Are these sessions mostly attended by 8th grade parents or are there a bunch of 7th grade parents too, if they know kid is planning to apply.

If it's a top feeder, you'll see a good number of 7th grade parents there as well.

Oops, I missed it yesterday. Does DC (7th) need to do anything this year if they plan to apply?

Get an A in math and science and do well in their other classes. That is pretty much what they need to do.

that's what I figured. thanks

Practice writing, writing the essays quickly and effectively is probably a thing you can improve through practice.

If you have the time and resources, engage in some sort of stem related activity so they have something to write about.

Astronomy, botany, birdwatching, robotics, science olympiad, math counts, something that demonstrates a prior interest in stem

[Anonymous]

People with agenda can visit top schools and "discourage" all they want as part of outreach. Yet, well over half a thousand from top schools apply, and a third of them get accepted and equal number get put on waiting list. After all, FCPS STEM talent is overwhelmingly nurtured in Carson, Cooper, Longfellow, and Rocky Run.

Instead of engaging in deceptive outreach practices, why can FCPS nurture STEM talent in low performing schools, before tricking a couple of their students to join the bottom segment at TJ?