TJ's Maligned Class of 2025 Produces MORE Regeneron Top 300s and ANOTHER Finalist
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Anonymous
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https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-student-named-finalist-2025-regeneron-science-talent-search
Eight Top 300 finalists this year as opposed to seven last year. But I thought that the new admissions process was leaving top talent behind? No other FCPS school produced a top 300 finalist this year... |
Anonymous
| I don’t think anyone has claimed that the top students at TJ aren’t still remarkable (and 8 vs 7 with an extra 100 in the student body isn’t a meaningful increase). The issue is that the rest isn’t the same quality. See the huge decline in NMSF, for example. |
Anonymous
You’re going to have to give another example. The NMSF decline is national. And I think it’s in part because Covid made it optional so the test scores declined as a result. Now- I think it’s more mandatory so we should see an increase. |
Anonymous
NMSF is done by percentages. There is no decline, only redistribution. There are less of them at TJ now. More of them somewhere else. |
Anonymous
Of course the top half of TJ class has overwhelming representation from four academically talented middle schools. FCPS needs this overwhelming representation to do these news releases. Same cant be said of the bottom quarter who struggle to keep up with basic courses. |
Anonymous
7 of the students went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 either went to Cooper or Longfellow, 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley first and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and another student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population). 0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools. |
Anonymous
of course, academically wealthy is what FCPS sees capable for advanced academics, similar to athletically wealthy for sports teams. Both require hardwork. |
Anonymous
without its top four middle schools, FCPS would be ranked in the bottom half VA school districts. Students hardwork matters, doesn't matter if they are from upper middle class or sports focused families. |
Anonymous
| These STS projects require connections to professors so naturally the hardworking and wealthy Asian students succeed. |
Anonymous
Why don't white students have connections? |
Anonymous
| I heard that at least one of these kids was rejected for 9th grade admissions and needed to enter as a froshmore. It’s shameful that the current admissions process is random enough to miss such an obviously stellar student. |
Anonymous
Because on the timed entrance test, they need to write it themselves. With research projects, they get a lot of help from others over many months. |
Anonymous
It's not really a test, it's an essay. Vibes uber alles, and apparently an STS finalist didn't say the right things in the right way to get in. Maybe the reader woke up on the wrong side of the bed? Or maybe the student couldn't toe the line between looking arrogant by talking too much about their achievements and looking unqualified by not talking enough about them. Who knows? Opacity is the name of the game, just like how TJ likes it. |
Anonymous
NMSF is an exam contest. So yes, you’re going to see a decline in winners of an exam contest when you stop overselecting for test taking ability. Stop equating exam scores with “merit”. |
Anonymous
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The old status quo crowd gets more embarrassing with every response.
Give it up. TJ is doing well and will be doing even better with an alum principal. |