How many kids are in TJ waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Anyone has idea?
Is there still any chance being admitted from the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Atleast 1000

[Anonymous]

600, told by my child

[Anonymous]

do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.

So, the students on the wait-list are ranked?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.

So, the students on the wait-list are ranked?

It’s a list, not a pile. Do you think they select people from the waitlist randomly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.

So, the students on the wait-list are ranked?

It’s a list, not a pile. Do you think they select people from the waitlist randomly?

It’s a list.
But it’s not a linear list. It’s a strategic list that is adjustable based on their prioritizing equity. And they aren’t about to share the details of it with you or anyone else because it doesn’t necessarily read as “fair” in a traditional sense.
In other words, if a kid from the Centreville HS pyramid decides not to go—they may decide to take the next “in line” on the list from Centreville HS pyramid. Or, they might say “okay here’s our opportunity to admit another kid from the Justice HS pyramid.” But it’s highly unlikely that they will admit a kid from the already over-represented Langley pyramid even if he is technically “next” in line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

As PP illustrated in above example, it depends.
If the middle school in question is Cooper or Longfellow or Louise Archer, probably not. But if the MS you’re describing is in an area that has been underrepresented in the TJ student population, then yeah they’ll want to be sure that school still has some representation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Atleast 1000

this doesn't make sense

[Anonymous]

When we attended the TJ presentation at our local MS, they shared that waitlist moves first by 1.5% quota within the school, and then by merit.

Assume school X has 7 allocated seats, and made exactly 7 offers. If 2 kids decline the offer, they would first offer the slots to 2 kids from same school. If no one accepts, those seats open up to general pool.

In case of Carson, Longfellow et al, allocated seats are already full, so kids there move off the waitlist based on overall merit pool

[Anonymous]

Many kids who are looking at TJ will be much better served at Basis in McLean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:do waitlist admissions also occur by region? For example if only 10 kids were admitted from an FCPS middle school, and 8 accepted, do they look for 2 more students from that particular middle school on the waitlist?

No, when a student doesn’t accept the admissions offer the next student who is first on the waitlist gets offered a spot.

So, the students on the wait-list are ranked?

It’s a list, not a pile. Do you think they select people from the waitlist randomly?

It’s a list.
But it’s not a linear list. It’s a strategic list that is adjustable based on their prioritizing equity. And they aren’t about to share the details of it with you or anyone else because it doesn’t necessarily read as “fair” in a traditional sense.
In other words, if a kid from the Centreville HS pyramid decides not to go—they may decide to take the next “in line” on the list from Centreville HS pyramid. Or, they might say “okay here’s our opportunity to admit another kid from the Justice HS pyramid.” But it’s highly unlikely that they will admit a kid from the already over-represented Langley pyramid even if he is technically “next” in line.

Proof?
Are you the admission officers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we attended the TJ presentation at our local MS, they shared that waitlist moves first by 1.5% quota within the school, and then by merit.

Assume school X has 7 allocated seats, and made exactly 7 offers. If 2 kids decline the offer, they would first offer the slots to 2 kids from same school. If no one accepts, those seats open up to general pool.

In case of Carson, Longfellow et al, allocated seats are already full, so kids there move off the waitlist based on overall merit pool

Do you know if the 1.5% percentage is based on the overall MS numbers, or number of 8th graders?

Asking because in case of Kilmer, the school has 1,148 students, which should result in 17 slots (if calculated as 1.5% of the total school numbers). But only 13 offers have been made.

[Anonymous]

Never mind, just saw it is the 8th grade population.