Resources to prepare for TJ essays

[Anonymous]

Can anyone point me in the direction of good online resources for DC to get an idea of what’s expected on the TJ admissions essays. We’re not interested in a formal prep course (and too late for that anyway). Thanks

[Anonymous]

Just practice your algebra up until unit 5-6 (mainly word problems) and get ready for essays that ask you about how your growing or a leader, ect. You may want to draft a few out and search up some practice questions. After that just hope. Good luck

[Anonymous]

Check Youtube

[Anonymous]

I am a TJ parent.

Above all else: please do not force your child to go to TJ if they don’t want to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ parent.

Above all else: please do not force your child to go to TJ if they don’t want to go.

+1

We just tell our child every day for the last 7 years that getting into TJ is the way to succeed and otherwise they are a complete failure.

We then just let them decide. We would support whatever decision they make.

[Anonymous]

Google tjhsst entrance exams. All the resources and videos come up. Good luck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ parent.

Above all else: please do not force your child to go to TJ if they don’t want to go.

+1

We just tell our child every day for the last 7 years that getting into TJ is the way to succeed and otherwise they are a complete failure.

We then just let them decide. We would support whatever decision they make.

Your sarcastic remark is not appreciated.

[Anonymous]

I actually got a chuckle out of the sarcastic remark... Good one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ parent.

Above all else: please do not force your child to go to TJ if they don’t want to go.

+1

We just tell our child every day for the last 7 years that getting into TJ is the way to succeed and otherwise they are a complete failure.

We then just let them decide. We would support whatever decision they make.

I love this. And as a parent of a TJ grad, I knew, unfortunately, of parents who talked to their kids like this.

It strikes a nerve with the people who don’t find it funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ parent.

Above all else: please do not force your child to go to TJ if they don’t want to go.

+1

We just tell our child every day for the last 7 years that getting into TJ is the way to succeed and otherwise they are a complete failure.

We then just let them decide. We would support whatever decision they make.

Your sarcastic remark is not appreciated.

It is funny and, unfortunately, true, which makes it sad. I know people who teach at Crossfield, Navy, and Oak Hill. They flat out say that there are kids in 3rd grade talking about how they need to study hard so they can go to TJ. There is 0% chance that is a kid researched and driven decision. I know parents who bribed their kids to attend TJ. I know parents making their kids apply for TJ. I may or may not have had conversations around kids whose parents are making them apply that said "kids can fail the exam by writing I don't want to go to TJ my parents made me come here on their essay."

But it is in no way shape or form a secret that there are kids who are at TJ only because their parents want them there and the kid was unwilling to assert themselves. And it is not a small percentage of the kids. It is not that the kids who are there cannot do the work, the vast majority can. A kid getting great grades does not equate to a kid who wants to be there.