Class 2025 TJHSST Results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it sounds crazy (okay— it is crazy but I have a friend with a 7th grader who just legally separated from her husband for TJ admissions. They’ll live in the same house separate bedrooms”, she’ll get custody, and she doesn’t work. So her kid will technically be FARMs his TJ admissions year.

They’ve also considered the possibly pulling the kid from the MS AAP Center to his not very good base MS. But it’s... not very good. So, after the last year, they are also trying to figure out whether home school or BASIS McLean would be a more academically rigorous option that keeps their kid out of the AAP Center pool.

There are apparently several consultants already working with parents to position 2026 kids under the new standards.

They are also Indian Muslims, which they consider to be multiracial, not Asian for TJ Admissions purposes.

They moved here for TJ and spent years with TJ as the goal. They plan to do what it takes.

Now that the formula is known, many people will game it.

Hint - FCPS does not require any documentation to register your child for free/reduced price lunch. Easiest way to get an advantage! I’m sure there were families that did it this year. 31% of FCPS students are Farms and 25% of the incoming class is FARMS?

I’m guessing that either FARMS was heavily weighted in the ranking OR families “in the know” gamed this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it sounds crazy (okay— it is crazy but I have a friend with a 7th grader who just legally separated from her husband for TJ admissions. They’ll live in the same house separate bedrooms”, she’ll get custody, and she doesn’t work. So her kid will technically be FARMs his TJ admissions year.

They’ve also considered the possibly pulling the kid from the MS AAP Center to his not very good base MS. But it’s... not very good. So, after the last year, they are also trying to figure out whether home school or BASIS McLean would be a more academically rigorous option that keeps their kid out of the AAP Center pool.

There are apparently several consultants already working with parents to position 2026 kids under the new standards.

They are also Indian Muslims, which they consider to be multiracial, not Asian for TJ Admissions purposes.

They moved here for TJ and spent years with TJ as the goal. They plan to do what it takes.

Now that the formula is known, many people will game it.

Hint - FCPS does not require any documentation to register your child for free/reduced price lunch. Easiest way to get an advantage! I’m sure there were families that did it this year. 31% of FCPS students are Farms and 25% of the incoming class is FARMS?

I’m guessing that either FARMS was heavily weighted in the ranking OR families “in the know” gamed this.

I know a 2 professional family living in an 800k+ home that registered FARMs this year for Taj admissions. Not sure if their kid was admitted. They justified it as all kids got FARMS this year. But, the whole system is so badly thought out, they didn’t need to justify it to me at all. My TJ kids a junior and basing admissions decisions on whether your parents sign up for FARMs during a pandemic when all kids are opted in is just ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Are the stats out that AAP Center FCPS students have a lower acceptance than private schools?…or is this an assumption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Few more hours... results will be out
No more discussions on TJ admissions...
Hope everything will be alright..

Nope, especially this year, there will be a lot of outrage as super qualified kids are rejected and mediocre students get in. And everyone will be waiting for the break down by school, gender and race.

Super qualified kids have been rejected every single year of TJ's history.

Mediocre kids have been admitted in every single year of TJ's history.

The number of mediocre kids that get admitted has risen sharply as the test prep industry flourishes - because the entire point of test prep is to take students who otherwise would not have qualified and pose them as qualified. You would know this if you'd been connected with the school for a significant length of time - long enough to see how the school changes through generations.

Do you have any evidence to sugget this claim? All TJ studentts I know have always been at top 1% in thier classes throughtout elementary and middle school.

[Anonymous]

I hope the people gaming the system enjoy their new middle schools. At some point in time people will realize their kids will be fine at their base high school. All this angst for what reason?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the people gaming the system enjoy their new middle schools. At some point in time people will realize their kids will be fine at their base high school. All this angst for what reason?

It’s your residency as of application date, which is late February of 8th grade. So, less than a semester, for kids who are planning long commutes and to not attend their base high school. The kids will live at home and carpool in with friends part of 2nd semester of 8th grade. They’ll know some kids— the TJ pod they go with. And well supplement to make sure. They don’t get behind. Their club sports and ECs, music teacher, supplemental STEM, science fair projects, neighborhood friends, family house, etc stays the same. My kid would rather spend 3-4 months (12-16weeks, 60-80 days) at a crappy school with a minimal workload for a few hours a day than put in the kid of work his sibling did to qualify. And, I’m s a small financial price to pay for a guaranteed seat at TJ. Cheaper and much less of a risk, expense and a hassle And if they come out of someplace like Carson or RRMS AAP, Podunk Honors in science and math, non-honors in everything else will be a breeze. With all the O Days in the spring and 8th grades not counting for TJ admissions after Q1, we’ll probably spend several weeks next spring in our home country.

They won’t be a part of the crappy school community. And they certainly won’t go on to the crappy HS. They will just take up a seat in the classroom for a few days. How hard can it be to be at the top of your class at Poe?

[Anonymous]

I hope teachers hold the line and refuse to dilute the rigor of the curriculum or the grading standards. Then the social experiment can do what substandard kids or kids who think hours of commute plus hours of homework doesn’t apply to them have always done at TJ— drop back to their base school. It will be very interesting to see what the class of 2025 looks like in a year when the dead weight is gone.

[Anonymous]

Wow, it is very interesting to see how mean-spirited some people can be to other people’s children. I’m not sure I realized before how very narrowly focused some people can be on themselves, without much thought for others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it sounds crazy (okay— it is crazy but I have a friend with a 7th grader who just legally separated from her husband for TJ admissions. They’ll live in the same house separate bedrooms”, she’ll get custody, and she doesn’t work. So her kid will technically be FARMs his TJ admissions year.

They’ve also considered the possibly pulling the kid from the MS AAP Center to his not very good base MS. But it’s... not very good. So, after the last year, they are also trying to figure out whether home school or BASIS McLean would be a more academically rigorous option that keeps their kid out of the AAP Center pool.

There are apparently several consultants already working with parents to position 2026 kids under the new standards.

They are also Indian Muslims, which they consider to be multiracial, not Asian for TJ Admissions purposes.

They moved here for TJ and spent years with TJ as the goal. They plan to do what it takes.

Da f**k! Is that based on Qarni's advice? Helping out his peeps?

[Anonymous]

All Asians should begin checking the multi-racial box when they admit their kids to FCPS. After all, it's optional info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All Asians should begin checking the multi-racial box when they admit their kids to FCPS. After all, it's optional info.

+1 FCPS set up this stupid system. Cant blame people for playing their hand the best they can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, it is very interesting to see how mean-spirited some people can be to other people’s children. I’m not sure I realized before how very narrowly focused some people can be on themselves, without much thought for others.

Yep. It's always there, just under the surface. People love to talk a good game, but they also view everything as a zero sum game. So when it actually comes to expanding access to the whole community, they freak out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, it is very interesting to see how mean-spirited some people can be to other people’s children. I’m not sure I realized before how very narrowly focused some people can be on themselves, without much thought for others.

Yep. It's always there, just under the surface. People love to talk a good game, but they also view everything as a zero sum game. So when it actually comes to expanding access to the whole community, they freak out.

Don't act holier-than-thou. Everyone is like that.
- Whites don't like the "Prepped Asians" who take away seats from their naturally gifted kids. Never mind they spend a fortune prepping for college admissions or pointless endeavors that involve chasing a ball down the field.
- Blacks don't like immigration in general because they think immigrants take away their jobs.
- Blacks don't like Asians because they open stores in their neighborhoods. Never mind that they themselves don't want to open them.
- Indians don't like the Chinese and vice versa.

I could go on.. It's called "civil society" for a reason. Everyone is expected to act in a civil manner yet there are laws against uncivil behavior.

[Anonymous]

Does that mean that rich people will now want their kids in Herndon Middle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does that mean that rich people will now want their kids in Herndon Middle?

Seems like the easiest path is to self identify as multiracial and send your kid to an “underrepresented MS” for the last semester of 8th grade, yes.