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Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

Oh is it

It is now with TJ's change to admissions policies.
Plus a smaller capacity.
On the other hand there is a maximum quota per school, that makes the at large spots easier to get from other schools that don't have lots of qualified candidates.

Within top Loudoun schools like Stone Hill, AOS is harder than TJ.

Wow, didn't know this.

Yeah, from our "poor" Loudoun middle school, its pretty easy to get into AOS.

Please don’t misrepresent facts. AOS is not “easy” to get into from any school.

I’ve seen who has been admitted from our school, they are smart no doubt but you are way overdramatizing it. You just happen to go to a school with way too many applicants. Also, the families I talk to who actually sent their kids their day their kid is a giant stress box with way too much homework. So, be careful what you wish for.

This is very true. My son got in, but it would
Have meant he would have had to repeat 2 years of math because he was so far ahead and they move as a cohort. I’m so glad he didn’t go because the workload is stupid. However, he got into Berkeley COE and didn’t need to go through the stress of AOS to get into a top engineering school.

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This is very true. My son got in, but it would
Have meant he would have had to repeat 2 years of math because he was so far ahead and they move as a cohort.

This is not true. He would get to calculus faster by not attending AOS, but the math they do take is not a repeat of geometry/algebra 2/ trig.
They cover many new topics, and even when repeating, they do things in different ways.

For example, in the 9th grade class, there is transformations, and rotations with matrices.
I'm not sure if this is true across all LCPS, but my son's algebra 2 class did not cover Gaussian elimination.

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This is very true. My son got in, but it would
Have meant he would have had to repeat 2 years of math because he was so far ahead and they move as a cohort.

This is not true. He would get to calculus faster by not attending AOS, but the math they do take is not a repeat of geometry/algebra 2/ trig.
They cover many new topics, and even when repeating, they do things in different ways.

For example, in the 9th grade class, there is transformations, and rotations with matrices.
I'm not sure if this is true across all LCPS, but my son's algebra 2 class did not cover Gaussian elimination.

It reallly doesn’t matter. For my son to jump back that far would have been terribly boring. He studied math concepts for fun on his own and is finishing out his senior year taking math and science at George Mason, as he maxed out at multi variable calculus the end of 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

Oh is it

It is now with TJ's change to admissions policies.
Plus a smaller capacity.
On the other hand there is a maximum quota per school, that makes the at large spots easier to get from other schools that don't have lots of qualified candidates.

Within top Loudoun schools like Stone Hill, AOS is harder than TJ.

So, I guess no chance for my Stone Hill kid. Does anyone know what is the quota for Stone Hill?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

Oh is it

It is now with TJ's change to admissions policies.
Plus a smaller capacity.
On the other hand there is a maximum quota per school, that makes the at large spots easier to get from other schools that don't have lots of qualified candidates.

Within top Loudoun schools like Stone Hill, AOS is harder than TJ.

So, I guess no chance for my Stone Hill kid. Does anyone know what is the quota for Stone Hill?

Probably 10 seats, though this might be 10 to AOS and 11 to AET.

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Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

Oh is it

It is now with TJ's change to admissions policies.
Plus a smaller capacity.
On the other hand there is a maximum quota per school, that makes the at large spots easier to get from other schools that don't have lots of qualified candidates.

Within top Loudoun schools like Stone Hill, AOS is harder than TJ.

Wow, didn't know this.

Yeah, from our "poor" Loudoun middle school, its pretty easy to get into AOS.

Please don’t misrepresent facts. AOS is not “easy” to get into from any school.

I’ve seen who has been admitted from our school, they are smart no doubt but you are way overdramatizing it. You just happen to go to a school with way too many applicants. Also, the families I talk to who actually sent their kids their day their kid is a giant stress box with way too much homework. So, be careful what you wish for.

This is very true. My son got in, but it would
Have meant he would have had to repeat 2 years of math because he was so far ahead and they move as a cohort. I’m so glad he didn’t go because the workload is stupid. However, he got into Berkeley COE and didn’t need to go through the stress of AOS to get into a top engineering school.

This is so true - the workload is unbelieavable.

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Thats something I dont get it. The workload should only be specific to Math and Science on alternate days. I thought AOL is best of both worlds compared to TJ where you have to go there all days.

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If they are deriving from top 3.5% students for each school, and suppose the school has 400 8th graders then does it translate to 14 kids for AOS and AET total or 14 kids for each of AOS and AET? Are any kids offered admission to both AOS and AET (of course they have to eventually select one but get both choices)? Does anyone know?

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Anonymous wrote:Thats something I dont get it. The workload should only be specific to Math and Science on alternate days. I thought AOL is best of both worlds compared to TJ where you have to go there all days.

The workload on both these subjects are very demanding and challenging; specially Freshman Maths. Even if the child aced Maths in 8th grade, its nowhere near a breeze here.

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We know at least 5 families who have sent a child to AOS or AET and none of the kids like it. All say it’s really stressful and too much work. And I know plenty of kids who have attended their regular zoned HS and gotten into top colleges. So I’m not really sure there is even a correlation.

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Anonymous wrote:We know at least 5 families who have sent a child to AOS or AET and none of the kids like it. All say it’s really stressful and too much work. And I know plenty of kids who have attended their regular zoned HS and gotten into top colleges. So I’m not really sure there is even a correlation.

It is very hard on the kids, too much pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:We know at least 5 families who have sent a child to AOS or AET and none of the kids like it. All say it’s really stressful and too much work. And I know plenty of kids who have attended their regular zoned HS and gotten into top colleges. So I’m not really sure there is even a correlation.

It is very hard on the kids, too much pressure.

Compared to standard public school where we have to give a 50% even if they do nothing and offer endless retakes and essentially can’t fail or even grade harshly without them crying at us, yeah, I bet it is. The majority of LCPS kids who grew up in what we have had to dumb down to call school now are not prepared to actually be responsible for a workload.

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Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

I guess it isn’t a right fit for my kid then. He wants to be able to socialize and enjoy high school along with getting strong academics. Sounds like the parents are really competitive too. He is in 6th in AAP Fairfax and were thinking about switching to LCPS in a year to get away from TJ and it’s toxicity, but never mind!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

I guess it isn’t a right fit for my kid then. He wants to be able to socialize and enjoy high school along with getting strong academics. Sounds like the parents are really competitive too. He is in 6th in AAP Fairfax and were thinking about switching to LCPS in a year to get away from TJ and it’s toxicity, but never mind!

AOS is still going to give him that opportunity if he wants it because he will be at his home school on either A or B days for classes like English and history and electives. You don’t attend AOS full time

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is AOS

Loudoun Academy of Science, a tougher admit than TJ.

I guess it isn’t a right fit for my kid then. He wants to be able to socialize and enjoy high school along with getting strong academics. Sounds like the parents are really competitive too. He is in 6th in AAP Fairfax and were thinking about switching to LCPS in a year to get away from TJ and it’s toxicity, but never mind!

You should still move to LCPS. The county high schools all offer a slew of AP and DE courses and you can make your workload as rigorous as you would like. There isn't that much emphasis on the kids who go to the Academies, especially if you don't move to the Brambleton area, which I wouldn't recommend because that is where all the tiger families live.