TJ's Maligned Class of 2025 Produces MORE Regeneron Top 300s and ANOTHER Finalist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Not really.

No other school has seen a 120 point drop in PSAT scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These STS projects require connections to professors so naturally the hardworking and wealthy Asian students succeed.

Why don't white students have connections?

Bolded the relevant word in the original post

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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”.

Test scores are the best predictors of academic performance. So yes, test scores measure merit.

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SAT_ACT_on_Grades.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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”.

Test scores are the best predictors of academic performance. So yes, test scores measure merit.

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SAT_ACT_on_Grades.pdf

In that one, very focused study that isn’t really relevant. Different age group, different population, different objectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

[Anonymous]

Cool story, OP.
Please stop defining your kids’ life by what other people think of where they go to school, where they get into college, or what firms recruit them.
In all seriousness, just accept that there are people out there in the world who will think your kid is brilliant for getting into TJ and there will be others who question whether they benefitted from the change in admissions policies. But who cares?
Champion your kid to do the best they can do and become the best they can at what they choose to do. And be happy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

non-wealthy feeder middle schools are full of URMs, who are not competitive at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

It's been clear from the beginning that this class was selected based on ability instead of prep. THey will continue to shine. Their college outcomes will be one of the best on record and TJ will soon be back at #1.

Did they happen to be selected out of pure luck? Nothing about the selection process selects for ability except the self-selection process that creates the applicant pool in the first place.

[Anonymous]

More FCPS kids

FCPS 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars, with their project names in italics, are:

Sanchali Banerjee: LUSO-GenAI: A Novel Framework Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) To Synthesize Spatial Land Use Strategy Through Economic-Environmental Payoff Optimization.

Marina Lin: A Carbon-Aware Ant Colony System Algorithm for the Sustainable Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem.

Phoebe Pan: Data Augmentation Strategies for Improved PM2.5 Forecasting Using Transformer Architectures.

Samvrit Vasudev Rao: A Novel AI Framework for Personalized COPD Treatment Planning: Integrating EHR Analytics and Phenotype-Based Weighted Predictions.

Patrick Shi: Integrative Genomic Analysis Identifies Novel Causal Genes of Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Jaydon Shuan Sun: Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Hirshfeld Surface Analysis of 18-Crown-6 Stabilized Potassium and Ammonium Salt of Oxalatotriphenylstannate.

Avnith Vijayram: Graph Networks and Game Theory to Predict Gene Expression Pathways and Cardiotoxicity in Cardiac Cells.

Ray Zhang: Biofilm Composition in Clinical Isolates of Fungal Fusarium and Development of a Multi-Targeted Antifungal Treatment to Inhibit Proliferation.


Wow! The Asian-American minorities are killing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

It's been clear from the beginning that this class was selected based on ability instead of prep. THey will continue to shine. Their college outcomes will be one of the best on record and TJ will soon be back at #1.

Maybe the usual suspects who do not shine even when rigor and standards are diluted could benefit by doing some prep? Cause their ability is not at par right now ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

It's been clear from the beginning that this class was selected based on ability instead of prep. THey will continue to shine. Their college outcomes will be one of the best on record and TJ will soon be back at #1.

Maybe the usual suspects who do not shine even when rigor and standards are diluted could benefit by doing some prep? Cause their ability is not at par right now ...

I know so glad they eliminated the cheating and are now using merit.

Right and you know for a fact that these kids would not have been admitted in the old policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

It's been clear from the beginning that this class was selected based on ability instead of prep. THey will continue to shine. Their college outcomes will be one of the best on record and TJ will soon be back at #1.

Did they happen to be selected out of pure luck? Nothing about the selection process selects for ability except the self-selection process that creates the applicant pool in the first place.

No, they select the very top students from each school. They use merit now, but in the past, they were admitting students from wealthy feeders who had early access to the admissions test.

Please explain how the essays ensure the very top are selected?

[Anonymous]

Watch out - they might help China not the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

TJ will soon be back at #1.

No. There were more SOL failures in 2022-23 than the year prior, so the next ranking may well be lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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...

TJ will soon be back at #1.

No. There were more SOL failures in 2022-23 than the year prior, so the next ranking may well be lower.

Jeez, now we're maligning the class of 2025?