How many kids are in TJ waitlist?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I think 8th grade is close to 600 students, so Minumum 1.5% of 600, 9 students

[Anonymous]

Could be close to the number or average students who decline the offer. If the average is 50, my best guest waitlisted could be 80. Definitely not 1000, not 600, not even 200.

They use data, and there are no points of giving false hope to so many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I think 8th grade is close to 600 students, so Minumum 1.5% of 600, 9 students

Got you. I think just a uniquely bad year for Kilmer then...

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is a bit inaccurate

The local priority disappears once the 1.5% quota is reached. After that it's a pretty linear list. The equity factors help determine your place on the list.

So if a middle school has 600 kids and only 5 would have gotten in, they would take the next 4 from THAT middle school to meet the quota. If 2 of those kids declined, those two spots would go to the next two kids on the list from THAT middle school.

If 10 kids got in from that middle school and 3 kids declined, they would take the next 2 from THAT middle school and 1 from the top of the wait-list

Once again, the wait-list rankings include adjustments for life experiences.