TJ Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

The pp you are replying too is correct, I was there too and I heard one of the speech said so, and the other speech even said “sarcasticly” that they hit the “jackpot lottery” 4 years ago.
Its sad that these poor kids has to endure unbased hateful stigma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

So you just want to cherry pick that top half is not lottery and lower half is lottery .. what kind of “lottery” is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

So you just want to cherry pick that top half is not lottery and lower half is lottery .. what kind of “lottery” is that?

It's not a lottery at all. They select the top kids from each school. It is more merit based than the old system where many just purchased access to the entrance exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The TJ counselors said that Northern VA as a whole is seeing declining number of admissions to UVA (not sure about VTech) as UVA is trying to represent more of the state. In the past years, a disproportionate number of NOVA students got into UVA.

So there's a trend that's happening across all the NOVA high schools, that is also reflected in the lower numbers of UVA bound TJ students.

That's messed up I don't want my tax dollars going there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

These don't seem that great honestly I saw better from McLean and Langley high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

These don't seem that great honestly I saw better from McLean and Langley high school.

I don't think you have anywhere close to complete insight as to the college destinations for kids at these schools. The senior edition of TJ Today used to be public and was fairly comprehensive. Now you have maybe 1/3 of the class posting on an Instagram page.

Lots of great destinations for the TJ Class of 2025. And some excellent results for Langley and McLean as well this year (for example, each has 3 kids going to Stanford and a bunch of other Ivy/T20 acceptances).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

So you just want to cherry pick that top half is not lottery and lower half is lottery .. what kind of “lottery” is that?

I don't think that is what he is saying.

I think he is saying that the applicant pool is pretty binary and a cross section of that applicant pool is also going to be pretty binary with some kids that are well prepared for the rigor of TJ and other kids that are going to struggle there.

And to be fair I think it's more trimodal with about 10-15% really killing it academically another 60% doing OK with a few Bs and Cs sprinkled through their transcript and the bottom 25-30% that really should have left after freshman year and are graduating with a low GPA but their SAT score indicates they would have been an A student back at their base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

DS in TJ 2023 and 2nd in TJ 2026. I am not going to judge anything academic wise however the changes are quite noticeable and I am not making up. Messy bathroom and stolen incidents since 2025. DS needs to watch his phone at school due to bad experience while the older one used to leave phone in library overnight without any concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

These don't seem that great honestly I saw better from McLean and Langley high school.

I don't think you have anywhere close to complete insight as to the college destinations for kids at these schools. The senior edition of TJ Today used to be public and was fairly comprehensive. Now you have maybe 1/3 of the class posting on an Instagram page.

Lots of great destinations for the TJ Class of 2025. And some excellent results for Langley and McLean as well this year (for example, each has 3 kids going to Stanford and a bunch of other Ivy/T20 acceptances).

This is the last year of Stanford legacy admits and the more affluent schools saw a bump because of parent legacies.

[Anonymous]

UVA has extremely generous financial aid for students from low income families. The catch is that you actually have to be admitted. UVA has a 17% acceptance rate, George Mason has an 89% acceptance rate.

https://www.collegesimply.../virginia/

Tuition assistance for Virginia households.
UVA will cover the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board for in-state undergraduates with family income of less than $50K.

UVA will cover the cost of tuition and fees to in-state undergraduates with family income of less than $100K.

UVA provides tuition grants of $2,000 to Virginia families with income less than $150,000.

Manageable loans. UVA is committed to limiting need-based loans for students with financial need, so they graduate with less debt.

https://www.virginia.edu/...150%2C000.

BY THE NUMBERS

100%
UVA Meets the Full Amount of Demonstrated Need

35%
Of Students Awarded Some Level of Need-Based Assistance

#1
Financial Aid Among Public Colleges Nationally, Princeton Review, 2024

$82K
UVA grads’ average starting salary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow.. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Michigan..

wonder what the haters who claim that the process is a “lottery” with DEI goals, think?

Congratulations to all the graduates and I wish the best for them.

However, this year's graduates didn't do as well as last year. It's pretty clear to everyone.

I am a TJ class of 2025 parent, and I just do not understand why people post these comments about these kids. Today was TJ graduation and even the class representative's speeches reflected how they feel that they had to prove themselves to everyone because they were the first class with the new admission process. How do you know this year's graduates did not do as well as last year and who is everyone? Do you have a Class of 2025 graduate this year? Many more kids got into ivies and other top 20 colleges and did not post on the class Instagram, including my own kid.

I was there and this political nonsense was never brought up. After admissions change to essay lottery, this is the first class where there is a clear separation between top half of superoor academic performers, and a distant lower half that struggles all four years.

So you just want to cherry pick that top half is not lottery and lower half is lottery .. what kind of “lottery” is that?

I don't think that is what he is saying.

I think he is saying that the applicant pool is pretty binary and a cross section of that applicant pool is also going to be pretty binary with some kids that are well prepared for the rigor of TJ and other kids that are going to struggle there.

And to be fair I think it's more trimodal with about 10-15% really killing it academically another 60% doing OK with a few Bs and Cs sprinkled through their transcript and the bottom 25-30% that really should have left after freshman year and are graduating with a low GPA but their SAT score indicates they would have been an A student back at their base school.

NP.

Well put and I agree entirely.

- TJ parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

The number of students attending top schools is actually down from prior years and this year's class is 100 students larger. Fewer students attending MIT, CMU, JHU, Duke, Cal. Tech, U.Chi., U. Mich., UNC, GT, UVA, etc. GMU was the big gainer this year. Not sure why so people are doing a victory lap here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First batch to graduate under the new admissions process.

Solid outcomes. Congrats to all!

https://www.instagram.com/tj2025destinations?igsh=MXEwcm4xMXpnMmU2Zg==

Best class in a decade!

These don't seem that great honestly I saw better from McLean and Langley high school.

I don't think you have anywhere close to complete insight as to the college destinations for kids at these schools. The senior edition of TJ Today used to be public and was fairly comprehensive. Now you have maybe 1/3 of the class posting on an Instagram page.

Lots of great destinations for the TJ Class of 2025. And some excellent results for Langley and McLean as well this year (for example, each has 3 kids going to Stanford and a bunch of other Ivy/T20 acceptances).

TJ has one going to Stanford, not 3.