Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

waitlisted. How many students will be in the wait pool? what's the chance?

[Anonymous]

My child is waitlisted. According to the website, a waitpool of students will be created to offer additional students an opportunity to attend TJHSST when admitted applicants decline the offer of admission. Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first.

When is the wait going to be over

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is waitlisted. According to the website, a waitpool of students will be created to offer additional students an opportunity to attend TJHSST when admitted applicants decline the offer of admission. Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first.

When is the wait going to be over

feel tired

[Anonymous]

Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

[Anonymous]

If you’re waitlisted, don’t expect to be accepted.
They are expecting 98% of offers to be accepted. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Waitlisted from Longfellow, looking forward to McLean HS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJHSST Offers Admissions to 550 Students; Broadens Access to Students Who Have an Aptitude for STEM
News ReleaseJUNE 23, 2021
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), a Governor's School within Fairfax County Public Schools that is regularly ranked as one of the top public schools in the country, has offered admission to 550 students for the Class of 2025.

This is the first class to apply under the revised admissions process which eliminated the standardized admissions test for TJHSST, eliminated the $100 application fee, raised the minimum GPA, and expanded the freshman class from 480 to 550. Seats in the TJHSST freshman class were also allocated for the top 1.5% of applicants from every middle school.

For the first time in at least 10 years, every FCPS middle school has students who were offered admission to TJHSST. The students accepted for the Class of 2025 are high performers and are well prepared for the school’s academic rigor. At 3.9, the average GPA for applicants is higher this year than it has been in the past five years. The average GPA for students offered admission remains extremely high at more than 3.95.

Last fall’s changes to the TJHSST admissions process also resulted in a significant increase in access for groups who have faced barriers to entry, including special education students, students eligible for free and/or reduced-price meals, and English Learners. (See chart below.)

Superintendent Scott S. Brabrand said, “Last year, Fairfax County Public Schools moved to ensure increased access and opportunity to TJ for students with an aptitude and passion for STEM. The data around TJ’s prospective freshmen class speaks volumes to the fact that when we truly center our work on equity, all of our students have an opportunity to shine.”

The new admissions process continues to be merit based and is race blind. Students are allocated a number by which to be identified during the process. Admissions evaluators do not know the race, ethnicity, or gender of any applicant.


Established in 1985, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a Governor’s School, emphasizing the sciences, mathematics, and technology. The school’s mission is to provide students with a challenging learning environment focused on math, science, and technology; to inspire joy at the prospect of discovery; and to foster a culture of innovation based on ethical behavior and the shared interests of humanity.

Does it mean that the all offered admission students have at least 3.95GPA?

[Anonymous]

I’m assuming they upped the number of kids attending from 480 to 550 because they expect a bloodbath and a huge drop down rate? They had better keep the academic standards the same. Not fair to the kids who can do the work. Let ELL kids how to do a freshman English class with the demands on a college seminar and Bio taught from the AP Bio Book above AP Bio level freshman year and flunk, flunk, flunk.

Not requiring English fluency at a minimum is ridiculous. TJ isn’t the place for remedial classes.

—TJ Grad.

[Anonymous]

Here's the news release with all the stats at the bottom of the page:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admissions-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the news release with all the stats at the bottom of the page:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admissions-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

So still high performing students? Great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is waitlisted. According to the website, a waitpool of students will be created to offer additional students an opportunity to attend TJHSST when admitted applicants decline the offer of admission. Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first.

When is the wait going to be over

feel tired

Given the a,eup of the class, next year is going to be a clusterf*ck for TJ freshman. I would not send a kid, period. TJ is hard enough when they don’t have 40ish ELL kids and 100 FARMS kids— all of whom missed most of 8th grade. The teachers there are going to have kids who literally don’t understand the classes and not be inclined to wait for the short bus to keep up.

If you have a good base HS, send your kid there. It’s stable at least. And they will have a ton of kids drop back. You can re-evaluate sophomore year. But given the numbers, Langley, McLean, Oakton, Chantilly, Madison, Woodson, etc are likely to be much more rigorous.

It says something that the only admit on here was HHS— which never send s anyone. (Ahhmmm “underrepresented school). I’m just issued that after the end of freshman year and most of sophomore year online, my junio heads back to 4 APs, a post AP— and this mess. Not fair to ruin things for kids already there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the news release with all the stats at the bottom of the page:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admissions-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

So still high performing students? Great.

How hard is an A in an ELL or non-honors MS class? In 7th, the all got bumped due to COVID, and this was the year of we don’t given any zeros and unlimited makeups. Those GOAs aren’t reflective of anything and there is not standardized testing to balance it out.

Plus, I know kids in ELL. They all literally get straight all ELL classes.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone get a rejection at all ? Or everyone who didn’t get an offer is in the waitpool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the news release with all the stats at the bottom of the page:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admissions-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

So still high performing students? Great.

How hard is an A in an ELL or non-honors MS class? In 7th, the all got bumped due to COVID, and this was the year of we don’t given any zeros and unlimited makeups. Those GOAs aren’t reflective of anything and there is not standardized testing to balance it out.

Plus, I know kids in ELL. They all literally get straight all ELL classes.

You are wrong. It’s the ELL students that failed in the largest numbers this year. It’s tragic.

If an ELL student was able to pull off an A under distance learning, I’d say that says more about her than a prepped kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is waitlisted. According to the website, a waitpool of students will be created to offer additional students an opportunity to attend TJHSST when admitted applicants decline the offer of admission. Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first.

When is the wait going to be over

How do you evaluate kids if there is no admission test,and no recommendation letters from teachers?