FCPS TJ Class of 2024 Press Release - Buried; AA Admits "TS" to Mention

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Anonymous wrote:Just an observer but I think the county should be extremely proud to have the number #1 rated High School in the country. can't do much better than that. Most of the rest of the high schools aren't much worse in NOVA anyway, and most all of the best students, be it from TJ or the other HS's, wind up at U.Va anyway.

Relatively few TJ kids end up at UVA. Over half that apply are rejected, and the top students use UVA as a safety.

Really, over half are rejected? I wonder why, they don't want too many from the same school I guess.

That is probably the reason. The reality is that it that you have to have better stats from TJ than from the other FCPS schools to get into UVA.

This just shows the iodiocy of those (probably concerned whites) complaining that URMs aren't admitted to TJ. Most smart URMs can get into UVA from their base schools and still be around their friends. Why would they waste their time applying to TJ? Let the strivers who want to be able to say their kids went to TJ have TJ. Smart kids from other races will choose to flourish at their base schools instead of buying into the TJ hype. After high school no one cares that you went to TJ.

You go to TJ because this level of education is not available elsewhere, not to earn the chips to cash at the admissions casino. It's not about bragging rights. It's about what TJ can put into your brains.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We need to get elitism out of schools. We wouldn't want any elite performance out of our kids coming from FCPS. No we want the same stupid performance out of all our students upon graduation.

People who buy into this sort of bland political horseshit will get their logical rewards. This is all claptrap meaning absolutely nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Abrar Omeish, Karen Keys Gamarra, Rachna Sizemore Heizer - it is up to YOU to decide if FCPS wants to perpetuate the racism and elitism within FCPS exemplified by TJHSST.

It is no longer enough to not be a racist. You must be be affirmatively anti-racist.

You will be judged on whether you acted to return TJ to the community for which it was built, or just sat back and tolerated discrimination and injustice.

We replaced Ilryong Moon after years of his placing TJ's needs first. You will be gone in a term if you don't do better. Scott Brabrand has no spine, but other superintendents understand that it is time for change.

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/superintendent-steven-walts-action-plan-to-combat-racism/article_1a3fbdd0-a775-11ea-a3f7-b3adbea6a186.html

All forms of racism should be abolished including racism against Asian Americans.

When did Asian Americans in Fairfax County have to go to separate schools like Luther Jackson? Or before that ride a bus to DC or Manassas?

The experience has been very different and to ignore this is vile. Watch your privilege.

What? You aren't making any sense.

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It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

A reasonable chance of getting in if you're Asian and a student body that's over 70% Asian.

You are incorrect, TJ admissions discriminates against Asians in the admissions process. Asian applicants have to show higher test scores, better grades, better recommendation letters, more STEM activities and they are penalized in the subjective areas such as essays. You got it reversed.

+1000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

A reasonable chance of getting in if you're Asian and a student body that's over 70% Asian.

You are incorrect, TJ admissions discriminates against Asians in the admissions process. Asian applicants have to show higher test scores, better grades, better recommendation letters, more STEM activities and they are penalized in the subjective areas such as essays. You got it reversed.

+1000

Asian student percentage at TJ would be higher without the systematic discrimination against Asian applicants in the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. We need to get elitism out of schools. We wouldn't want any elite performance out of our kids coming from FCPS. No we want the same stupid performance out of all our students upon graduation.

People who buy into this sort of bland political horseshit will get their logical rewards. This is all claptrap meaning absolutely nothing.

Don't you have a MAGA rally to attend today?

[Anonymous]

You Asian supremacists are a real pain in the ass. TJ likely does not discriminate against Asians. They are admitted in higher percentages relative to applicants than other groups. This may be due to being better qualified, but you don't have the relevant data to do the appropriate multivariate analysis to test this hypothesis. Keep this argument for cesspits like Harvard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just an observer but I think the county should be extremely proud to have the number #1 rated High School in the country. can't do much better than that. Most of the rest of the high schools aren't much worse in NOVA anyway, and most all of the best students, be it from TJ or the other HS's, wind up at U.Va anyway.

Relatively few TJ kids end up at UVA. Over half that apply are rejected, and the top students use UVA as a safety.

Only 37 of those reporting in last year's graduation publication were going to UVA (out of a class size of 455). Nearly 80% reported destinations. Next were W&M with 28, Pitt and VT with 16, Michigan 14, Cornell 13, CMU 12, and Illinois 11.

Ivy+ was 43: Harvard 5, MIT 7, Yale 5, Princeton 4, Stanford 3, Penn 3, Columbia 2, Cornell 13, Dartmouth 1

Over time, it appears fewer have been going to UVA and state schools and more are going out of state, perhaps due to strong scholarship/aid offers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You Asian supremacists are a real pain in the ass. TJ likely does not discriminate against Asians. They are admitted in higher percentages relative to applicants than other groups. This may be due to being better qualified, but you don't have the relevant data to do the appropriate multivariate analysis to test this hypothesis. Keep this argument for cesspits like Harvard.

Truth hurts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. We need to get elitism out of schools. We wouldn't want any elite performance out of our kids coming from FCPS. No we want the same stupid performance out of all our students upon graduation.

People who buy into this sort of bland political horseshit will get their logical rewards. This is all claptrap meaning absolutely nothing.

Don't you have a MAGA rally to attend today?

Wouldn't want freedom of thought here on DCUM would we?

All these statements coming out these days are pure virtue signaling. Do you really believe CHANGE is happening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

A reasonable chance of getting in if you're Asian and a student body that's over 70% Asian.

You are incorrect, TJ admissions discriminates against Asians in the admissions process. Asian applicants have to show higher test scores, better grades, better recommendation letters, more STEM activities and they are penalized in the subjective areas such as essays. You got it reversed.

+1000

Asian student percentage at TJ would be higher without the systematic discrimination against Asian applicants in the admissions process.

Well supported with data points. . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You Asian supremacists are a real pain in the ass. TJ likely does not discriminate against Asians. They are admitted in higher percentages relative to applicants than other groups. This may be due to being better qualified, but you don't have the relevant data to do the appropriate multivariate analysis to test this hypothesis. Keep this argument for cesspits like Harvard.

Ouch! You really took that loss hard, didn't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

A reasonable chance of getting in if you're Asian and a student body that's over 70% Asian.

You are incorrect, TJ admissions discriminates against Asians in the admissions process. Asian applicants have to show higher test scores, better grades, better recommendation letters, more STEM activities and they are penalized in the subjective areas such as essays. You got it reversed.

+1000

Asian student percentage at TJ would be higher without the systematic discrimination against Asian applicants in the admissions process.

Well supported with data points. . .

We would have the relevant data but FCPS refuses to release the applicant information (GPA, test scores, essays, LOR etc.) with the personal information redacted (except for the race, gender) for the past 10 years because they know the relevant data will show that Asian applicants to TJ are discriminated against in the admission process.

[Anonymous]

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We would have the relevant data but FCPS refuses to release the applicant information (GPA, test scores, essays, LOR etc.) with the personal information redacted (except for the race, gender) for the past 10 years because they know the relevant data will show that Asian applicants to TJ are discriminated against in the admission process.

You sound as bad as the conspiracy theorists on the other side of the argument.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

We would have the relevant data but FCPS refuses to release the applicant information (GPA, test scores, essays, LOR etc.) with the personal information redacted (except for the race, gender) for the past 10 years because they know the relevant data will show that Asian applicants to TJ are discriminated against in the admission process.

You sound as bad as the conspiracy theorists on the other side of the argument.

FCPS did release this information while ago but stopped doing so.