Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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There are so many good programs at all of the high schools in FFX county as well as the ability to take college-level classes if you desire. I truly do not understand the craziness around TJ. I have friends whose kids go there and they mostly like it, but it has issues too, just like all schools do. I guess I could understand if my kid was truly just a self-motivated academic likely to become a research scientist or a professor, but I just don't understand otherwise why it would be worth it to commute further away and lose time being a kid. And for the parents that put their kids in rigorous test prep programs for their entire childhood, I just think it is sad. I would love to know how some of these kids' lives turn out, I worry they will have emotional problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the process favor URM when it’s race blind? That doesn’t make sense.

The per school minimum quota acts as a racial factor, when Asians are clustered in certain schools that do well.
It is worse in Loudoun which set a maximum quota per school as well as a minimum. At least for TJ, the remaining seats after the minimum quota are available to all schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's just all work to have base high school gain grater access to college level courses. Being able to take real laboratory courses at GMU or John's Hopkins would be nice.

Right now with VMPI, they would have less access in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:NOTE TO ALL ASIANS:

CHANGE YOUR RACE TO "MIXED" ON YOUR KID'S FCPS PROFILE. THIS IS STEP 1.

DO IT NOW.

Of course, decisions are race-blind since using that would be illegal. Changing this won't matter.

New poster.

We are not a TJ track family, but I have been watchimg the school board meetings for a while since fcps went virtual.

It is crystal clear to anyone that paid attention, that our fcps was openly and proudly targeting asian kids for discrimination and punishment for studying, achievijg academic succes and working hard for years to present the best application to TJ admissions.

The school board comments and behavior were shocking, embarrassing, and openly racist against asian kids who have worked so hard and brough so much success and national recognition to our school district.

I was ashamed by what I saw come out of the mouths of our school board during this process.

From the outside but as a ffx county taxpayer, I hope the TJ parents win big with their lawsuit.

I also agree based on what I saw watching the school board, that asian parents with TJ aspirations should consider switching their race to mixed.

The amount of deflection and projection on the part of School Board members orchestrating this experiment in admissions reform would fill the ocean. Most of all it reflects poorly on these white women who cloak their insecurity by claiming to want more opportunities for URMs (mostly at the expense of Asian students, of course).

The school board members were not orchestrating this experiment. This is a national group that had plans ready to go. The school board did not come up with these changes on their own. Same thing happened in Loudoun, where a new admissions plan was presented just days before the school board voted on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of what FCPS says about the new admissions process is crafted with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and promoting a narrative that their new, but opaque, process somehow magically finds the best candidates who just happen to advance their real goal to reduce the percentage of Asian kids. It’s not especially convincing, but they hope that by repeating themselves often enough they’ll get others to follow suit.

In Loudoun, the presenter of the new admissions plan put up a slide that said geography is not being used as a proxy for race, explaining that this was illegal.

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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=

Hispanic students increased the most. Good for them! I like to see diversity.

TJ Alum

My kid hispanic, Presidential awards, all honors classes, 3.9, Algebra II honors, didn’t get accepted, maybe because is not the right hispanic, he don’t receive FARMs and we didn’t check in multiracial box, clearly not the right kind of hispanic/latino kid.

want is FARMs?

Free And Reduced Meals = low income

All this time I thought it was an acronym for some combo of minorities.

[Anonymous]

Will there be an open house for admitted kids, so they can make an informed choice about whether to accept? TJ is a lifestyle choice. I found it eye-opening when we went to the open house years ago. Not from FCPS and wasn’t very plugged in, didn’t appreciate what the opportunity was and wasn’t right off the bat.

[Anonymous]

Anyone hear what the admissions were for Longfellow and Cooper? Any shockers of kids not getting in?

[Anonymous]

The new admission process seems like a huge improvement since it reduces the number of heavily prepped students that seem to come from the same areas and focuses more on actual aptitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new admission process seems like a huge improvement since it reduces the number of heavily prepped students that seem to come from the same areas and focuses more on actual aptitude.

Yeah right! From one of the feeder schools, 98% of kids that got in are heavily prepped. They continued to Prep for essays/Student Information Sheet despite the tests going away. This is true of all the big feeder schools.

How do you measure actual aptitude in SIS/Essay administered virtually? Anyone could have helped the student. This is definitely not a holistic review - just numbers matching and pulling the name out of a stack to match /tick the right criteria. There is nothing holistic about this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are so many good programs at all of the high schools in FFX county as well as the ability to take college-level classes if you desire. I truly do not understand the craziness around TJ. I have friends whose kids go there and they mostly like it, but it has issues too, just like all schools do. I guess I could understand if my kid was truly just a self-motivated academic likely to become a research scientist or a professor, but I just don't understand otherwise why it would be worth it to commute further away and lose time being a kid. And for the parents that put their kids in rigorous test prep programs for their entire childhood, I just think it is sad. I would love to know how some of these kids' lives turn out, I worry they will have emotional problems.

You can now take classes at George Mason with a counselor's recommendation. GMU is rising in the rankings, and it's a lot easier to get to GMU for a lot of students, especially given public transit options. I definitely know more students opting for this route over TJ

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Anonymous wrote:The new admission process seems like a huge improvement since it reduces the number of heavily prepped students that seem to come from the same areas and focuses more on actual aptitude.

Aka favors kids who don’t have a work ethic and are just average in math, taking Algebra I in 8th. No work ethic and no real aptitude == a high drop back rate. And what will mommy do when she discovers that getting into college requires prepping (ie, work)? This is the year of the Invasion of the Karen’s insisting their kid should get a free pass on doing TJ work and have an A without working night and day, because aptitude.

And, of course, come college admission, they are shocked that their kid ends up at a 3%rd tower kid whine that the “prepped kids” (ie, the ones who worked hard) are getting better college results.

It’s weird, there a MAGA like group out there dug into the idea that with your kid is smart, or your kid worked hard. And it blows their mind to see smart kids who work hard. When did hard work become something you look down on?

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You can now take classes at George Mason with a counselor's recommendation. GMU is rising in the rankings, and it's a lot easier to get to GMU for a lot of students, especially given public transit options. I definitely know more students opting for this route over TJ

That's good to know! I was wondering what otherwise would happen with the kids who take Algebra II in 8th, and then run out of high school math classes for senior year (but still get rejected from TJ, which would actually have the math classes that they need). Does FCPS pay for the GMU classes, or are the kids on the hook for the tuition?

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Anonymous wrote:The new admission process seems like a huge improvement since it reduces the number of heavily prepped students that seem to come from the same areas and focuses more on actual aptitude.

Aka favors kids who don’t have a work ethic and are just average in math, taking Algebra I in 8th. No work ethic and no real aptitude == a high drop back rate. And what will mommy do when she discovers that getting into college requires prepping (ie, work)? This is the year of the Invasion of the Karen’s insisting their kid should get a free pass on doing TJ work and have an A without working night and day, because aptitude.

And, of course, come college admission, they are shocked that their kid ends up at a 3%rd tower kid whine that the “prepped kids” (ie, the ones who worked hard) are getting better college results.

It’s weird, there a MAGA like group out there dug into the idea that with your kid is smart, or your kid worked hard. And it blows their mind to see smart kids who work hard. When did hard work become something you look down on?

This. Those pro FCPS people are just like the MAGAs who complain Mexicans taking their jobs meanwhile they have not upgraded their skills and still expect a good paying jobs with high school education. Tests are one of the most fair measure out there. All you need are some work ethic and books. There is no excuse in the most wealthy country on the planet that you can't compete at learning. Public education and libraries are free. If they put the same efforts they "prep" for travel sports, they will see the results.

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Anonymous wrote:The new admission process seems like a huge improvement since it reduces the number of heavily prepped students that seem to come from the same areas and focuses more on actual aptitude.

Aka favors kids who don’t have a work ethic and are just average in math, taking Algebra I in 8th. No work ethic and no real aptitude == a high drop back rate. And what will mommy do when she discovers that getting into college requires prepping (ie, work)? This is the year of the Invasion of the Karen’s insisting their kid should get a free pass on doing TJ work and have an A without working night and day, because aptitude.

And, of course, come college admission, they are shocked that their kid ends up at a 3%rd tower kid whine that the “prepped kids” (ie, the ones who worked hard) are getting better college results.

It’s weird, there a MAGA like group out there dug into the idea that with your kid is smart, or your kid worked hard. And it blows their mind to see smart kids who work hard. When did hard work become something you look down on?

First PP must be getting paid for each time they repeat "focuses more on actual aptitude" or "favors talent over prep." That poster is unwilling to explain exactly how picking kids based on GPA (when over 1.5% of the kids have straight As at many schools) where math level and rigor of coursework aren't taken into account and a single essay that was written at home and possibly with outside assistance could possibly detect kids with "actual aptitude." Really, it's just going to randomly select among a pool of above average, good students.