Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Tell me you don't understand America without telling me you don't understand America.

Please school me dear sir. I am just a lowly immigrant.

Here's all the schooling you need - and don't call me "sir" as you have no information as to my gender.

In America, it is a privilege to be able to prioritize your child's education at the expense of everything else.

Many immigrants have this very admirable mindset and take a great deal of pride in it - but it is simply not an option for many, many people who have physical safety, food and shelter security to worry about while still making enough money to technically be above the poverty line.

Many immigrants would love to take all of their money and invest it into their bright children who may be able to singlehandedly lift their family out of the cycle that they are kept in. Some of them are doing it as we speak - they just have a lot less money than you to do it with even though they're still not FARMS-eligible.

Those somewhat expensive clothes and accessories that you love to look down on? Those are an attempt to signal that they have more money than they do so that they can be treated with some level of respect in social situations, networking opportunities, and job interviews - because if they don't have them, they're just another poor person who deserves their destitution.

I appreciate your request (however sarcastic) for context. I hope it's useful on some level - if not for you, then for someone else on this thread who's genuinely curious about expanding their horizons.

Honest question: are you speaking from personal experience? Or are you speaking for a group that you don't belong to? I am just trying to place my education in context.

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Oh, stop it. Don't you know everything must be reduced to a discussion of how everything in America is based on systemic racism that must be addressed by sacrificing all objective assessments of achievement?

Had you stopped there, you'd have been okay.

You do know more than one person comments here, right? That wasn't me. Yes, there is absolutely systemic racism in this country which needs to be addressed. There are ways of doing it without destroying the very institutions that we have built. Else it just becomes a pointless exercise. For example if TJ becomes a place no one wants to get into, then what's the point?

Applications went up by 20% for the Class of 2025 and increased across all demographics. Try again.

Of course applications will go up in year one. Let's try again in 5 years if the admissions process remains what it is - essentially a essay driven lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Tell me you don't understand America without telling me you don't understand America.

Please school me dear sir. I am just a lowly immigrant.

Here's all the schooling you need - and don't call me "sir" as you have no information as to my gender.

In America, it is a privilege to be able to prioritize your child's education at the expense of everything else.

Many immigrants have this very admirable mindset and take a great deal of pride in it - but it is simply not an option for many, many people who have physical safety, food and shelter security to worry about while still making enough money to technically be above the poverty line.

Many immigrants would love to take all of their money and invest it into their bright children who may be able to singlehandedly lift their family out of the cycle that they are kept in. Some of them are doing it as we speak - they just have a lot less money than you to do it with even though they're still not FARMS-eligible.

Those somewhat expensive clothes and accessories that you love to look down on? Those are an attempt to signal that they have more money than they do so that they can be treated with some level of respect in social situations, networking opportunities, and job interviews - because if they don't have them, they're just another poor person who deserves their destitution.

I appreciate your request (however sarcastic) for context. I hope it's useful on some level - if not for you, then for someone else on this thread who's genuinely curious about expanding their horizons.

Honest question: are you speaking from personal experience? Or are you speaking for a group that you don't belong to? I am just trying to place my education in context.

My identity is irrelevant. I am speaking from a place of education on the matter.

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Oh, stop it. Don't you know everything must be reduced to a discussion of how everything in America is based on systemic racism that must be addressed by sacrificing all objective assessments of achievement?

Had you stopped there, you'd have been okay.

You do know more than one person comments here, right? That wasn't me. Yes, there is absolutely systemic racism in this country which needs to be addressed. There are ways of doing it without destroying the very institutions that we have built. Else it just becomes a pointless exercise. For example if TJ becomes a place no one wants to get into, then what's the point?

Applications went up by 20% for the Class of 2025 and increased across all demographics. Try again.

Of course applications will go up in year one. Let's try again in 5 years if the admissions process remains what it is - essentially a essay driven lottery.

I would anticipate that there will be some minor tweaks here and there - but to call the new admissions process a lottery devalues the accomplishments of the students who were admitted in the Class of 2025. Those children don't deserve that any more than the students who were selected under the old admissions process without artificial enhancement (of which there were plenty) deserve to be called "cheaters".

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Oh, stop it. Don't you know everything must be reduced to a discussion of how everything in America is based on systemic racism that must be addressed by sacrificing all objective assessments of achievement?

Had you stopped there, you'd have been okay.

You do know more than one person comments here, right? That wasn't me. Yes, there is absolutely systemic racism in this country which needs to be addressed. There are ways of doing it without destroying the very institutions that we have built. Else it just becomes a pointless exercise. For example if TJ becomes a place no one wants to get into, then what's the point?

You claim "there is absolutely systemic racism in this country". Would it be too much trouble for you to explain of justify this? And, please, don't just provide unqualified statistics as evidence. I'll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Oh, stop it. Don't you know everything must be reduced to a discussion of how everything in America is based on systemic racism that must be addressed by sacrificing all objective assessments of achievement?

Had you stopped there, you'd have been okay.

You do know more than one person comments here, right? That wasn't me. Yes, there is absolutely systemic racism in this country which needs to be addressed. There are ways of doing it without destroying the very institutions that we have built. Else it just becomes a pointless exercise. For example if TJ becomes a place no one wants to get into, then what's the point?

Applications went up by 20% for the Class of 2025 and increased across all demographics. Try again.

Of course applications will go up in year one. Let's try again in 5 years if the admissions process remains what it is - essentially a essay driven lottery.

I would anticipate that there will be some minor tweaks here and there - but to call the new admissions process a lottery devalues the accomplishments of the students who were admitted in the Class of 2025. Those children don't deserve that any more than the students who were selected under the old admissions process without artificial enhancement (of which there were plenty) deserve to be called "cheaters".

The process does devalue the TJ admission, not any of their other accomplishments.

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Anonymous wrote:When you are accustomed to privilege, equity feels like oppression.

The more I read these posts the more this rings true!

+1

It is a nice line. Has a good ring to it. Privilege is being able to change the rules of the game so that you don't need to put in the hard yards or sacrifice needed for success. Privilege is using political power to browbeat a minority group and try to pull them down.

I wrote that line in here but I can't take credit for it. Been around for a long time.

I honestly use it because I genuinely believe that a lot of these families cannot imagine a situation where they have much tougher things to worry about than TJ admissions. There are tons of hardworking families in Northern Virginia where both parents work multiple jobs in order to keep the family afloat - and because no one from their kid's elementary school has attended TJ in recent years they have no connection to the admissions process or the strategies to deal with it.

They are concerned with their family's food and shelter security, and perhaps even their child's physical safety, and they trust the public school that they've sent their child to with giving them all of the tools that they need to succeed. They sign their children up for activities not based on what will optimize their chances in the TJ Admissions process, but rather based on what is free and creates supervision for the largest amount of time possible.

Their child takes the bus to school every day, not because it's more convenient for the parents but because they don't have a car, or money for insurance, or for the gas that it takes to get them from A to B. There is no bus that takes them to or from any prep courses that may be available - even if they are free to attend!

But they still believe education to be extremely important to their child's - and their family's - future. Their bright child who gets As in school - even in the face of an environment where being smart is a social pariah, where raising your hand in class is a recipe for ridicule - is their hope for a better tomorrow for their younger siblings.

Not saying I don't respect the struggles of the hypothetical kid in the story, but if my kid lost out to that "experience factors" essay, it wouldn't sit well with me.

Hard to compete on some essay when many of the kids are getting $5k-$10k in coaching on how to manipulate the judges when some low-income kid has none of that.

Interesting how folks just assert claims as fact. Not to mention the assumptions that go into their "logic".

https://curielearning.com/middle-program-7-8

If you qualify for free-reduced meal, you can be considered for the free or reduced tuition in Curie Learning.

There is a fair amount of space between "qualifies for free or reduced price meals" and "can afford several mortgage payments for a prep course".

Huh? Now even free is not good enough?

*smacking my forehead* No - what I'm saying is that there are many, many people who are between the two categories. These programs are prohibitively expensive unless you have a significant amount of disposable income.

You are a tough person to please I can tell you some secrets on how to prioritize and save money. Involves maybe an alien concept called sacrifice. But I know you will have some other concerns.

Oh, stop it. Don't you know everything must be reduced to a discussion of how everything in America is based on systemic racism that must be addressed by sacrificing all objective assessments of achievement?

Had you stopped there, you'd have been okay.

You do know more than one person comments here, right? That wasn't me. Yes, there is absolutely systemic racism in this country which needs to be addressed. There are ways of doing it without destroying the very institutions that we have built. Else it just becomes a pointless exercise. For example if TJ becomes a place no one wants to get into, then what's the point?

Applications went up by 20% for the Class of 2025 and increased across all demographics. Try again.

Of course applications will go up in year one. Let's try again in 5 years if the admissions process remains what it is - essentially a essay driven lottery.

I would anticipate that there will be some minor tweaks here and there - but to call the new admissions process a lottery devalues the accomplishments of the students who were admitted in the Class of 2025. Those children don't deserve that any more than the students who were selected under the old admissions process without artificial enhancement (of which there were plenty) deserve to be called "cheaters".

The process does devalue the TJ admission, not any of their other accomplishments.

Not really. Unless you think that Stanford and all the Ivy League schools have admissions that are devalued too. Same thing as TJ.

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How is admission devalued? Students need a higher GPA than they did before?

[Anonymous]

So this topic is going to continue into the application process for the class of 2026?

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Anonymous wrote:So this topic is going to continue into the application process for the class of 2026?

Until the whiners quit whining, yes. Allowing them an echo chamber to peddle their falsehoods and grievances serves no one.

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Anonymous wrote:So this topic is going to continue into the application process for the class of 2026?

Until the whiners quit whining, yes. Allowing them an echo chamber to peddle their falsehoods and grievances serves no one.

Why not? It is good entertainment. Most of the people on this forum don't have any kids who are eligible for TJ. We are just here to comment and prove our ideological superiority.

Hardworking kids will do fine - at TJ or otherwise. You can't keep ambition and drive down in America. TJ will gradually become an above average, much more relaxed and happier STEM school. It is all good.

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Anonymous wrote:So this topic is going to continue into the application process for the class of 2026?

Until the whiners quit whining, yes. Allowing them an echo chamber to peddle their falsehoods and grievances serves no one.

Why not? It is good entertainment. Most of the people on this forum don't have any kids who are eligible for TJ. We are just here to comment and prove our ideological superiority.

Hardworking kids will do fine - at TJ or otherwise. You can't keep ambition and drive down in America. TJ will gradually become an above average, much more relaxed and happier STEM school. It is all good.

lol You aren't supposed to say that out loud. Prove our ideological superiority. Love it.

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I have heard that Curie had exact test questions for Academy of Loudoun's STEM Critical Thinking test this year. Just as the accusation was made about TJ test in previous years.
Only the student who said this also said he didn't know the answers, he wasn't paying close attention because he didn't know the teacher was talking about the Academies of Loudoun test. So did he just see close questions based on previous years, or was it the exact test? Does Curie have an inside angle, perhaps the teacher helps write the test, or Loudoun is reusing the same test every year?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this topic is going to continue into the application process for the class of 2026?

Until the whiners quit whining, yes. Allowing them an echo chamber to peddle their falsehoods and grievances serves no one.

Why not? It is good entertainment. Most of the people on this forum don't have any kids who are eligible for TJ. We are just here to comment and prove our ideological superiority.

Hardworking kids will do fine - at TJ or otherwise. You can't keep ambition and drive down in America. TJ will gradually become an above average, much more relaxed and happier STEM school. It is all good.

lol You aren't supposed to say that out loud. Prove our ideological superiority. Love it.

Yeah. It's horrible equity theater which has given serious gifted teachers real concerns. But hey, since it's letting some people believe that they've proven their ideological supremacy, why not?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

VA flipped red due to the democrats racism against Asian people.

They noticed and they voted.