2025 - TJ Admission Results Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard about any case with any kids taking PreCalculus in the 8th grade? Did they get in, waitlisted, or rejected? What is the intake for such a rare case?

I don't know about that, but TJ is missing out on some of the most elite mathematicians in the area. The USA(J)MO awards came out. TJ had 9 awardees. The rest of Fairfax county had 5, including one kid who is a top winner and will be invited to MOP. Either the admissions process is missing out on some of the top kids in the entire country, or for whatever reason, some elite kids are no longer interested in TJ.

I don't understand the term of 'missing out'. What make it requires that all of the winner has to be from TJ, those 5 kids from other school could be not interested in TJ at the first place. They could be accepted but decline the offer. And what is wrong if an elite kids just not interested in TJ? You make it like every academic achievement outside TJ is just wrong and consider TJ failure, how?

There's nothing wrong with elite kids not being interested in TJ. There is something wrong with elite kids who desperately wanted to attend TJ being rejected due to the somewhat random nature of the process. There is also something wrong with them having to deal with froshmore admissions when they should have been no brainer admits in the first place.

In the past, nearly all USA(J)MO awardees in the TJ catchment attended TJ. If 1/3 of the current "elite crop" of kids isn't interested in TJ, more power to them. We don't know if that is what is happening here.

And what about the kids who desperately wanted to attend TJ but don't even bother to apply because TJ was barely accessible to them, or could not afford the prep. Just a reminder, 1/3 of TJ old acceptance was came from single test prep company, not to mention the other test prep.

Why, PP? Seriously:

WHY are you in this admissions thread for the class of 2029? You are only here spreading your DEI-bs.

Go away progressive troll!

Why can’t I be here? I am a TJ parent.
And why are you here?

I highly doubt you are a TJ parent.

Past or present school board member? Nardos King or her staff? Maybe.

In any event: take your political bloviating elsewhere. This thread is for parents of the class of 2029 (not you, PP).

So you have kids at TJ every year since 2021? You are definitely not a TJ parent.
I am only trolling you, when you start your lies, in every single thread, that TJ is a “disaster” now (because they don’t go to your prep test centre anymore).
And who is Nardos King? 😆

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Clearly, the RWNJ troll doesn’t have kids in this class. Given the low IQ comments, let’s hope he hasn’t reproduced at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there is an entire class of Algebra II students at Carson?

There are two classes of Algebra two at Cooper

So basically attending a high SES school that offers more opportunities for enrichment gives students a big edge on TJ offers?

Apparently, they prefer wealth and access to opportunity over demonstrated ability through standardized tests because they think THAT'S where wealth makes a difference.

Wealth played a bigger factor getting into the pool in the first place.

If money plays a role in education, why can't FCPS(one of the richest counties in US ) provide more advanced STEM courses at a few more base high school? Why FCPS has to restrict the resources into one TJ, and play the political DEI game? Is it really that expensive to add a couple of more advanced Math courses, the online one will do.
Yet, all the FCPS parents and kids are being manipulated like 13 districts in the Hunger Games, speculating their ration of education resources and fight for a spot in TJ.

DEI game: TJ is predomently Asian. The admission changes barely moved the numbers on Black and Hispanic kids. The largest change was an increase in less well-off Asian kids.

Yep, because Asian earned their spots, like other races earned their spots in sports. The TJ admission policy changes has to intentionally lower the math level. The kids on lower math level won't be able to benefit from the advanced math/stem courses TJ provides, math level dictates how other STEM courses progress in sequence. It's impossible to skip math level on high school level no matter how hard you are willing to work. So the kids on lower level math in TJ will be the bottom of the class, no plot twist there. And the college OA compares the high school profile(all the courses it provides) and kids' courses taken, the conclusion would be the kids don't know how to take advantages of the resources the school provides, hence the kids won't be able to take advantage of the resources our colleges provide. This is why all the good colleges suggest the kids taking the most rigorous courses their high school provides. If the high school does not offer any AP courses, it's fine, OA takes that into consideration. But the high school like TJ offers all the fancy advanced STEM courese and the kids aren't able to take, OA thinks it's kids' capability.

And the rest is not.

Make TJ Asian Again!!

Again: YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN THIS THREAD, PP.

Take your stupid, DEI, democrat ranting over to the Politics forum. This thread is for Admissions Results. Now GO AWAY.

This person’s post was 100% anti DEI. DEI initiatives caused the percent of Asian students admitted to drop compared to before the new DEI policy of writing essays instead of taking an actual math test to see who is qualified.

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This is great information for all TJ accepted students and families to know:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1271395.page

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How on earth does Longfellow have the same number of admitted students to the Class of 2029 as Carson and almost twice as many as Cooper? Carson has a lot more AAP feeders and Cooper is wealthier.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there is an entire class of Algebra II students at Carson?

There are two classes of Algebra two at Cooper

So basically attending a high SES school that offers more opportunities for enrichment gives students a big edge on TJ offers?

Apparently, they prefer wealth and access to opportunity over demonstrated ability through standardized tests because they think THAT'S where wealth makes a difference.

Wealth played a bigger factor getting into the pool in the first place.

If money plays a role in education, why can't FCPS(one of the richest counties in US ) provide more advanced STEM courses at a few more base high school? Why FCPS has to restrict the resources into one TJ, and play the political DEI game? Is it really that expensive to add a couple of more advanced Math courses, the online one will do.
Yet, all the FCPS parents and kids are being manipulated like 13 districts in the Hunger Games, speculating their ration of education resources and fight for a spot in TJ.

Yes, adding teachers/classrooms requires money. FCPS is underfunded and already serves a huge, extremely diverse population (Title 1, SPED, ESOL, AAP, etc).

I agree we should add more STEM options across FCPS.

You get what you pay for.

Keep it in mind the FCPS is one of the richest counties in US. During the Covid, there are plenty of other poorer states/school zones opened their classroom online 2-3 weeks into quarantine. While FCPS refused to use cheaper Zoom, insisted keep pumping hundreds of millions into Blackboard, and interrupted students' learning for 2 whole months.
TJ's situation has nothing to do with FCPS' budget, it's being used as a political performance. And FCPS parents and kids are the victims of that.
TJ's advance STEM courses don't have enough qualified kids to sign up since the new admission policy being put in, and the resources is being wasted, but FCPS refuse to allocate more resources to open the same STEM courses to an online options that could benefit base high school kids that run out of advanced math to take at senior year?!

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Anonymous wrote:How on earth does Longfellow have the same number of admitted students to the Class of 2029 as Carson and almost twice as many as Cooper? Carson has a lot more AAP feeders and Cooper is wealthier.

Where are you getting those numebrs from? A really, really small percentage of people post on this site.

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https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

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All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48
Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Longfellow Middle School - 48
Rocky Run Middle School - 22

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

Thank you!

The schools at feed Carson that stand out to me for applying to TJ are Navy and Oak Hill. I have no idea what the AAP kids from Coates, McNair, and Hunter's Woods "look like" or what they do in terms of applying. I believe that Fox Mill, Floris, and Crossfield have some kids apply but probably not as many as Navy and Oak Hill.

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Seems like an average year for Carson which sent 47, 38, and then 48 kids in the last 3 years

... and a really good year for Longfellow sending 30, 40 and now 48 kids...

Cooper numbers are 16, 24 and 25 for the last 3 years.

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Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48
Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Longfellow Middle School - 48
Rocky Run Middle School - 22

When does FCPS report what math breakdown is? Have seen charts for prior classes saying what % coming in with algebra v geometry v alg2

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like an average year for Carson which sent 47, 38, and then 48 kids in the last 3 years

... and a really good year for Longfellow sending 30, 40 and now 48 kids...

Cooper numbers are 16, 24 and 25 for the last 3 years.

Maybe less at Cooper apply to TJ bc they feed into Langley/great school. Carson feeds into Oakton (maybe they have option for IB elsewhere but assume most if not all STEM kids with accelerated math pick Oakton/AP since it rates high and has college placement success).

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The DEI / democrat crowd in Fairfax County really hate TJ and would gladly see it disappear, the way democrats in NYC and Seattle terminated their gifted and talented programs entirely.

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Anonymous wrote:The DEI / democrat crowd in Fairfax County really hate TJ and would gladly see it disappear, the way democrats in NYC and Seattle terminated their gifted and talented programs entirely.

Richmond would gladly take it on

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Anonymous wrote:All FCPS middle schools are represented in the Class of 2029:

Carson Middle School - 48
Cooper Middle School - 25
Frost Middle School - 19
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14
Kilmer Middle School - 13
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17
Longfellow Middle School - 48
Rocky Run Middle School - 22

When does FCPS report what math breakdown is? Have seen charts for prior classes saying what % coming in with algebra v geometry v alg2

If FCPS were to report this explicitly, that would just open the floodgates to further criticize the current non-merit admissions criteria. The percentage breakdown shared here is based on analyses by data science experts on this forum, using publicly available previous year’s SOL participant counts for each of those courses.