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Anonymous wrote:Basis is a part of the problem too. In order to survive as a private school in McLean, they allowed all sorts of acceleration to Asian families who wanted an easy in to TJ after 8th grade. These students study math in the evenings after school and all weekend. I think it has lessened a little due to these AIME qualifiers not getting in to TJ with the admissions changes.


Only about 15 8th graders in all of VA qualified for AIME, and only 1 or 2 of those went to Basis. Basis is churning out highly accelerated kids, but it is not churning out AIME qualifiers.
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Anonymous wrote:“And they took away teacher recommendations. If they cared about taking high achieving students they would not have done that…“

Bet that it was the teachers who did not want to write recommendations each year..TJ just respected their opinions..

they already have enough BS to deal with, including being outed to Youngkin for teaching so called CRT

Youngkin proposed something about transgender, pronouns etc last week? But, I would have rather preferred an announcement that they were planning to fund additional STEM academies in Virginia.. oh well.




Interesting because I’ve been reading in other threads that the best STEM schools other than TJ are the existing top neighborhood schools with lots of challenging math/science courses and that courses with STEM just stuck in their names often are poorly taught or nothing special. So just creating more “STEM academies” sounds more like PR than anything else.


Being able to take calculus in 9th or 10th grade and continuing this progression without having to go to a community college or take classes online, is not PR.


You don’t have to be a “STEM academy” to do this. You just need to offer challenging classes. And why push calculus on 9th graders unless they are truly ready?


The number who are truly ready is generally so low that schools can't offer their own higher level classes. Having a larger group at TJ allows them to offer these classes.
The number of kids who are ready for this is higher than you think, particularly for calculus in 10th grade.


After 126 pages this is the #1 point.

1. TJ should only be for kids who are truly advanced in math not all this woke bs with folks taking Algebra 1 in 8th and somehow getting in.
2. Most of the top tier AAP feeder high schools have a big enough cohort to have entire classes advanced at this level so TJ isn't needed.
3. TJ should just be shut down at this point it's redundant.


TLDR TJ should only be for rich kids and not serve the greater community


DP. The tl;dr should be that TJ is meant to match kids with the appropriate level of service and meet the needs of kids who cannot have their needs met at their base school. Obviously, there will be kids at Langley who can have their needs met at their base school who are objectively stronger students than some kids at Annandale High school who can't have their needs met there. It's not at all a problem to admit kids who are outliers at their base schools, even if the definition of an outlier varies by school.

But, FCPS does have a small cohort of kids who are taking Calculus in either 8th or 9th grade. Those kids will not have an adequate peer group nor will they have adequate course offerings at their base school, since almost every FCPS base school only offers one year of DE post-calculus math. TJ has a wealth of post calc math classes that they will no longer be able to offer if they lack sufficient cohort of kids who are that advanced. It logistically makes the most sense to place the kids who are exceptionally advanced and who will quite literally run out of classes at the base school at a school like TJ, which has the appropriate classes. It likewise makes little sense to place kids at TJ who are unlikely to need anything. beyond the standard AP Calc and AP Science classes offered at every FCPS high school.

It's not sufficient to be advanced by course (don't even think it's necessary). These days there are many "advanced" kids who have big mathematical gaps (can barely reason geometrically, may not even be fully comfortable with some algebraic manipulations, etc.). What's far more important (and harder to do) is for kids to develop strong problem solving skills, i.e be able to figure out and solve things that they don't initially know how to do right away. One good proxy for this skill is being good at math contests. In fact I don't even think "advanced" is necessary, only problem solving skills are, to be able to succeed at TJ. I'd take kids who do very well on the AMC 10 and above contests any day over kids who were accelerated in base school math classes with nothing else to show, and the reason is that there is no problem solving skills being taught in K12 math classes, even calculus.


They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

Agreed, these days it's not that easy to pass the AMC 10, they've gotten quite difficult in recent years and kids who can do it would definitely thrive in math/science classes at TJ. They should do admit them, but they obviously can't advertise or give out any information as that would just spark an even worse parent arms race of acceleration than what we currently have.


I had to pay for all kinds of outside enrichment and badger the principal at my child's ES to ensure they could take calculus in 8th. I mean if I hadn't done all that god forbid they'd be back in honors geometry like their peers, but it was worth the $20k in prep to guarantee them a spot at TJ.


I know! It's gotten so expensive to get your kid into TJ these days and the board of education is to blame!


My kid took AP Calculus BC at TJ at 13 and that didn't cost anything.
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Anonymous wrote:Basis is a part of the problem too. In order to survive as a private school in McLean, they allowed all sorts of acceleration to Asian families who wanted an easy in to TJ after 8th grade. These students study math in the evenings after school and all weekend. I think it has lessened a little due to these AIME qualifiers not getting in to TJ with the admissions changes.


Only about 15 8th graders in all of VA qualified for AIME, and only 1 or 2 of those went to Basis. Basis is churning out highly accelerated kids, but it is not churning out AIME qualifiers.

And I suspect part of the reason is that kids are Basis are too busy with relentless schoolwork + testing to have much extra time left in their lives to seriously prepare to pass the AMC round. Based on their acceleration (i.e kids taking precalc at Basis in 8th grade) I would suspect the cohort who could have the capability to make it to the AIME should be higher than just 1-2 kids, but it still takes significant effort and these kids just don't have the time/motivation to devote more of their afterschool time to training.
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Anonymous wrote:TJ has a large catchment area. It's reasonable to expect there to be at least 30 kids who are naturally that talented in math and who belong in 9th grade Calc.



Also, FCPS is very strict about accelerating kids. FCPS kids who take Algebra in 5th or earlier are quite rare. Gatehouse doesn't sign off on letting more than a few kids per grade level take this path. Parents of kids who are ahead due to a lot of outside supplementation will not have any luck in pushing their kids ahead. They won't meet the FCPS metrics, and skipping ahead will not be an option. More kids are allowed to take Algebra in 6th, but it's still probably only around 50 kids in the entire county. There are pretty strict requirements, and they can't simply be met by heavy supplementation.

Private schools and LCPS might be worse with allowing kids to overaccelerate. TJ has no real obligation to admit those kids. If LCPS is accelerating kids willy nilly, that's their problem. Likewise, kids who are ahead and will run out of math because they took Summer Geometry shouldn't be guaranteed a spot at TJ. TJ should have an obligation to admit the very few kids that FCPS deemed as needing extreme acceleration, and who additionally have a track record of straight As in Honors Algebra, Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra II, and Honors Precalc.


LCPS has a higher proportion of kids taking algebra in 7th than FCPS, at least at some schools. Because of summer geometry, there is probably 100 kids taking algebra 2/trig in 8th grade.
Might be the same 50 kids taking algebra in 6th in the county, though these numbers are way down now after they started implementing VMPI early, and are now getting back to what happened before. Online has also reduced the learning of the 4th and 5th graders. Many of the algebra 2 8th graders are not getting As, particularly the summer geometry kids, though some of them are good. LCPS generally has these kids tracked for calculus in 10th grade with a 9th grade analysis class. The trig portion of the curriculum is pretty weak.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.
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Anonymous wrote:“And they took away teacher recommendations. If they cared about taking high achieving students they would not have done that…“

Bet that it was the teachers who did not want to write recommendations each year..TJ just respected their opinions..

they already have enough BS to deal with, including being outed to Youngkin for teaching so called CRT

Youngkin proposed something about transgender, pronouns etc last week? But, I would have rather preferred an announcement that they were planning to fund additional STEM academies in Virginia.. oh well.




Interesting because I’ve been reading in other threads that the best STEM schools other than TJ are the existing top neighborhood schools with lots of challenging math/science courses and that courses with STEM just stuck in their names often are poorly taught or nothing special. So just creating more “STEM academies” sounds more like PR than anything else.


Being able to take calculus in 9th or 10th grade and continuing this progression without having to go to a community college or take classes online, is not PR.


You don’t have to be a “STEM academy” to do this. You just need to offer challenging classes. And why push calculus on 9th graders unless they are truly ready?


The number who are truly ready is generally so low that schools can't offer their own higher level classes. Having a larger group at TJ allows them to offer these classes.
The number of kids who are ready for this is higher than you think, particularly for calculus in 10th grade.


After 126 pages this is the #1 point.

1. TJ should only be for kids who are truly advanced in math not all this woke bs with folks taking Algebra 1 in 8th and somehow getting in.
2. Most of the top tier AAP feeder high schools have a big enough cohort to have entire classes advanced at this level so TJ isn't needed.
3. TJ should just be shut down at this point it's redundant.


TLDR TJ should only be for rich kids and not serve the greater community


DP. The tl;dr should be that TJ is meant to match kids with the appropriate level of service and meet the needs of kids who cannot have their needs met at their base school. Obviously, there will be kids at Langley who can have their needs met at their base school who are objectively stronger students than some kids at Annandale High school who can't have their needs met there. It's not at all a problem to admit kids who are outliers at their base schools, even if the definition of an outlier varies by school.

But, FCPS does have a small cohort of kids who are taking Calculus in either 8th or 9th grade. Those kids will not have an adequate peer group nor will they have adequate course offerings at their base school, since almost every FCPS base school only offers one year of DE post-calculus math. TJ has a wealth of post calc math classes that they will no longer be able to offer if they lack sufficient cohort of kids who are that advanced. It logistically makes the most sense to place the kids who are exceptionally advanced and who will quite literally run out of classes at the base school at a school like TJ, which has the appropriate classes. It likewise makes little sense to place kids at TJ who are unlikely to need anything. beyond the standard AP Calc and AP Science classes offered at every FCPS high school.

It's not sufficient to be advanced by course (don't even think it's necessary). These days there are many "advanced" kids who have big mathematical gaps (can barely reason geometrically, may not even be fully comfortable with some algebraic manipulations, etc.). What's far more important (and harder to do) is for kids to develop strong problem solving skills, i.e be able to figure out and solve things that they don't initially know how to do right away. One good proxy for this skill is being good at math contests. In fact I don't even think "advanced" is necessary, only problem solving skills are, to be able to succeed at TJ. I'd take kids who do very well on the AMC 10 and above contests any day over kids who were accelerated in base school math classes with nothing else to show, and the reason is that there is no problem solving skills being taught in K12 math classes, even calculus.


They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

Agreed, these days it's not that easy to pass the AMC 10, they've gotten quite difficult in recent years and kids who can do it would definitely thrive in math/science classes at TJ. They should do admit them, but they obviously can't advertise or give out any information as that would just spark an even worse parent arms race of acceleration than what we currently have.


I had to pay for all kinds of outside enrichment and badger the principal at my child's ES to ensure they could take calculus in 8th. I mean if I hadn't done all that god forbid they'd be back in honors geometry like their peers, but it was worth the $20k in prep to guarantee them a spot at TJ.


I know! It's gotten so expensive to get your kid into TJ these days and the board of education is to blame!


My kid took AP Calculus BC at TJ at 13 and that didn't cost anything.


Same but I only had to spend $15k on outside enrichment to make that possible!
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.


How do you know that those things were NOT taken into consideration, and that those same students weren’t found wanting in other areas?

You don’t. Plain and simple.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.


How do you know that those things were NOT taken into consideration, and that those same students weren’t found wanting in other areas?

You don’t. Plain and simple.


Now come on that is just silly. You cannot know anything about the current application process if you say this.

I fully support the shift to having a minimum set of seats for all middle schools but WITHIN a middle school and/or for the extra kids not allocated seats from the middle school process I think you do need a way to ensure the tippy top off the charts math kids get in. And there is nothing to guarantee that now.
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Anonymous wrote:Basis is a part of the problem too. In order to survive as a private school in McLean, they allowed all sorts of acceleration to Asian families who wanted an easy in to TJ after 8th grade. These students study math in the evenings after school and all weekend. I think it has lessened a little due to these AIME qualifiers not getting in to TJ with the admissions changes.


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Anonymous wrote:Basis is a part of the problem too. In order to survive as a private school in McLean, they allowed all sorts of acceleration to Asian families who wanted an easy in to TJ after 8th grade. These students study math in the evenings after school and all weekend. I think it has lessened a little due to these AIME qualifiers not getting in to TJ with the admissions changes.


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Studying is not evil. Killing, robbing and raping is evil.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.


How do you know that those things were NOT taken into consideration, and that those same students weren’t found wanting in other areas?

You don’t. Plain and simple.


Now come on that is just silly. You cannot know anything about the current application process if you say this.

I fully support the shift to having a minimum set of seats for all middle schools but WITHIN a middle school and/or for the extra kids not allocated seats from the middle school process I think you do need a way to ensure the tippy top off the charts math kids get in. And there is nothing to guarantee that now.


Some middle schools don’t have “top off the charts” kids but they are not freshmen and sophomores anyway.

You need to stop obsessing about this. TJ’s future has been decided - it will be an above-average high school in the future, not the #1 school in the country.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.


How do you know that those things were NOT taken into consideration, and that those same students weren’t found wanting in other areas?

You don’t. Plain and simple.


Now come on that is just silly. You cannot know anything about the current application process if you say this.

I fully support the shift to having a minimum set of seats for all middle schools but WITHIN a middle school and/or for the extra kids not allocated seats from the middle school process I think you do need a way to ensure the tippy top off the charts math kids get in. And there is nothing to guarantee that now.


Some middle schools don’t have “top off the charts” kids but they are not freshmen and sophomores anyway.

You need to stop obsessing about this. TJ’s future has been decided - it will be an above-average high school in the future, not the #1 school in the country.


I know! When they eliminated the 2nd and 3rd tier preppers and replaced them with naturally gifted students in the selection it made the latest crop of TJ admits among the strongest in the school's history.
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They aren't looking for advanced problem solvers either. Each of the last two years, an 8th grade JMO qualifier got rejected from TJ.

I'm not even specifically stating that kids with high AMC 10 scores or kids taking Calculus in 8th or 9th grade ought to be guaranteed admissions. I think that if a child is taking precalc in 8th, has straight As throughout, and has qualified for AIME a couple times, that kid is the real deal. Kids like this should undoubtedly be accepted to TJ. I would not be surprised if the majority of kids that FCPS has accelerated to Algebra in 5th or earlier would fit this profile.

How would they know about it, since JMO qualifier is well after applications are in.


JMO qualifiers may not be known before applications are due, but the status is known well before TJ decisions are made. Even if the kid didn't state their status on the application, because they wouldn't have known at the time, it would be entirely possible for TJ admissions to take note of the 1 or 2 FCPS 8th graders who made JMO, and then take that into consideration when evaluating applications. The same is the case for Mathcounts. By the end of March, the top kids in the state are known. Someone could audit the TJ applications and make note of the kids who finish in the top 10 in the state.

Also, every JMO qualifier is going to have a very high AMC 10 score. These scores are known before the applications are due. When only 15 8th graders in VA are qualifying for AIME, and the bulk of those are within 10 points of the cutoff, the kids who are > 25 points above the cutoff should stand out.


How do you know that those things were NOT taken into consideration, and that those same students weren’t found wanting in other areas?

You don’t. Plain and simple.


Now come on that is just silly. You cannot know anything about the current application process if you say this.

I fully support the shift to having a minimum set of seats for all middle schools but WITHIN a middle school and/or for the extra kids not allocated seats from the middle school process I think you do need a way to ensure the tippy top off the charts math kids get in. And there is nothing to guarantee that now.


Some middle schools don’t have “top off the charts” kids but they are not freshmen and sophomores anyway.

You need to stop obsessing about this. TJ’s future has been decided - it will be an above-average high school in the future, not the #1 school in the country.


I know! When they eliminated the 2nd and 3rd tier preppers and replaced them with naturally gifted students in the selection it made the latest crop of TJ admits among the strongest in the school's history.


And that's why many of them can't even score pass-advanced on dumbed down SOLs. (They are referred to as LoLs at TJ since they are ridiculously easy to get pass advanced).
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