Thomas Jefferson High School drops to 5th in latest US News ranking

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

Again, there is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Again, the goal was to expand access to TJ to kids across the area. The biggest changes were the increase in the # of kids from economically-disadvantaged families AND the increase in the number of female students.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

No one is saying anything any different. There is inherent value in diversity in educational environments - ESPECIALLY in high-academic educational environments. That includes diversity among racial, experiential, and socioeconomic axes.

No one feels shame in stating that fact and no one is "admitting" to anything because there's no crime or bad action to feel bad for.

Those of us who are reasonable understand that there are still tweaks to be made to ensure that we're getting the right students from each school both to apply for admission and to eventually be selected, but the new process represents an enormous step in the right direction.

And we're not ashamed of any of it.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Stop lying.
The sole purpose of adjusting the admission is to achieve diversity.
You even feel shame to admit the fact.

No one is saying anything any different. There is inherent value in diversity in educational environments - ESPECIALLY in high-academic educational environments. That includes diversity among racial, experiential, and socioeconomic axes.

No one feels shame in stating that fact and no one is "admitting" to anything because there's no crime or bad action to feel bad for.

Those of us who are reasonable understand that there are still tweaks to be made to ensure that we're getting the right students from each school both to apply for admission and to eventually be selected, but the new process represents an enormous step in the right direction.

And we're not ashamed of any of it.

+1

(and gender)

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Anonymous wrote:Justice Roberts wrote: "Harvard's admissions process rests on the pernicious stereotype that 'a black student can usually bring something that a white person cannot offer.'"

How does diversity help in a STEM school likes TJ? I think it is irrelevant.
Do students from different races see Navier-Stokes equations differently?

What Justice Roberts describes is not a “pernicious stereotype”. It is a reality that sadly centers around the fact that the experience of Black, Hispanic, and poor Americans is fundamentally different in America - just as it is in many ways for Asians - solely because of the color of their skin.

That will continue to be the case until we actually treat folks in those underrepresented groups with the same dignity and respect as everyone else AS A SOCIETY.

If we want it to no longer be the case that “a Black person can offer something that a white person cannot offer”…

… a good place to start would be to stop spewing this nonsense that Black kids are too lazy, or that Black families don’t care about education, and on and on and on.

The kids at TJ are learning this by being exposed to academically motivated kids from those cultures - probably for the first time in their lives.

SO MUCH THIS

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Anonymous wrote:The Class of 2026 was the first TJ class in 35 years to be majority-female. Generally speaking, classes have been 55-60% male.

Is giving Asian girls a fair shot a bad thing?

This is what I would expect from a process that prioritizes essay writing.

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Anonymous wrote:The Class of 2026 was the first TJ class in 35 years to be majority-female. Generally speaking, classes have been 55-60% male.

Is giving Asian girls a fair shot a bad thing?

This is what I would expect from a process that prioritizes essay writing.

Why? Do you think boys can't write?

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Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, so many people in this forum believe discrimination and war on meritocracy are good for our country.

It’s not discrimination.

Not race based and Asians have the highest number and rate of admission.

It is discrimination. You can not based on race to reject applicants, regardless of the situation.

Not discrimination.

Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

It is wrong. The race-based admission process is unethical.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin."

It wis not race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Stop just paste and copy

Stop posting lies.

You are a pathetic liar, panhandler

Sorry, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow.

The current admissions process is NOT race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Why is anyone so fixated on Asian Student number if not with a racial bias? Does the all black high school basketball or all white ice hockey team bother anyone aside from those with racist views?

There was a concentrated ant-asian american effort that has taken place behind the scenes, to bring down average number for asian americans admitted per year for decades. Without a deliberate and covert endeavor targeting this specific race, how else could have the Asian american students admissions gone down abruptly in one year when the number of Asian American student applications has stayed consistently at or above 60% of total?

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Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, so many people in this forum believe discrimination and war on meritocracy are good for our country.

It’s not discrimination.

Not race based and Asians have the highest number and rate of admission.

It is discrimination. You can not based on race to reject applicants, regardless of the situation.

Not discrimination.

Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

It is wrong. The race-based admission process is unethical.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin."

It wis not race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Stop just paste and copy

Stop posting lies.

You are a pathetic liar, panhandler

Sorry, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow.

The current admissions process is NOT race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Why is anyone so fixated on Asian Student number if not with a racial bias? Does the all black high school basketball or all white ice hockey team bother anyone aside from those with racist views?

There was a concentrated ant-asian american effort that has taken place behind the scenes, to bring down average number for asian americans admitted per year for decades. Without a deliberate and covert endeavor targeting this specific race, how else could have the Asian american students admissions gone down abruptly in one year when the number of Asian American student applications has stayed consistently at or above 60% of total?

These people are hypocrites. They cry foul when white people discriminate against them. And then, they love standing on high ground to discriminate against others whenever it is good for them.
They have no shame, no moral at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, so many people in this forum believe discrimination and war on meritocracy are good for our country.

It’s not discrimination.

Not race based and Asians have the highest number and rate of admission.

It is discrimination. You can not based on race to reject applicants, regardless of the situation.

Not discrimination.

Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

It is wrong. The race-based admission process is unethical.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin."

It wis not race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Stop just paste and copy

Stop posting lies.

You are a pathetic liar, panhandler

Sorry, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow.

The current admissions process is NOT race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Why is anyone so fixated on Asian Student number if not with a racial bias? Does the all black high school basketball or all white ice hockey team bother anyone aside from those with racist views?

There was a concentrated ant-asian american effort that has taken place behind the scenes, to bring down average number for asian americans admitted per year for decades. Without a deliberate and covert endeavor targeting this specific race, how else could have the Asian american students admissions gone down abruptly in one year when the number of Asian American student applications has stayed consistently at or above 60% of total?

You are the one fixated on race. The % of Asian students admitted for class of 2025 is higher than it was for class of 2013 (and prior).

The goal was to increase representation from across the area. Asian students still make up the large majority of the school. And the "feeder schools" continue to have an over-sized representation at TJ.

The biggest decrease was actually for private school students (-56%).

No discrimination.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Sure some are entitled. Stop lying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Justice Roberts wrote: "Harvard's admissions process rests on the pernicious stereotype that 'a black student can usually bring something that a white person cannot offer.'"

How does diversity help in a STEM school likes TJ? I think it is irrelevant.
Do students from different races see Navier-Stokes equations differently?

What Justice Roberts describes is not a “pernicious stereotype”. It is a reality that sadly centers around the fact that the experience of Black, Hispanic, and poor Americans is fundamentally different in America - just as it is in many ways for Asians - solely because of the color of their skin.

That will continue to be the case until we actually treat folks in those underrepresented groups with the same dignity and respect as everyone else AS A SOCIETY.

If we want it to no longer be the case that “a Black person can offer something that a white person cannot offer”…

… a good place to start would be to stop spewing this nonsense that Black kids are too lazy, or that Black families don’t care about education, and on and on and on.

The kids at TJ are learning this by being exposed to academically motivated kids from those cultures - probably for the first time in their lives.

If Black people really love diversity, why do they physically attack Asians all over the country?

They don't. You're going to have to cite a credible news source or study to suggest that Black people physically attack Asians all over the country.

You're trying to justify the fact that you hate them and think less of them and it's ugly.

+1

The blatant racism is very ugly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Class of 2026 was the first TJ class in 35 years to be majority-female. Generally speaking, classes have been 55-60% male.

Is giving Asian girls a fair shot a bad thing?

This is what I would expect from a process that prioritizes essay writing.

Sexist and racist is an ugly look

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

And this is why TJ is such a healthier place now - they've begun replacing the parents. The kids selected by the old process have never been the problem.

How's TJ healthier now? Why suppressing the parents (the tax payers) is a good thing?

The focus is moving away from prestige and individualism and in the direction of a complete education that prepares students to collaborate with a 21st century population.

So, implementing discrimination and parent suppression would achieve that. Wow

Race is not considered during the admissions process.

And Asians have the highest rate and number of admissions. So...

No discrimination.

Don't lie. The main reason to keep changing the admission process is to engineer the racial demographic

Nope. It was to provide opportunities to kids from ALL middle schools.

You cannot get free rides all the time. At some point in your life you have to work hard to get ahead.

Nobody here is getting a “free ride”. Kids are all working hard. Now, hard working kids from more MSs have access to TJ. It’s a good thing.

You deny it because you feel shame to accept the reality.

There is no shame that hard-working, well-qualified kids from more MSs now have access to TJ.

Source/ any data to support your comment?
Why do you need quota then?
Why not compete fairly with others?

All kids met GPA/course criteria. These kids have higher GPAs, on average, than before the change.

Then why there are quotas in the system?
You still don't want to admit the reality.

There aren’t race-based quotas. There are seats open to all MSs - if and only if they have qualified applicants.

Come on. Each locality has a certain demographic composition. FCPS just masks their race-based intent.
You can't be that naive, right?

The biggest change was better representation of kids from low-income families. Prior to the change, kids from economically-disadvantaged families were <1% of the class.

Also, the # of women admitted (for class of 2025) increased more than any other group.

FCPS can do that in a fair, moral, and more productive way.
For examples:
- Additional programs to help URM students (free tutoring, music lessons, extracurricular classes)
- Build more STEM schools
- Encourage URM kids to STEM activities starting from Pre-K

Taking seats away from applicants with higher credentials is wrong.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at TJ. There are way more qualified applicants than there are seats.

Sure some are entitled. Stop lying.

Who do you think is entitled to a seat at TJ? Try to answer without sounding like a racist.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazingly, so many people in this forum believe discrimination and war on meritocracy are good for our country.

It’s not discrimination.

Not race based and Asians have the highest number and rate of admission.

It is discrimination. You can not based on race to reject applicants, regardless of the situation.

Not discrimination.

Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

It is wrong. The race-based admission process is unethical.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin."

It wis not race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Stop just paste and copy

Stop posting lies.

You are a pathetic liar, panhandler

Sorry, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow.

The current admissions process is NOT race-based.

And Asians students have the highest number of admits and the highest rate of admission.

No discrimination.

Why is anyone so fixated on Asian Student number if not with a racial bias? Does the all black high school basketball or all white ice hockey team bother anyone aside from those with racist views?

There was a concentrated ant-asian american effort that has taken place behind the scenes, to bring down average number for asian americans admitted per year for decades. Without a deliberate and covert endeavor targeting this specific race, how else could have the Asian american students admissions gone down abruptly in one year when the number of Asian American student applications has stayed consistently at or above 60% of total?

You are the one fixated on race. The % of Asian students admitted for class of 2025 is higher than it was for class of 2013 (and prior).

The goal was to increase representation from across the area. Asian students still make up the large majority of the school. And the "feeder schools" continue to have an over-sized representation at TJ.

The biggest decrease was actually for private school students (-56%).

No discrimination.

"increase representation from across the area"? What kind of logic is that? It is not an election for a local representative?
Why do you conveniently choose "class of 2013"? not 2024, 2023, or 2022?