Reasons why one would not accept TJ offer?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the dating scene like at TJ? The stereotype might suggest it's one big nerd world, but how does it really compare to the base school?
... asking on behalf of an applicant

We are talking about 14 to 18 yo. Is this even a topic to consider at this young age? seriously??

You must not have attended HS in the US. Of course kids in HS date.

HS Kids outside of US date as well.

I was not implying HS kids do not date. I was just surprised why would anyone give much thought so to ask "What is the dating scene like at TJ?" .

As PP said she was asking for an applicant, I assume an 8th grade boy is pondering this question. while yes we might view that as a silly thing to fixate on, for an 8th grade boy it may feel important.

Ha. It’s the 8th grade girls who should worry. TJ boys aren’t ready for prime time. They need another year or two to mature. 😀

Just don't generalize this about girls! Not all girls are looking to date in HS. Similarly, there are boys who are more than ready in HS.

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Both boys and girls at TJ, like other high school teenagers, have to deal with the natural surge in hormones and the curiosity to explore romantic connections. While the thought likely crosses their mind often, whether they have the time to act on it is a whole different aspect.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents really need to get out of their head the idea that there is (or should be) anything objective about the admissions process at any college.

Colleges, because they have the freedom to do so, evaluate the entire admissions profile and make decisions about how to put together a class that fits and achieves the goals of the university, whatever they might be. Businesses do the same thing when they hire people.

UVA admits and gives full scholarships to kids with low-3 GPAs and 11-1200 SAT scores because they need help on the football, baseball, or lacrosse team. They have the right to do that and it's in their best interest to do so. They have the capacity to admit more students than they might otherwise because of money that flows in either directly from their extremely successful athletic program or because of donations that are inspired by their extremely successful athletic program. That's how many colleges work.

Stop obsessing over all of the metrics - they matter a lot less than you think they do - and start developing kids that universities believe will either give donations or inspire them.

To follow up on this - parents and students who spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out the "magic formula" are wasting their time. There isn't one.

Schools are looking for what they are looking for and they don't publish that information for very understandable reasons. And what they are looking for changes constantly in response to how each admitted class looks and how each admitted class performs.

I don't blame parents for wanting to understand exactly what the rules of the game are so that they can follow them to the letter - but expecting that schools are going to tell you exactly what to do, or even have an explicit set of rules that they follow relentlessly, is just silly nonsense.

That's a presumptuous thing to say.

Uhhh, how so? NP but seems pretty spot on to me, and franky empathetic, but certainly nothing there that seems particularly bold or out-of-bounds.

Really? Everyone on this board is obsessing over all the metrics which is a problem because metrics do not equate to acceptance rate? I disagree. All else being equal, the higher the score, the better the odds.

Yes, of course, all else being equal, the better the score the better the odds. That goes without saying.

But all else is almost NEVER equal. Every kid is different and every circumstance is different, at least in most cases.

The trouble is, when you get a ton of kids applying from a relatively closed community where everyone’s experience largely mirrors one another’s, then you end up in that situation where everything else IS relatively equal. And frequently, those families can’t empathize with kids who come from those other circumstances because they don’t ever see them.

In many ways, that’s the point of AAP, in fact.

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It's been a couple years since my kids were at TJ, but my white boys were fairly aggressively pursued esp in advance of Homecoming. 😁 But if memory serves, it was more the idea of having a date than some sort of long term relationship activity.

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If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

No. It has to be retaken during the year. There are also reinforcement courses like Math 2.5, but the trade-off is it pushes out math 3 by half year

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Anonymous wrote:Distance
Pressure
Lack of social life
No time for other activities
Difficult to get into MIT or other top tier engineering/science programs due to competition

How difficult or easy to get into UVA , VTech?

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

That's fake news.

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

That's fake news.

It's the policy.

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

Yes, it is.
Regulation 3355.15

" An enrolled student must maintain a cumulative B average (unweighted 3.0 grade point
average) at the end of each school year to remain a student in good standing at
TJHSST."

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

Yes, it is.
Regulation 3355.15

" An enrolled student must maintain a cumulative B average (unweighted 3.0 grade point
average) at the end of each school year to remain a student in good standing at
TJHSST."

Toothless against senioritis.

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Anonymous wrote:If math grade is low, can the course be retaken in summer, like how it is allowed in regular high school?

I doubt there are enough TJ students with low grades in math to warrant this.

Tj says they have students with GPA as low as 3.2 weighted/ 2.7 unweighted. Doesn't it take quite a number of Cs to get that low of a GPA?

Thought saw in other post that kids must maintain 3.0 average?

Yes, it is.
Regulation 3355.15

" An enrolled student must maintain a cumulative B average (unweighted 3.0 grade point
average) at the end of each school year to remain a student in good standing at
TJHSST."

How can the supposedly no.1 stem magnet school admit students who are struggling to maintain bare minimum GPA?