2025 - TJ Admission Results Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do these large groups of students from schools make it hard for a kid coming from a school without those numbers make it hard to make friends?

I was worried about that too as we are not in a feeder school zone. DC joined marching band though and so made a ton of friends through that before school even started since it meets for 3 weeks in Aug before the first day of school. Doing that or a sport would help with the friend transition. I’m sure some of the other time consuming ECs that start in the fall would likely do a similar thing. It is really nice though to know people the first day already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do these large groups of students from schools make it hard for a kid coming from a school without those numbers make it hard to make friends?

My kid is freshmen and comes from big feeder. He has alot of Ms friends at TJ but none of them are in his circle anymore (only occasional during lunch). His MS friends are all spread out pursuing their own interest activities and his iBet group also almost all new kids to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do these large groups of students from schools make it hard for a kid coming from a school without those numbers make it hard to make friends?

I was worried about that too as we are not in a feeder school zone. DC joined marching band though and so made a ton of friends through that before school even started since it meets for 3 weeks in Aug before the first day of school. Doing that or a sport would help with the friend transition. I’m sure some of the other time consuming ECs that start in the fall would likely do a similar thing. It is really nice though to know people the first day already.

They could easily solve the problem and restrict admission to pure merit like the top 1.5% from each school. Just require all applicants to be in the top 2% of their school or something similar.

[Anonymous]

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

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

Carson continues to impress, as the only school standing "on par" with Longfellow, when Cooper usually holds that spot in the urban myth...

Carson has 709 8th graders and pulls students from other middle schools for AAP. Cooper has 518 8th graders and only has AAP students in the Langley Pyramid.

Carson has an interesting feeder system. While their are more AAP kids that transfer in, the base schools are less TJ focused. Coates, McNair, and Fox Mill don't have reputations for being TJ focused, that is not to say that kids don't apply but they tend to be fewer than Crossfield. I am not sure about Floris but I don't hear it mentioned in the same way that the ES feeding into McLean and Langley are mentioned. Carsons numbers would drop if the Navy kids were moved back to Franklin Farm because I am under the impression that Navy and then Oak Hill are the main drivers of the TJ applications and admissions.

I would expect that Longfellow and Cooper would remain were they are because their ES have more of a reputation of caring about TJ then most of the base schools feeding Carson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do these large groups of students from schools make it hard for a kid coming from a school without those numbers make it hard to make friends?

I was worried about that too as we are not in a feeder school zone. DC joined marching band though and so made a ton of friends through that before school even started since it meets for 3 weeks in Aug before the first day of school. Doing that or a sport would help with the friend transition. I’m sure some of the other time consuming ECs that start in the fall would likely do a similar thing. It is really nice though to know people the first day already.

They could easily solve the problem and restrict admission to pure merit like the top 1.5% from each school. Just require all applicants to be in the top 2% of their school or something similar.

They would not get to 500 students in a class that way. Carson would have space for 14 kids, 709 8th graders, Cooper would have 10 kids, 518 8th graders. And that doesn't take into consideration that there are schools were fewer kids then the 1.5% apply or that there are schools were kids apply and then choose to go to their base school so that the 5 kids accepted becomes 2 kids attending.

[Anonymous]

Anybody knows about APS admission status and how kids do there? They usually have 20+ kids every year from the 6 MS combined (so 3-4 each school) but seems most kids are not on Algebra 2 track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anybody knows about APS admission status and how kids do there? They usually have 20+ kids every year from the 6 MS combined (so 3-4 each school) but seems most kids are not on Algebra 2 track.

At least two people posted about kids admitted from APS, it might have been 3, you can go check the first 3-4 pages of the thread.

[Anonymous]

Re aps

At DHMS 5 got offers. 1 on waitlist.
1 from hb Woodlawn

That’s all I heard

[Anonymous]

Kids from DHMS are in geometry hons. Hb Woodlawn kid is algebra 2

[Anonymous]

Anyone can tell me how to calculate the GPA, I know my kid only has A on their grade book. Does the percentage also get count?

[Anonymous]

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

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

Carson continues to impress, as the only school standing "on par" with Longfellow, when Cooper usually holds that spot in the urban myth...

Carson has 709 8th graders and pulls students from other middle schools for AAP. Cooper has 518 8th graders and only has AAP students in the Langley Pyramid.

Carson has an interesting feeder system. While their are more AAP kids that transfer in, the base schools are less TJ focused. Coates, McNair, and Fox Mill don't have reputations for being TJ focused, that is not to say that kids don't apply but they tend to be fewer than Crossfield. I am not sure about Floris but I don't hear it mentioned in the same way that the ES feeding into McLean and Langley are mentioned. Carsons numbers would drop if the Navy kids were moved back to Franklin Farm because I am under the impression that Navy and then Oak Hill are the main drivers of the TJ applications and admissions.

I would expect that Longfellow and Cooper would remain were they are because their ES have more of a reputation of caring about TJ then most of the base schools feeding Carson.

This is just flat-out wrong. The Carson AAP families generally are more focused on TJ because the gap between TJ and the base schools is considered larger than the gap between TJ and Langley or McLean.

[Anonymous]

Just curious - the number of offers per school is not final, pending waitlist movement (e.g., Carson could go above or below 48), so why publish them now?

[Anonymous]

Carson will go above 48 for sure. This is TJ’s way to pat themselves on the back for making offers to all MS. I don’t know if the final numbers are ever published.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Before the admissions changes they used to give the number of students applying % and the number of students accepted and the % from each race:

This is from 2020 admissions
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

It would be interesting to see how many kids applied from each category and then were accepted and the percentages for 2029.

Revealing that would show that the Asian American students acceptance rate is the lowest compared to other race groups. That would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

It would explicitly show the democrats blatant racism against Asian people in Northern Virginia.

[Anonymous]

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

Carson Middle School - 48 (+10 change from Class of 2028 offers)
Cooper Middle School - 25 (+1)
Frost Middle School - 19 (-12)
Katherine Johnson Middle School - 14 (-1)
Kilmer Middle School - 13 (-22)
Lake Braddock Middle School - 17 (+3)
Longfellow Middle School - 48 (+8)
Rocky Run Middle School - 22 (+3)

change from Class of 2028 offers in parenthesis

Carson continues to impress, as the only school standing "on par" with Longfellow, when Cooper usually holds that spot in the urban myth...

Carson has 709 8th graders and pulls students from other middle schools for AAP. Cooper has 518 8th graders and only has AAP students in the Langley Pyramid.

Carson has an interesting feeder system. While their are more AAP kids that transfer in, the base schools are less TJ focused. Coates, McNair, and Fox Mill don't have reputations for being TJ focused, that is not to say that kids don't apply but they tend to be fewer than Crossfield. I am not sure about Floris but I don't hear it mentioned in the same way that the ES feeding into McLean and Langley are mentioned. Carsons numbers would drop if the Navy kids were moved back to Franklin Farm because I am under the impression that Navy and then Oak Hill are the main drivers of the TJ applications and admissions.

I would expect that Longfellow and Cooper would remain were they are because their ES have more of a reputation of caring about TJ then most of the base schools feeding Carson.

This is just flat-out wrong. The Carson AAP families generally are more focused on TJ because the gap between TJ and the base schools is considered larger than the gap between TJ and Langley or McLean.

Some of the Carson families are but not all. I don’t think the families that go to Oakton are as focused on TJ, although they apply. I know nothing about McNair or Coates but I have never heard people discuss that being an ES AAP that is focused on TJ. I know Fox Mill is not, there are a few kids who will apply but it is not a school wide ambition. Crossfield seems to be in between Fox Mill and Navy, I would guess that the more TJ driven families move to Navy. I know Navy and Oak Hill have more of a reputation for wanting TJ.

That said, the idea that the schools have a larger gap between TJ and the base makes sense.