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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ Admission Results come out today. Creating this thread to standardize the results. While sharing your DC's result, please share:
[b]Admission Decision[/b] - (Offered Admission / Waitlisted / Rejected) [b]Middle School[/b] - [b]GPA [/b]- [b]Highest Level Math Course[/b] - [b]Ethnicity [/b]- [b]Experience Factors [/b]- (Economically Disadvantaged / English Language Learners / Special Ed / None) Thank you, and good luck! [/quote] Rejected Carson 4.0 Algebra 2 Asian None[/quote] oh my i’m so sorry you must be very disappointed. TJ really isn’t choosing the brightest, they are trying to be “equal”…[/quote] The kid might wrote on their essay that they don’t want to go to TJ. Or the essay could be just not tell anything, or they could just not do well on the test. 4.0 + Algebra 2 =/= brightest. |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ Admission Results come out today. Creating this thread to standardize the results. While sharing your DC's result, please share:
[b]Admission Decision[/b] - (Offered Admission / Waitlisted / Rejected) [b]Middle School[/b] - [b]GPA [/b]- [b]Highest Level Math Course[/b] - [b]Ethnicity [/b]- [b]Experience Factors [/b]- (Economically Disadvantaged / English Language Learners / Special Ed / None) Thank you, and good luck! [/quote] Rejected Carson 4.0 Algebra 2 Asian None[/quote] oh my i’m so sorry you must be very disappointed. TJ really isn’t choosing the brightest, they are trying to be “equal”…[/quote] The kid might wrote on their essay that they don’t want to go to TJ. Or the essay could be just not tell anything, or they could just not do well on the test. 4.0 + Algebra 2 =/= brightest.[/quote] If they pick all Algebra-2 students, then all offers may go to just Asian Americans. What about rest of us with lower math? |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ Admission Results come out today. Creating this thread to standardize the results. While sharing your DC's result, please share:
[b]Admission Decision[/b] - (Offered Admission / Waitlisted / Rejected) [b]Middle School[/b] - [b]GPA [/b]- [b]Highest Level Math Course[/b] - [b]Ethnicity [/b]- [b]Experience Factors [/b]- (Economically Disadvantaged / English Language Learners / Special Ed / None) Thank you, and good luck! [/quote] Rejected Carson 4.0 Algebra 2 Asian None[/quote] oh my i’m so sorry you must be very disappointed. TJ really isn’t choosing the brightest, they are trying to be “equal”…[/quote] The kid might wrote on their essay that they don’t want to go to TJ. Or the essay could be just not tell anything, or they could just not do well on the test. 4.0 + Algebra 2 =/= brightest.[/quote] If they pick all Algebra-2 students, then all offers may go to just Asian Americans. What about rest of us with lower math? [/quote] My son and another boy in his Algebra II class both white got in. It isn’t only Asian students who take Algebra II. |
Anonymous
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This thread is just racism waiting to happen. Everyone wants a reason to why your kid wasn’t accepted. Maybe accept it, do better next year, and move on.
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Anonymous
The reason that a lot of the higher achieving students with the highest levels of math abilities aren’t getting in is 💯 because of racism. The school board changed the admissions policy to try to make the TH student body more of a reflection of the overall FCPS student body (less Asian). Nobody can honestly think that a student with only 1 grading period of Algebra I, a 3.5 GPA, and bonus points for “experience factors” would be a better fit for TJ than students who are in Algebra II, with 4.0 GPA, on the math counts or Science Olympiad teams. That is completely ridiculous. Students entering TJ with only Algebra I will not get any benefit out of the advanced post AP classes that only TJ offers. Those students can take four years of math at their base high school and never run out of classes. There are so many students failing Geometry and Algebra II at TJ now that they have a special math path for those students. This is a direct reflection of not ensuring that the students they are choosing have strong math abilities. At a minimum, all students offers should be contingent on receiving a pass advanced score on all middle school math/science SOLs and for this year especially with the retake policy the students should be required to pass math/science with a 4.0 (unweighted). There are so many tests that students already take that the admissions committee could look at. Cogat, NNAT, iReady, MAP. ~I am a parent of a TJ student (not Asian). |
Anonymous
Yeah, it won't take that long, racism replied at speed. It is the easiest reason to blame and it makes you feels good ... regardless its true or not. |
Anonymous
| Why do you want your kid in a pressure cooker that lessens his chances to stand out because their whole lives are about academics and nothing else? Constant competition all day, every day when they can easily stand out at their local high school and not have to compete with the entire class for a top 10? |
Anonymous
Maybe the kid wants to do it and we think they are academic capable? maybe we want them to be able to learn something that is not possible from base school? |
Anonymous
Why do you believe this thread is “just racism waiting to happen” ?? BTW: - the current student body of TJ (grades 9-12) is 81% minority. Look it up. |
Anonymous
I really don't get why folks keep harping about TJ's advanced curriculum and lowered odds of Ivy admission or the perceived ability to shine at the base school... We get it... We would still want the kiddo to have the absolute best education she qualifies for... and are prepping her for life, not just for Ivy admissions. DC will go there for her love of STEM, and for her interest in the rigor of the curriculum, not for the car sticker that we most definitely won't be putting on our car. |
Anonymous
Honestly, they could keep the admissions policy pretty much the same and just add a standardized test. Keep all the quotas, dial back the experience factors a bit and it would make a pretty huge difference. |
Anonymous
Run with the Swift |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ Admission Results come out today. Creating this thread to standardize the results. While sharing your DC's result, please share:
[b]Admission Decision[/b] - (Offered Admission / Waitlisted / Rejected) [b]Middle School[/b] - [b]GPA [/b]- [b]Highest Level Math Course[/b] - [b]Ethnicity [/b]- [b]Experience Factors [/b]- (Economically Disadvantaged / English Language Learners / Special Ed / None) Thank you, and good luck! [/quote] Rejected Carson 4.0 Algebra 2 Asian None[/quote] oh my i’m so sorry you must be very disappointed. TJ really isn’t choosing the brightest, they are trying to be “equal”…[/quote] The kid might wrote on their essay that they don’t want to go to TJ. Or the essay could be just not tell anything, or they could just not do well on the test. 4.0 + Algebra 2 =/= brightest.[/quote] That's not our experience. All the students that got in at our school were the very top kids. |
Anonymous
81% minority but 95% Asian? |
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Admission Decision - Admitted Middle School - Loudoun County area GPA - 4.0 (+ 4.0 in foreign language 1 and 2 since they also count that if you do HS-level foreign languages) Highest Level Math Course - Geometry* Ethnicity - Provided demographic data saying we're Caucasian (we're "functionally white") Experience Factors - No * there's no "honors" level in LCPS that I know of and he'd have had to go to the HS to take Algebra II/Trig FYI, "I can prove anything by statistics except the truth." ~George Canning (Seriously, I'm all for stats/data but some of y'all are...special...) [Authenticate: DTbC081224] |