Waitlisted at TJ - now what?

[Anonymous]

I don't think the waitlist has moved yet. Maybe this Friday, June 24th.

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Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Some of the "top" replied yes to the meals question too.

+1

Many of the top students have parents in the know. These parents knew about the loophole from the parents in the class of 2025.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

How does public MS decides top kid?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

How does public MS decides top kid?

The middle schools don’t decide. The TJ Admissions officers decide who gets into TJ, including the students admitted based on the 1.5% minim for every middle school. So if the middle school has 600 8th graders, there should be at least 9 kids admitted to TJ, but the middle school doesn’t pick those kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

How does public MS decides top kid?

Oh, and PP just pretends to know who the top kids are at her kid’s school. It’s creepy but that how some of these TJ-obsessed parents have been “sizing up the competition” for years. They are sure they know everything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Some of the "top" replied yes to the meals question too.

+1

Many of the top students have parents in the know. These parents knew about the loophole from the parents in the class of 2025.

They have no integrity or ethics. I'm glad their kids won't be attending TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

Name the school, or it didn't happen. Are teachers even given a list of who got selected for TJ? Also, I highly doubt that even a regular teacher at a middle school could say with any assurance that the top kids got in. Hypothetically, let's say you're the 8th grade AAP science teacher. You're going to teach like 150 kids total out of 300+ AAP kids, which is hardly great coverage of the grade to definitively state that the best kids were taken. Even if you were the Science Olympiad coach, you're not interacting with the Mathcounts or robotics whizzes.

Just admit that you're trolling and making stuff up to try to support your agenda. It's blatantly obvious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

Name the school, or it didn't happen. Are teachers even given a list of who got selected for TJ? Also, I highly doubt that even a regular teacher at a middle school could say with any assurance that the top kids got in. Hypothetically, let's say you're the 8th grade AAP science teacher. You're going to teach like 150 kids total out of 300+ AAP kids, which is hardly great coverage of the grade to definitively state that the best kids were taken. Even if you were the Science Olympiad coach, you're not interacting with the Mathcounts or robotics whizzes.

Just admit that you're trolling and making stuff up to try to support your agenda. It's blatantly obvious.

the winners of STEM EC activities are usually the top kids. It's not hard to know who are they.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

Name the school, or it didn't happen. Are teachers even given a list of who got selected for TJ? Also, I highly doubt that even a regular teacher at a middle school could say with any assurance that the top kids got in. Hypothetically, let's say you're the 8th grade AAP science teacher. You're going to teach like 150 kids total out of 300+ AAP kids, which is hardly great coverage of the grade to definitively state that the best kids were taken. Even if you were the Science Olympiad coach, you're not interacting with the Mathcounts or robotics whizzes.

Just admit that you're trolling and making stuff up to try to support your agenda. It's blatantly obvious.

the winners of STEM EC activities are usually the top kids. It's not hard to know who are they.

Nice dodge. The TJ application does not include a section for ECs or achievements, and there is no indication that they're giving any weight to those. Are the members of the selection panel psychics to be able to determine who these top kids are and offer admissions?

If the "teacher" is so sure that all of the very top kids at their Longfellow/Carson/Rocky Run/Frost/etc. school got accepted, then name the school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

Name the school, or it didn't happen. Are teachers even given a list of who got selected for TJ? Also, I highly doubt that even a regular teacher at a middle school could say with any assurance that the top kids got in. Hypothetically, let's say you're the 8th grade AAP science teacher. You're going to teach like 150 kids total out of 300+ AAP kids, which is hardly great coverage of the grade to definitively state that the best kids were taken. Even if you were the Science Olympiad coach, you're not interacting with the Mathcounts or robotics whizzes.

Just admit that you're trolling and making stuff up to try to support your agenda. It's blatantly obvious.

the winners of STEM EC activities are usually the top kids. It's not hard to know who are they.

Nice dodge. The TJ application does not include a section for ECs or achievements, and there is no indication that they're giving any weight to those. Are the members of the selection panel psychics to be able to determine who these top kids are and offer admissions?

If the "teacher" is so sure that all of the very top kids at their Longfellow/Carson/Rocky Run/Frost/etc. school got accepted, then name the school.

When you have awards as the proofs, it is easy to make a good portrait.
I do think FCPS should create a database to record these awards and show them on FCPS website.

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Anonymous wrote:If you child was denied, but you did not file an appeal, any chance the FRMS scandal will change the outcome?

It is a mess, so who knows.

For some of the schools, it would not surprise me if ALL of the kids who were accepted checked yes and ALMOST all of the waitlisted kids checked yes. All of the honest kids were rejected.

What will TJ Admissions do then? How will it look when Longfellow has only a handful of admissions after they clean out all the false “Yes” answers.

I know a ton of Longfellow kids that got waitlisted. These were not families that would have lied. I only know a few kids that were accepted. These are also not families that would have lied. The kids that were accepted are perfectly deserving of being accepted, great students, but so are the kids that weren’t accepted. It just appears random. My child didn’t apply so I have no personal stake, but many of child’s friends applied.

More than half of the very top longfellow kids were accepted. I mean very top. Some were left in the waiting pool.
There are also students who are not very strong got accepted. Probably these are the free meal students.
Anyway, the longfellow admission is not like somebody imagined that all accepted and waitlisted students are free meal students.

Out of curiosity, how do you know who the “very top” Longfellow kids are? And how do you know that more than half of these were accepted? That is a lot of personal information that you keep track of and that FCPS does not publish.

It is likely that many kids don’t know how their parents responded to the parents’ part of the form and are curious. Many parents are trying to avoid embarrassment with their own kids and that likely explains the PPs claim above.

Nobody really knows who the very top kids are….

The very top kids in my mind are those top students in math counts, science Olympiad, Quizbowl, AMC8/AMC10 etc. Longfellow has the most national award winners in FCPS. In my observation, most of these kids end up being accepted in TJ.

Kids know who got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected.

And some of them said yes on the meals question.

At our school the top kids were accepted, but many of the second string who might make the cut in the past with thousands of dollars in outside prep did not. It seems like the new process is working as intended.

At our school, the top kid was accepted. The rest of the top kids were not accepted. It looks like the second string was not accepted either.

Same at our school. 1 of the top 15 or son cohort accepted. The others that were accepted were middling and certainly at a lower level of Math and STEM EC participation. In a weird way, it seems like the process is working as intended.

As a teacher at one of the top schools, I can safely say the very top kids were accepted. Many parents don't have all the info and make a lot of assumptions, but the county did a great job finding the best of the best.

Name the school, or it didn't happen. Are teachers even given a list of who got selected for TJ? Also, I highly doubt that even a regular teacher at a middle school could say with any assurance that the top kids got in. Hypothetically, let's say you're the 8th grade AAP science teacher. You're going to teach like 150 kids total out of 300+ AAP kids, which is hardly great coverage of the grade to definitively state that the best kids were taken. Even if you were the Science Olympiad coach, you're not interacting with the Mathcounts or robotics whizzes.

Just admit that you're trolling and making stuff up to try to support your agenda. It's blatantly obvious.

the winners of STEM EC activities are usually the top kids. It's not hard to know who are they.

Nice dodge. The TJ application does not include a section for ECs or achievements, and there is no indication that they're giving any weight to those. Are the members of the selection panel psychics to be able to determine who these top kids are and offer admissions?

If the "teacher" is so sure that all of the very top kids at their Longfellow/Carson/Rocky Run/Frost/etc. school got accepted, then name the school.

When you have awards as the proofs, it is easy to make a good portrait.
I do think FCPS should create a database to record these awards and show them on FCPS website.

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