Non-sense? TJ is not even the No.1 ranked high school in the country. |
This. Except for the top 10-20% of TJ students, the rest are good at memorizing and regurgitating on paper. |
Radical change in admissions system will do that. |
DP. I realize you can't help yourself but what PP was referring to were students admitted under the previous admissions system. I don't know if they're correct but they are implying that the new admissions process will fix a big problem at TJ. Maybe it will create another, that remains to be seen, but it will correct that problem. |
75% of the students were admitted under the NEW system so the vast majority of the students were admitted under the radically changed system. |
Reread the post. Or not, just continue to babble away. You're only talking to yourself anyway. |
Yes, and none of them have applied to college yet. Obviously. |
Regardless of what the reasons are for why they apply, they do apply in large numbers. At least 200 TJ students apply to UVA every year. And sure, some do turn down their offers of admission, but the bottom line is they get admitted at a far lower rate than they did previously. In the 90s and 2000s, the group of TJ students going to UVA mostly came from the 25th-65th percentile of the senior class. Nowadays it's more like the 10th-30th. |
I'd expect the changes to result in better college outcomes in the next few years in addition to having reduced TJ's toxicity. |
It's kind of sad how TJ has declined these past few decades. |
what else can we expect other than continued decline when students are being admitted based on five line essay writing ability than their indepth middle school mastery of math, science and english language. |
Actually, quality has gone up since the latest admission changes. It was the previous two decades that oversaw the decline. |
Ackshually you have no real basis for that statement. Anything else to pull out of your ass tonight? |
This should also manifest in better college outcomes and the restoration of TJ to the number one high school in America as students admitted under the old system age out. |
The quality of kids at TJ has clearly gone down since the admissions changes. I have a kid in one of the new classes who probably wouldn’t have gotten in under the old system. Top TJ teachers are quitting left and right. Apparently they are being asked to lower the rigor of classes and go easier on grading. Better college outcomes? That is to be seen. I think if there are better outcomes the demographic of the students admitted from TJ should be examined and their corresponding academic record. Although the Supreme Court ruled against AA, race is still going to be used (just look at the college essay prompts) along with focus on the relatively new institutional priorities (low income / first generation). |