Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

Something to consider. Colleges are not requiring SAT/ACT scores and want more diversity too so the TJ good test taker type Asian students would not succeed as much as they did in college admissions moving forward.

[Anonymous]

% of offers to Asian applicants seems to have dropped about 20%. But increased for whites.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Curie? I didn't know this fact. If you believe Curie did help those kids, why don't you send your kid there? Because you are too poor or you want to spend money on yourself not on your kids? Asian parents values education. They are not privileged at all. All of those kids who got in because of their talent and hard work. If you are underprepared, don't blame on other people for over preparing. If your kid is lazy, don't blame other kids for working hard.

Do you not realize how racist you sound?

DP. So.. if you don't agree with something, just call them racist.. Do you realize that stopped working a while back

[Anonymous]

Time will tell, but I highly doubt the prestige of the school will diminish in any way.

[Anonymous]

There are people who literally move to this area to try to get their kids into this high school. Many will talk about it constantly. When the relevant period arrives, and they stop talking, you know it's a "no" and off to generic big box or private they go.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Or to shill for a racist agenda which looks pretty on the surface, because it's too hard to believe that smart people legitimately know how to solve tough problems. "As the evidence suggests" is sometimes sadly just something someone will say to feel self-important.

And rich people know how to game a system by making their average kid appear smarter than they are by taking prep classes. This results in an average kid who is prepped ending up with a magnet seat over a kid who is genuinely gifted but lacked the same educational opportunities the wealthy kids' families provided. This is the start of a cycle that lends itself to the toxic environment which is TJ today.

I really don't know how anyone can look at the accomplishments of the student body and say TJ was getting the wrong kids. Please be honest with yourself and admit you just don't like that hard brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and extremely committed Asians students were dominating the admissions and it was simply unrealistic to do anything to counter that than lower the bar and give a boost to the demographics you wanted to favor in the admissions process. The school board never said they weren't getting gifted kids, they just felt the test was a barrier to entry for others because it was too hard and advanced for the level of schooling these students were receiving from elementary through middle school.

Yep. It was all about race. All the other nonsense from half-brained posters here was about justifying that.

At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".

They DO say "You are Black. You must have gotten where you are through quotas. You are not intelligent. No job for you!". The focus should be on changing this. Not prolong this for a couple of more generations. Sad.

Like everyone here is saying. The "prepped" Asian kids for the most part will end up at Chantilly, Oakton, Madison, McLean or Langley and vastly improve the stature of those schools (Happy) but the preceptions noted above will continue (Sad).

And oh, the school board as it stands, is likely fu**ed at the next election

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something to consider. Colleges are not requiring SAT/ACT scores and want more diversity too so the TJ good test taker type Asian students would not succeed as much as they did in college admissions moving forward.

And yet the so called prepped kids in the TJ class of 2021 have surpassed expectations as far as college admissions are considered when this year has been test optional. Go figure!

It does not matter whether the tests become optional or not, genuinely hardworking kids with good work ethics will continue to shine no matter what, and now more so in base schools than TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My youngest DS is accepted but it is very surprising to just see either accepted or waitlisted. So far everyone that we know from his school or the extended friends from his sports/clubs is either accepted or waitlisted. We went through this twice with our older kids and accepted and the waitlisted was far less than rejected. This time around, they have placed almost everyone that has not accepted on the waitlist bucket

Yep. They want to hold on to enough "non-TJ traditional" kids (i.e. non-Asians) on the waitlist so they can preserve the Asian reduction they so painfully achieved IF a lot of kids drop out.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Or to shill for a racist agenda which looks pretty on the surface, because it's too hard to believe that smart people legitimately know how to solve tough problems. "As the evidence suggests" is sometimes sadly just something someone will say to feel self-important.

And rich people know how to game a system by making their average kid appear smarter than they are by taking prep classes. This results in an average kid who is prepped ending up with a magnet seat over a kid who is genuinely gifted but lacked the same educational opportunities the wealthy kids' families provided. This is the start of a cycle that lends itself to the toxic environment which is TJ today.

I really don't know how anyone can look at the accomplishments of the student body and say TJ was getting the wrong kids. Please be honest with yourself and admit you just don't like that hard brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and extremely committed Asians students were dominating the admissions and it was simply unrealistic to do anything to counter that than lower the bar and give a boost to the demographics you wanted to favor in the admissions process. The school board never said they weren't getting gifted kids, they just felt the test was a barrier to entry for others because it was too hard and advanced for the level of schooling these students were receiving from elementary through middle school.

Yep. It was all about race. All the other nonsense from half-brained posters here was about justifying that.

At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".

They DO say "You are Black. You must have gotten where you are through quotas. You are not intelligent. No job for you!". The focus should be on changing this. Not prolong this for a couple of more generations. Sad.

Like everyone here is saying. The "prepped" Asian kids for the most part will end up at Chantilly, Oakton, Madison, McLean or Langley and vastly improve the stature of those schools (Happy) but the preceptions noted above will continue (Sad).

And oh, the school board as it stands, is likely fu**ed at the next election

I highly doubt that about the school board.

[Anonymous]

“At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".”

Why do you say this so confidently? There is lots of data about how Asian Americans can’t get higher level jobs and lots of discussion about the discrimination and stereotypes that are involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look on the bright side. Maybe TJ can have a football team again that doesn't play against the nuns, random groups of homeschooled kids, and DC charters with student bodies about 1/10th the size of TJ.

Or, the kid passionate about football can stay at base HS and get joy out of chasing a pigskin around the field.

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Anonymous wrote:“At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".”

Why do you say this so confidently? There is lots of data about how Asian Americans can’t get higher level jobs and lots of discussion about the discrimination and stereotypes that are involved.

We are not talking about higher level jobs here. The factors that impact higher level jobs are a lot different with no relevance to academic or intellectual ability.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Or to shill for a racist agenda which looks pretty on the surface, because it's too hard to believe that smart people legitimately know how to solve tough problems. "As the evidence suggests" is sometimes sadly just something someone will say to feel self-important.

And rich people know how to game a system by making their average kid appear smarter than they are by taking prep classes. This results in an average kid who is prepped ending up with a magnet seat over a kid who is genuinely gifted but lacked the same educational opportunities the wealthy kids' families provided. This is the start of a cycle that lends itself to the toxic environment which is TJ today.

I really don't know how anyone can look at the accomplishments of the student body and say TJ was getting the wrong kids. Please be honest with yourself and admit you just don't like that hard brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and extremely committed Asians students were dominating the admissions and it was simply unrealistic to do anything to counter that than lower the bar and give a boost to the demographics you wanted to favor in the admissions process. The school board never said they weren't getting gifted kids, they just felt the test was a barrier to entry for others because it was too hard and advanced for the level of schooling these students were receiving from elementary through middle school.

Yep. It was all about race. All the other nonsense from half-brained posters here was about justifying that.

At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".

They DO say "You are Black. You must have gotten where you are through quotas. You are not intelligent. No job for you!". The focus should be on changing this. Not prolong this for a couple of more generations. Sad.

Like everyone here is saying. The "prepped" Asian kids for the most part will end up at Chantilly, Oakton, Madison, McLean or Langley and vastly improve the stature of those schools (Happy) but the preceptions noted above will continue (Sad).

And oh, the school board as it stands, is likely fu**ed at the next election

I highly doubt that about the school board.

You are wrong.. I generally never care about who I'm voting for on the school board and vote along party lines (i.e. I pick whoever the democratic party recommends). When the next election comes around, I won't have a kid in FCPS. However, I will pay a lot of attention to who I vote for. Even if choose to vote for a democrat (which I always do), the school board will NOT be these commies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Or to shill for a racist agenda which looks pretty on the surface, because it's too hard to believe that smart people legitimately know how to solve tough problems. "As the evidence suggests" is sometimes sadly just something someone will say to feel self-important.

And rich people know how to game a system by making their average kid appear smarter than they are by taking prep classes. This results in an average kid who is prepped ending up with a magnet seat over a kid who is genuinely gifted but lacked the same educational opportunities the wealthy kids' families provided. This is the start of a cycle that lends itself to the toxic environment which is TJ today.

I really don't know how anyone can look at the accomplishments of the student body and say TJ was getting the wrong kids. Please be honest with yourself and admit you just don't like that hard brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and extremely committed Asians students were dominating the admissions and it was simply unrealistic to do anything to counter that than lower the bar and give a boost to the demographics you wanted to favor in the admissions process. The school board never said they weren't getting gifted kids, they just felt the test was a barrier to entry for others because it was too hard and advanced for the level of schooling these students were receiving from elementary through middle school.

Yep. It was all about race. All the other nonsense from half-brained posters here was about justifying that.

At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".

They DO say "You are Black. You must have gotten where you are through quotas. You are not intelligent. No job for you!". The focus should be on changing this. Not prolong this for a couple of more generations. Sad.

Like everyone here is saying. The "prepped" Asian kids for the most part will end up at Chantilly, Oakton, Madison, McLean or Langley and vastly improve the stature of those schools (Happy) but the preceptions noted above will continue (Sad).

And oh, the school board as it stands, is likely fu**ed at the next election

The test prop is a red herring. I think there is one poster who can't let it go. Under the old system TJ was getting the gifted kids. They made US national teams in STEM. They crushed all sorts of objective measures for academic performance. It is ranked #1 two years in a row.

The school board was addressing an entirely different issue, a worthy one, the social makeup of TJ. But they chose the worst solution, pitting one racial group against another. They should have opened another school or retool an existing school instead of this zero-sum game.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm genuinely sorry to read these bitter posts. I know it's hard to be denied admission after having spent a fortune on prep.

If you have the money to push an agenda but don't have the brains to get the smart kids to applaud you for it, what better petty solution than to make being smart look like overprivileged villainy?

Or to make average appear smart by taking lots of prep as the evidence suggests when roughly a third of the entering class attended Curie.

Or to shill for a racist agenda which looks pretty on the surface, because it's too hard to believe that smart people legitimately know how to solve tough problems. "As the evidence suggests" is sometimes sadly just something someone will say to feel self-important.

And rich people know how to game a system by making their average kid appear smarter than they are by taking prep classes. This results in an average kid who is prepped ending up with a magnet seat over a kid who is genuinely gifted but lacked the same educational opportunities the wealthy kids' families provided. This is the start of a cycle that lends itself to the toxic environment which is TJ today.

I really don't know how anyone can look at the accomplishments of the student body and say TJ was getting the wrong kids. Please be honest with yourself and admit you just don't like that hard brilliant, hard working, dedicated, and extremely committed Asians students were dominating the admissions and it was simply unrealistic to do anything to counter that than lower the bar and give a boost to the demographics you wanted to favor in the admissions process. The school board never said they weren't getting gifted kids, they just felt the test was a barrier to entry for others because it was too hard and advanced for the level of schooling these students were receiving from elementary through middle school.

Yep. It was all about race. All the other nonsense from half-brained posters here was about justifying that.

At the end of the day, in the real world, no one says "You are Asian. You must have prepped. You are not "naturally" intelligent. No job for you!".

They DO say "You are Black. You must have gotten where you are through quotas. You are not intelligent. No job for you!". The focus should be on changing this. Not prolong this for a couple of more generations. Sad.

Like everyone here is saying. The "prepped" Asian kids for the most part will end up at Chantilly, Oakton, Madison, McLean or Langley and vastly improve the stature of those schools (Happy) but the preceptions noted above will continue (Sad).

And oh, the school board as it stands, is likely fu**ed at the next election

I highly doubt that about the school board.

You are wrong.. I generally never care about who I'm voting for on the school board and vote along party lines (i.e. I pick whoever the democratic party recommends). When the next election comes around, I won't have a kid in FCPS. However, I will pay a lot of attention to who I vote for. Even if choose to vote for a democrat (which I always do), the school board will NOT be these commies.

"commies"?

WTF is wrong with you?