Longfellow SO Golden Ticket to TJ - is this true?

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Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

My son was in Longfellow SO and got into TJ. Interesting thing I learnt was that there are some kids who don't even want to apply to TJ for various reasons. In addition, not everybody that applies from SO team gets in. What I have noticed is kids from these top schools handle the TJ course load much better than some kids from other schools who are in now due to the 1.5%. Longfellow SO team makes you work really really hard so you would have learnt time management and makes it easier in TJ. Going to TJ makes College transition easier too and I know kids who graduated from MIT in 3 years.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your experience?

I’ve heard that especially for girls, all the female SO at Longfellow were accepted to TJ.

My son was in Longfellow SO Last year and made it to TJ. FCPS has no data if the child did SO so they have to include as relevant in SPS questions.

Longfellow had 40 to TJ which was about 5-6%. About 60 went from Carson

Getting into TJ Longfellow is very very competitive

If there is no data, his can they prove it? Anyone can claim to be in those hyper competitive teams?

You don’t have to prove anything. All comes down to what you write in the SPS response. They believe kids at that age are telling the truth.
Now everyone is moving towards quality writing both TJ and colleges for admission. If they can’t write, best research goes waste

Except high school is where a lot of this writing is taught.
Looking for the top STEM students by selecting for best ability to write an essay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Seats are restricted. You can’t be in Mathcounts and another club at the same time. Same for SO and Debate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Seats are restricted. You can’t be in Mathcounts and another club at the same time. Same for SO and Debate.

At Longfellow you cannot be in SO and other activities. You will get kicked out. If you are in SO team, you are committed to it. Last year Longfellow came 5th nationally for the first time. It is lot of work and lot to learn

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

My son was in Longfellow SO and got into TJ. Interesting thing I learnt was that there are some kids who don't even want to apply to TJ for various reasons. In addition, not everybody that applies from SO team gets in. What I have noticed is kids from these top schools handle the TJ course load much better than some kids from other schools who are in now due to the 1.5%. Longfellow SO team makes you work really really hard so you would have learnt time management and makes it easier in TJ. Going to TJ makes College transition easier too and I know kids who graduated from MIT in 3 years.

When my nephew was there over a decade ago, his mom made him take the test but he turned it down. He said he wasn't comfortable going there as a URM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Who are the other 3 from Virginia? From Rachel Carson maybe?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Who are the other 3 from Virginia? From Rachel Carson maybe?

Different schools.

The schools of top 17 were
LF, Cooper, Eagle Ridge, Rachel Carson, Old Donation, Blacksburg, ER, RC, Frost, LF, LF, LF, Stone Hill, Katherine Johnson, ER, Nysmith, South County

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

My son was in Longfellow SO and got into TJ. Interesting thing I learnt was that there are some kids who don't even want to apply to TJ for various reasons. In addition, not everybody that applies from SO team gets in. What I have noticed is kids from these top schools handle the TJ course load much better than some kids from other schools who are in now due to the 1.5%. Longfellow SO team makes you work really really hard so you would have learnt time management and makes it easier in TJ. Going to TJ makes College transition easier too and I know kids who graduated from MIT in 3 years.

When my nephew was there over a decade ago, his mom made him take the test but he turned it down. He said he wasn't comfortable going there as a URM.

Because of the brainwashing you all had done to him.

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The schools of top 17 were
LF, Cooper, Eagle Ridge, Rachel Carson, Old Donation, Blacksburg, ER, RC, Frost, LF, LF, LF, Stone Hill, Katherine Johnson, ER, Nysmith, South County

Thanks for this. I see there's no elementary school kids this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Who are the other 3 from Virginia? From Rachel Carson maybe?

Different schools.

The schools of top 17 were
LF, Cooper, Eagle Ridge, Rachel Carson, Old Donation, Blacksburg, ER, RC, Frost, LF, LF, LF, Stone Hill, Katherine Johnson, ER, Nysmith, South County

Interesting that Longfellow and Carson continue to outperform Cooper even though Cooper is wealthier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Who are the other 3 from Virginia? From Rachel Carson maybe?

Different schools.

The schools of top 17 were
LF, Cooper, Eagle Ridge, Rachel Carson, Old Donation, Blacksburg, ER, RC, Frost, LF, LF, LF, Stone Hill, Katherine Johnson, ER, Nysmith, South County

Longfellow has historically dominated Mathcounts, except for a couple of years where there were a handful math prodigies at Basis. I think they have a system to produce good mathcounts results

Interesting that Longfellow and Carson continue to outperform Cooper even though Cooper is wealthier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longfellow won both the VA Regional Middle School Science Bowl and the state Math Counts competition over the weekend. Wonder if all those kids and not just the girls will end up at TJ.

Do you have the results of both? Who's representing VA at Nationals?

One student from Longfellow is going to national mathcounts, with the other students placing 10th, 11th, 12th.
The school may have had more students competing at state.

Who are the other 3 from Virginia? From Rachel Carson maybe?

Different schools.

The schools of top 17 were
LF, Cooper, Eagle Ridge, Rachel Carson, Old Donation, Blacksburg, ER, RC, Frost, LF, LF, LF, Stone Hill, Katherine Johnson, ER, Nysmith, South County

Interesting that Longfellow and Carson continue to outperform Cooper even though Cooper is wealthier.

I'm not sure I'd use the term outperform. It likely is more of a function of demographics differences, cultural values and priorities.

[Anonymous]

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Interesting that Longfellow and Carson continue to outperform Cooper even though Cooper is wealthier.

Longfellow has historically dominated Mathcounts, except for a couple of years where there were a handful math prodigies at Basis. I think they have a system to produce good mathcounts results

[Anonymous]

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Interesting that Longfellow and Carson continue to outperform Cooper even though Cooper is wealthier.

Longfellow has historically dominated Mathcounts, except for a couple of years where there were a handful math prodigies at Basis. I think they have a system to produce good mathcounts results

The common thread was Vern Williams. He's at Nysmith now, if memory serves.