Estimated class rank of weighted 4.22 GPA for 9th grade

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone estimate the class rank of weighted 4.22 GPA for my 9th grade kid? middle or bottom? My kid's all 9th courses' grade is between A and minus A. Thanks for reply!

Slightly above middle. It's a guess, but there would be atleast one to two hundred freshman kids in the 4.2 to 4.4 range.

Freshman courses have been intentionally kept easy to discourage dropouts. However, the following two years are filled with unavoidable TJ rigor courses, likely leading to a much wider GPA distribution. The midpoint gpa after junior year in the past has been around 4.4

Appreciated so much for reply!

My kid took the math 3 and math 4 and AP statistic this year. For math 3 and RS1, my kid got A easily. But for math 4 and RS2 , due to the TJ math pace was too fast, and RS2 exams are far harder than RS1. So my kid only got minus A on these two math courses.

How can your kid take RS1, RS2, Math 3, Math 4 and AP Stat in Freshman year?

I think RS 1&2 = AP stat

I have been told that it is not uncommon for students to take RS1/2 and Math 3/4 freshman year.

Significant portion of the TJ class doubles up on math, either math 3&4 or math 4&5. A significant number that finish math 4, enroll in the only summer math 5. Any of these options can be challenging to manage, unless student has developed solid math fluency during their earlier years.

I have a son starting TJ in the fall and he took geometry in 8th grade and I was told that freshman year was RS1 in the Fall and Math 3 in the Spring.
How common is it to take Math 3 Fall and Math 4 Spring?
I have to admit we are a little apprehensive about the level of "rigor" at TJ and don't want him to get overwhelmed.
He is strong in math (he is a strong student generally) but not what you would call passionate about math. He has no real interest in math or science competitions and seems more interested in the fact that he has a good shot at the sports teams he is interested in.
A recent grad suggested that he follow this 3/4 (+5 in the summer) pathway to open up electives earlier and another alumni said he shouldn't rush it.

BTW RS2 sounds like it is undervalued by the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone estimate the class rank of weighted 4.22 GPA for my 9th grade kid? middle or bottom? My kid's all 9th courses' grade is between A and minus A. Thanks for reply!

Slightly above middle. It's a guess, but there would be atleast one to two hundred freshman kids in the 4.2 to 4.4 range.

Freshman courses have been intentionally kept easy to discourage dropouts. However, the following two years are filled with unavoidable TJ rigor courses, likely leading to a much wider GPA distribution. The midpoint gpa after junior year in the past has been around 4.4

Appreciated so much for reply!

My kid took the math 3 and math 4 and AP statistic this year. For math 3 and RS1, my kid got A easily. But for math 4 and RS2 , due to the TJ math pace was too fast, and RS2 exams are far harder than RS1. So my kid only got minus A on these two math courses.

How can your kid take RS1, RS2, Math 3, Math 4 and AP Stat in Freshman year?

I think RS 1&2 = AP stat

I have been told that it is not uncommon for students to take RS1/2 and Math 3/4 freshman year.

Significant portion of the TJ class doubles up on math, either math 3&4 or math 4&5. A significant number that finish math 4, enroll in the only summer math 5. Any of these options can be challenging to manage, unless student has developed solid math fluency during their earlier years.

I have a son starting TJ in the fall and he took geometry in 8th grade and I was told that freshman year was RS1 in the Fall and Math 3 in the Spring.
How common is it to take Math 3 Fall and Math 4 Spring?
I have to admit we are a little apprehensive about the level of "rigor" at TJ and don't want him to get overwhelmed.
He is strong in math (he is a strong student generally) but not what you would call passionate about math. He has no real interest in math or science competitions and seems more interested in the fact that he has a good shot at the sports teams he is interested in.
A recent grad suggested that he follow this 3/4 (+5 in the summer) pathway to open up electives earlier and another alumni said he shouldn't rush it.

BTW RS2 sounds like it is undervalued by the school.

Never mind.
I don't think doubling up on math as a freshman is common anymore. When did they sed to do this?
It seemed like kids that took geometry in 8th grade were automatically slotted into RS1 in the Fall and Math 3 in the Spring.
You get 2 electives, and one of them is for a foreign language.

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Only the math savvy students double up on math in freshman/sophomore, or finish Math 5 in summer before sophomore, mostly the top quarter of the class.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone estimate the class rank of weighted 4.22 GPA for my 9th grade kid? middle or bottom? My kid's all 9th courses' grade is between A and minus A. Thanks for reply!

Slightly above middle. It's a guess, but there would be atleast one to two hundred freshman kids in the 4.2 to 4.4 range.

Freshman courses have been intentionally kept easy to discourage dropouts. However, the following two years are filled with unavoidable TJ rigor courses, likely leading to a much wider GPA distribution. The midpoint gpa after junior year in the past has been around 4.4

Appreciated so much for reply!

My kid took the math 3 and math 4 and AP statistic this year. For math 3 and RS1, my kid got A easily. But for math 4 and RS2 , due to the TJ math pace was too fast, and RS2 exams are far harder than RS1. So my kid only got minus A on these two math courses.

How can your kid take RS1, RS2, Math 3, Math 4 and AP Stat in Freshman year?

I think RS 1&2 = AP stat

I have been told that it is not uncommon for students to take RS1/2 and Math 3/4 freshman year.

Significant portion of the TJ class doubles up on math, either math 3&4 or math 4&5. A significant number that finish math 4, enroll in the only summer math 5. Any of these options can be challenging to manage, unless student has developed solid math fluency during their earlier years.

I have a son starting TJ in the fall and he took geometry in 8th grade and I was told that freshman year was RS1 in the Fall and Math 3 in the Spring.
How common is it to take Math 3 Fall and Math 4 Spring?
I have to admit we are a little apprehensive about the level of "rigor" at TJ and don't want him to get overwhelmed.
He is strong in math (he is a strong student generally) but not what you would call passionate about math. He has no real interest in math or science competitions and seems more interested in the fact that he has a good shot at the sports teams he is interested in.
A recent grad suggested that he follow this 3/4 (+5 in the summer) pathway to open up electives earlier and another alumni said he shouldn't rush it.

BTW RS2 sounds like it is undervalued by the school.

A little more than a third of students from each class participate in a sport, but prioritize academics alongside, not at it sacrifice. Unlike at base school where algebra 2 is sufficient for graduation, TJ requires calculus as a minimum to graduate. Most take atleast two levels past the minimum calc AB.

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Anonymous wrote:Only the math savvy students double up on math in freshman/sophomore, or finish Math 5 in summer before sophomore, mostly the top quarter of the class.

I was under the impression that this wasn't even an option.

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Anonymous wrote:Unlike fcps students, lcps students are at a disadvantage as even the honors course credits are transferred as unweighted. unfair and discriminatory practice.

Wrong. LCPS kids are compared against other LCPS kids, plus this info is included in the school profile. Some school systems give a one point boost for a 97-100 as an A+, so an AP class is a 6.0. Fcps kids could say that is not fair but one one is comparing those kids with the 6.0 kids.

You're misinformed. The reference is about loudoun county TJ students whose lcps middle school earned HS credits that get automatically transferred to fcps, but as unweighted.

My Kid went to Longfellow where ALL classes are Honors. There were no 0.5 bumps

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You have to take RS 1 in fall and then, if you come in with geometry you have to take math 3 in spring. Pretty sure you can’t take 3 in fall and 4 in spring. Maybe you used to be able to do that. Or maybe you can get special permission. But I’m not aware of any kids sound that.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to take RS 1 in fall and then, if you come in with geometry you have to take math 3 in spring. Pretty sure you can’t take 3 in fall and 4 in spring. Maybe you used to be able to do that. Or maybe you can get special permission. But I’m not aware of any kids sound that.

Thanks.

It's hard to figure out what's going on.
Everyone seems so sensitive about TJ it's hard to discuss publicly.

[Anonymous]

You need talk to your kids counselor about taking math3 and RS1 in fall and then take math 4 and another semenster course in the spring. Usually the counselor will tell you it will be very challenge if to do so. but if you insist to take double math in freshmen , counselor will agree and change your kids old class schedule to new class schedule with double math in 9th grade. If do so, your kids will lost weekend and holiday time, except your kids is a true genius in math.

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The best time for taking math 4 is in fall, not in spring, because there is more holidays to study and prepare for the final exam in fall.

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Remember the pace of JT math is very fast. The unit exams and final exam are very hard.

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Anonymous wrote:You need talk to your kids counselor about taking math3 and RS1 in fall and then take math 4 and another semenster course in the spring. Usually the counselor will tell you it will be very challenge if to do so. but if you insist to take double math in freshmen , counselor will agree and change your kids old class schedule to new class schedule with double math in 9th grade. If do so, your kids will lost weekend and holiday time, except your kids is a true genius in math.

is Math 3 offered in fall?

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Anonymous wrote:The best time for taking math 4 is in fall, not in spring, because there is more holidays to study and prepare for the final exam in fall.

This is a good strategy, as students struggle more with math 4 than math 5.

[Anonymous]

This is TJ, the best high school in VA. So it offers math 3, math4, and math 5 every fall and every spring! Of course, it also offers other semenster courses in every fall and spring.