When do we hear about TJ admission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

The rejection of merit-based admissions is being done to place Lee, Mason, and Mount Vernon. Lots of folks in Braddock, Providence, and Springfield aren't happy, either. At some point people will decide whether they want county policy decided by three magisterial districts and the nutcase at-large SJWs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

The rejection of merit-based admissions is being done to place Lee, Mason, and Mount Vernon. Lots of folks in Braddock, Providence, and Springfield aren't happy, either. At some point people will decide whether they want county policy decided by three magisterial districts and the nutcase at-large SJWs.

*whispers* standardized exams don't measure merit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

The rejection of merit-based admissions is being done to place Lee, Mason, and Mount Vernon. Lots of folks in Braddock, Providence, and Springfield aren't happy, either. At some point people will decide whether they want county policy decided by three magisterial districts and the nutcase at-large SJWs.

*whispers* standardized exams don't measure merit

They do a whole lot better job than racial preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

There is a lot more information discoverable pursuant to a FOIA request or subpoena than you seem to realize.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

The rejection of merit-based admissions is being done to place Lee, Mason, and Mount Vernon. Lots of folks in Braddock, Providence, and Springfield aren't happy, either. At some point people will decide whether they want county policy decided by three magisterial districts and the nutcase at-large SJWs.

*whispers* standardized exams don't measure merit

They do a whole lot better job than racial preferences.

+1. The new system of explicit geographic quotas and soft racial quotas will be a bear to administer during the admissions process and then greatly diminish TJ’s reputation in short order.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Families who also applied to private are totally screwed, as tuition contracts are due June 1.

Yep. They will be out a full year of tuition if they elect to take a TJ spot.

This is why I suspect they will do everything they can to release decisions on Friday, May 28 at 4 PM.

That seems highly unlikely when their email to families said "mid to late June."

Every normal year they quote April 30 as the deadline for releasing decisions and every year they're finished up in late March.

They want to yield as many kids as possible of the ones they select so that they don't have to dig down the list. They know about the June 1 deadline for private school contracts and it will look terrible for them if tons of families turn TJ away.

Pretty confident in my prediction.

Yes, but in past years, they had already cut the applicant pool down considerably to semifinalists way before April 30, plus they had standardized test scores and teacher recommendations. All of those factors made the decision making easier than it is this year with the "holistic" approach and no semifinalists (so way more applications to go through).

[Anonymous]

Do they really publish data on their yield? It's hard for me to believe that it would look bad for them if families turn them down.

[Anonymous]

PP, this is a public school and they don’t really care about “yield”. They know they will be able to fill the class and couldn’t care less if a chunk of the kids stay with private over TJ. They have a rolling waitlist and can just keep going down the list.

They said mid-June, so I would believe them.

[Anonymous]

A ton of the class of 2025 will be lottery anyway, so the seats are completely interchangeable in that regard.

[Anonymous]

I think they are say mid June as they will begin offering the top students first (late May) and then move down the list so it will take time to hear if you are one of the last ones to get an offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they are say mid June as they will begin offering the top students first (late May) and then move down the list so it will take time to hear if you are one of the last ones to get an offer.

This would make sense. They accept the kids in the top whatever percentage, then they go through the other finalists, then they handle wait list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, this is a public school and they don’t really care about “yield”. They know they will be able to fill the class and couldn’t care less if a chunk of the kids stay with private over TJ. They have a rolling waitlist and can just keep going down the list.

They said mid-June, so I would believe them.

They absolutely care about their yield. It will not be published, but they are evaluating these kids and selecting the ones that they want for the incoming class, and just like any other school they do not want to have to move further down that list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A ton of the class of 2025 will be lottery anyway, so the seats are completely interchangeable in that regard.

This is false - they dispensed with the lottery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will need lawyers vetting every admissions decision that gets made as a lawsuit is inevitable. Of course it will take forever. These idiots broke something that didn't need to be fixed and in the process have made sure everyone else gets inconvenienced as well. Cannot wait to vote this idiotic School Board OUT.

2 things:

1) Lawsuits won't go anywhere on an individual basis. Private and public schools have a compelling interest in the privacy of the admissions process. There already exist lawsuits challenging the validity of the process, but they have failed to secure injunctive relief and will not be able to rescind decisions once rendered. This is another reason that the TJ admissions office will do everything they can to release before June 1 - once those decisions are out, it would be a monumental task to reverse them.

2) Most of the parents who are put out by all of this reside in two districts - Dranesville and Sully. Maybe a few in Hunter Mill. And a whole hell of a lot live in Loudoun and are irrelevant to this process. So unless you're planning to sweep those and the at-large districts plus pick up one more seat somewhere, you're not getting anywhere with reversing the current TJ admissions trend.

There is a lot more information discoverable pursuant to a FOIA request or subpoena than you seem to realize.

If that were true, it would have been done for generations already. You'd be living under a rock to believe that TJ admissions JUST became a hot-button issue. Parents may be able to have access to their own child's data and evaluations (and that's a big may) but there is no way on earth they would be granted access to anyone else's.