Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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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.

DP. I honestly don't care if they changed the admissions profile of TJ students.

I do care that, in a system with over 200 schools, they spent months focusing on a single school (TJ) while ignoring everyone else, and have now committed to a time-intensive admissions process that seems certain to give rise to further litigation for years to come. And that's on this utterly incompetent and bumbling School Board, which lacks the brains or commitment to focus on the basics.

I will give generously to anyone who challenges these people, and vote against every incumbent who is stupid enough to run again. And I'm a Democrat.

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Does anyone know if the public (TJ community) can listen in to tonight's Board meeting? The one that is supposed to happen at 5pm? I looked at the Board website and don't see it listed.

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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.

Then the naturally gifted class of 2025 should do even better!

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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.

Well said!!!

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Curie had more kids admitted in the class of 2025 than any previous year!!! They had an open house yesterday for the summer session. I am shocked!

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Anonymous wrote:Curie had more kids admitted in the class of 2025 than any previous year!!! They had an open house yesterday for the summer session. I am shocked!

This isn't surprising. Curie kids are likely to have perfect GPAs and they've been trained to write perfect essays. The main thing probably holding back Curie kids who are not TJ worthy is the teacher recommendations. Those were eliminated this year.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the kids who did really well in Mathcounts, AMC, Science Olympiad and hence mentioned it in the essays got rejected. It seems they want to root out these kids in the name of equity to give opportunity to those who did not do these events.

Is this true? then should kids not mention their significant STEM achievements in their essays?

It is true.

The section of mentioning the academic events merits got eliminated along with the teachers' recommendations this year. The stats show Asian kids feel proud of their passion and achievements at those events who naively mentioned in the essay part got shushed. It also help FCPS board say class 2025 Asian kids aren't that better than others in the future. But I don't worry about those kids, they are self-driven and will continue their passion in STEM else where.

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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

It's so there's no standing for a lawsuit, narrowing the time lawyers will have to seek injunctive relief. They know the lawsuits are coming, they just want to have the greatest shot at seating the class so it's a fait accompli for any judge reviewing it. I'll bet they don't send out rejection letters until late August.

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Anonymous wrote:The new TJ wants to give all kids an opportunity to explore their science potential- the school board has been saying that for months!

Kids who are already involved in Science Olympiad have elitist parents who have been involved in their education for years- those kids will continue to excel….

Why didn't the FCPS board provide the extra resource support and help on STEM at the elementary level, especially for under-represented ethnic groups?
Pushing under-prepared kids into TJ as poster children is irresponsible, targeting TJ while ignoring the majority of the high schools is simply making a political show.
Why does budget abundant FCPS board intentionally make the high-demands STEM curriculums a scarce commodity to create the racial division?
Changing TJ admission process this way creating more problems than resolving one, the kids' demands on STEM curriculums are there, no one is able to manipulate that market.

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Anonymous wrote:The new TJ wants to give all kids an opportunity to explore their science potential- the school board has been saying that for months!

Kids who are already involved in Science Olympiad have elitist parents who have been involved in their education for years- those kids will continue to excel….

Why didn't the FCPS board provide the extra resource support and help on STEM at the elementary level, especially for under-represented ethnic groups?
Pushing under-prepared kids into TJ as poster children is irresponsible, targeting TJ while ignoring the majority of the high schools is simply making a political show.
Why does budget abundant FCPS board intentionally make the high-demands STEM curriculums a scarce commodity to create the racial division?
Changing TJ admission process this way creating more problems than resolving one, the kids' demands on STEM curriculums are there, no one is able to manipulate that market.

Evidence of this?

Or maybe you're just bitter and full of crap.

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

This was the outcome I most expected would be increased white participation.

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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.

Well said!!!

I'm fine with all that but I don't like the fact that most kids from a few schools that invest heavily in prep classes get all the seats while many bright kids whose families either can't afford or don't know to invest in prep are passed over.

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Anonymous wrote:Langston Hughes, straight 4.0 GPA in both 7 and 8th grade, all honors, geometry in 8th, URM-Black, waitlisted!

Your kid should have gotten in and might have under the old system.

Yes we are all very confused...

He is also an excellent writer so I am sure he did well on his essay.

Considering it lucky the excellent writer doesn't get into TJ, where the curriculums heavily biased on STEM and English lit is a joke.

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The point is to make admissions a crap shoot and then bully people relentlessly into saying the kids who got in are still the best and the brightest in FCPS and other jurisdictions.

Sorry, but no.

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Anonymous wrote:Curie had more kids admitted in the class of 2025 than any previous year!!! They had an open house yesterday for the summer session. I am shocked!

Why shocked?