Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

[Anonymous]

Which school and how do you know?

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

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Anonymous wrote:Fact is. Alg2 in 8th grade is standard for many private prep schools that feed into the very good universities. If TJ gets watered down, we essentially have no FCPS school that will be comparable tp some of these preps

There are schools that actually prep kids so much they are called prep schools? Wow.

TJ is a college prep. Every FCPS HS claims to be a college prep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

This is similar to that amateur athletes try to compete with professional in sports based on their raw talent. But it is good to have a dream :wink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

I might have believed that if they didn't have a per school quota.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

I might have believed that if they didn't have a per school quota.

That seems like a good thing to me. I believe the top 1.5% at any school is capable of doing the work at TJ and this helps include kids from lower income schools who are just as bright but may not be as prepped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

Evidence? Links? Or is this just what you wish would be the strongest class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

Hahahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

I might have believed that if they didn't have a per school quota.

That seems like a good thing to me. I believe the top 1.5% at any school is capable of doing the work at TJ and this helps include kids from lower income schools who are just as bright but may not be as prepped.

They didn’t differentiate centers from base schools and evaluated applicants based on their attending school, not their base school. If they were trying to capture kids from all geographic areas, they would have done it by base school.

[Anonymous]

There are many students at TJ who didn’t prep to get in. People on here keep reciting the statement that TJ kids orep and buy admission as fact. It’s insulting, offensive and untrue.

[Anonymous]

The whole prepping claim is so stupid. I honestly don't care about TJ and I don't plan to have my kids apply, but my kids are gifted (all three > 145 IQ). Yes you can prep some tests but do you really think the same is not true of grades in school? The kids who get the best grades are not necessarily the smartest kids but the ones who put more time in studying and doing homework at night. There are multiple families living on my block who FORCE their kids to do nothing but study and homework ALL AFTERNOON AND EVENING after school EVERY DAY. If those kids don't end up with a 4.0 then I don't know wtf they are doing. Tell me, who is smarter - a kid who gets an A- and studies only 20 minutes per night, or a kid who gets an A+ and studies 7 hours per night? You do the math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why still bother going to TJ? Starting this year, TJ is not the same school as before. FCPS didn’t admit the real top 1.5% top students from middle schools and they just gave offers to bunch of ordinary students as their so-called 1.5% students. All real top 1.5% top students from our middle school were waitlisted. The admission committee sucks and I doubt they did it on purpose.

When I was in school there was a program where schools could nominate the top 2. The principal frequently went lower on the list for nominations, figure the top students would get in without an automatic spot.

Based on what I've read and know from our school, it seems like this will be the strongest TJ class in decades. In past years many students were able to falsely pass themselves off as gifted from years of prep but these changes have made a dent in that and also given kids with actual talent whose families can't afford prep classes a fighting chance.

Lol, all the kids from our middle school who got offers this year didn’t solve the math essay problem correctly. You think it’s strongest class? You’re dumb!

[Anonymous]

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”

― Albert Einstein

Apparently some people are smarter than Einstein and figured than talent alone is sufficient to succeed.

[Anonymous]

How do people know which kids answered the essay correctly? This is not public info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many students at TJ who didn’t prep to get in. People on here keep reciting the statement that TJ kids orep and buy admission as fact. It’s insulting, offensive and untrue.

And insofar as it is true, it isn't necessarily a sign of a privileged family that's paying their way in, but in many cases a family that prioritizes their spending on education and wants to make sure they have all their bases covered. For this reason, if we assume that the effect of prep on admission is minimal, we'd still expect a correlation between use of prep centers and kids who got in, which makes the whole "prep" argument seem ignorant.