Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The argument is that a specific prep center had the actual test that was used. It is not clear if this was the current year's test or a previous year's test, or a test made up by the center that was similar to previous year's tests.
This argument of unfairness is then stretched to cover all prep, and the proposed solution was to eliminate the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The argument is that a specific prep center had the actual test that was used. It is not clear if this was the current year's test or a previous year's test, or a test made up by the center that was similar to previous year's tests.
This argument of unfairness is then stretched to cover all prep, and the proposed solution was to eliminate the test.

All prep except the free prep classes offered by Fairfax of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The argument is that a specific prep center had the actual test that was used. It is not clear if this was the current year's test or a previous year's test, or a test made up by the center that was similar to previous year's tests.
This argument of unfairness is then stretched to cover all prep, and the proposed solution was to eliminate the test.

All prep except the free prep classes offered by Fairfax of course.

You mean school? Clearly that isn't sufficient. THat's why people pay thousands to Curie and places like it.

[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.

Yeah, not enough Asians in

[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.

[Anonymous]

Good to see that the waitlisted kids from our AAP center are getting excited about going to their base high school…the TJ disappointment is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ya a few years from the stats will bear this out.

[Anonymous]

Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

Agree. Anecdotally, I am hearing from kids at our base magnet school that quite a few of them are enrolled in private summer courses already this month

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

Thta's amazing. Especially since they seem to have not read any of the essays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

If by "less talented and more prepped" you mean the smart kids who were more advanced in math, how do you explain that in our magnet school where prepping is rare (and hence we usually get 12-20 kids in every year) the advanced 8th graders in Algebra 2 always outperform the 9th and 10th graders who, by your definition, have more "talent"? Nearly all the kids at our school are busy with sports and clubs to be doing prepping. Some kids are smarter than others. You must have a really big chip on your shoulder from whatever envy you experienced as a teen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

Where did you read that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait-listed kids have already pivoted to optimize their current path. I'd imagine that the crop of very advanced kids who were denied TJ Admissions will find opportunities elsewhere for further enrichment while enjoying the amenities of their base high schools.

I hope the TJ Class of 2025 make the most of their opportunities as well.

It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

Where did you read that?

on this forum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It should be a very strong class. I read they eliminated many of the over-prepped but less talented students who typically have trouble keeping up.

Where did you read that?

on this forum

After she posted it here for the 10,000th time.