Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

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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.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe but it still makes a lot more sense than believing that wealthy kids who took years of prep to give the illusion of being advanced and have trouble keeping up are somehow better candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe but it still makes a lot more sense than believing that wealthy kids who took years of prep to give the illusion of being advanced and have trouble keeping up are somehow better candidates.

There really aren’t that many wealthy prep kids who were getting admitted to TJ but then struggling to keep up. It’s only a thing in your imagination. The new system is effectively a lottery among above average kids who are good students. It might reduce the number of overly prepped kids, but it’s also reducing the highly gifted overachievers who truly belong at TJ in favor of genetically bright kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Lol

Do you know where she got that information from? From her own post # 1!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Good luck!! The kids do better at base schools...

[Anonymous]

(not Asian) parent of a (not prepped) recent TJ alum. And a kid who didn’t get in. And there is so the thing the woman who can’t seem to quit yelling prepped is missing. All that “preps? It’s advanced math classes mainly. And a lot of hard work.

Now, what the number one reason kids drop back to base school? It’s not that they can’t do the work prep lady. It’s that they don’t want to and are miserable.

Not having the aptitude or willingness to stretch themselves to take Geometry in 8th is a bad sign. I’m not sure why the anti-prepping lady is so certain that they kids will be amazing. This far, they have shown no willingness to go above an beyond.

And even if they are super geniuses and the current TJ students are not, 95% of succeeding at TJ once you hit about a 140 IQ is doing a lot of hard work.

And if your fix is for TJ teachers to give less hard work, why exactly bus kids to TJ?

TJ was a privilege. You worked hard and earned it. Then you worked hard and earned a diploma. Or you didn’t work hard and left. And that diploma felt like an amazing accomplishment to my kid. All the money in the world can’t buy admissions a degree. Pure race-blind, gender-blind everything else blind meritocracy. It’s a shame that’s been destroyed.

Doesn’t hurt my kid. He knows he earned his spot and his diploma. The current class? They won’t get the feeling that comes with pushing yourself and earning a spot and earning a diploma. They will always know they got their by being the right gender, race, SES.

[Anonymous]

^That’s the main thing anti prepping lady doesn’t seem to grasp. The majority of kids who take algebra in 7th didn’t prep at all, and instead grasped all of the math pretty easily just in regular school. The overwhelming majority of 8th grade Algebra kids are not particularly good at math and/or not motivated enough to take the more challenging class. There is no reason at all to expect them to blossom at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(not Asian) parent of a (not prepped) recent TJ alum. And a kid who didn’t get in. And there is so the thing the woman who can’t seem to quit yelling prepped is missing. All that “preps? It’s advanced math classes mainly. And a lot of hard work.

Now, what the number one reason kids drop back to base school? It’s not that they can’t do the work prep lady. It’s that they don’t want to and are miserable.

Not having the aptitude or willingness to stretch themselves to take Geometry in 8th is a bad sign. I’m not sure why the anti-prepping lady is so certain that they kids will be amazing. This far, they have shown no willingness to go above an beyond.

And even if they are super geniuses and the current TJ students are not, 95% of succeeding at TJ once you hit about a 140 IQ is doing a lot of hard work.

And if your fix is for TJ teachers to give less hard work, why exactly bus kids to TJ?

TJ was a privilege. You worked hard and earned it. Then you worked hard and earned a diploma. Or you didn’t work hard and left. And that diploma felt like an amazing accomplishment to my kid. All the money in the world can’t buy admissions a degree. Pure race-blind, gender-blind everything else blind meritocracy. It’s a shame that’s been destroyed.

Doesn’t hurt my kid. He knows he earned his spot and his diploma. The current class? They won’t get the feeling that comes with pushing yourself and earning a spot and earning a diploma. They will always know they got their by being the right gender, race, SES.

I don't think anyone is against kids pushing themselves or taking advanced classes, but buying the test is another matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(not Asian) parent of a (not prepped) recent TJ alum. And a kid who didn’t get in. And there is so the thing the woman who can’t seem to quit yelling prepped is missing. All that “preps? It’s advanced math classes mainly. And a lot of hard work.

Now, what the number one reason kids drop back to base school? It’s not that they can’t do the work prep lady. It’s that they don’t want to and are miserable.

Not having the aptitude or willingness to stretch themselves to take Geometry in 8th is a bad sign. I’m not sure why the anti-prepping lady is so certain that they kids will be amazing. This far, they have shown no willingness to go above an beyond.

And even if they are super geniuses and the current TJ students are not, 95% of succeeding at TJ once you hit about a 140 IQ is doing a lot of hard work.

And if your fix is for TJ teachers to give less hard work, why exactly bus kids to TJ?

TJ was a privilege. You worked hard and earned it. Then you worked hard and earned a diploma. Or you didn’t work hard and left. And that diploma felt like an amazing accomplishment to my kid. All the money in the world can’t buy admissions a degree. Pure race-blind, gender-blind everything else blind meritocracy. It’s a shame that’s been destroyed.

Doesn’t hurt my kid. He knows he earned his spot and his diploma. The current class? They won’t get the feeling that comes with pushing yourself and earning a spot and earning a diploma. They will always know they got their by being the right gender, race, SES.

I don't think anyone is against kids pushing themselves or taking advanced classes, but buying the test is another matter.

DP. You keep bringing this up without any proof. Why not go to the cops or FBI or whoever? Throw those people in jail (kids included). Until I see something like that I call BS.

[Anonymous]

TJ is garbage now. Just an excuse for a bunch of second-rate politicians on the School Board to brag about the pork they brought home to the Lee, Mason, Mount Vernon, and Springfield districts. Too bad your pork is spoiling before it hits the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ is garbage now. Just an excuse for a bunch of second-rate politicians on the School Board to brag about the pork they brought home to the Lee, Mason, Mount Vernon, and Springfield districts. Too bad your pork is spoiling before it hits the table.

This also improves the high schools that least need improvement. My kid is Chantilly, which is the base school for 50ish TJ kids a year. If 40 don’t go now, that’s the new top 5% of the class. Ditto McLean, Oakton and Langley. These school ultimately benefit from retaining top students. Meanwhile, the schools already lacking top kids will get even fewer.

I predict a huge divergence between Western County and Eastern County HSs in the next 5 years (or, even more divergence than there was before).

Meanwhile the SB does nothing about The Eastern County IB programs that families are running away from.

As someone who lives in a Neighborhood zoned for Chantilly, it’s already shocking how much demand there is for homes here. We have neighbors on our HOA page begging people to give them a heads up before they list homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe but it still makes a lot more sense than believing that wealthy kids who took years of prep to give the illusion of being advanced and have trouble keeping up are somehow better candidates.

There really aren’t that many wealthy prep kids who were getting admitted to TJ but then struggling to keep up. It’s only a thing in your imagination. The new system is effectively a lottery among above average kids who are good students. It might reduce the number of overly prepped kids, but it’s also reducing the highly gifted overachievers who truly belong at TJ in favor of genetically bright kids.

That contradicts the 10,000 posts I've read here saying otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ is garbage now. Just an excuse for a bunch of second-rate politicians on the School Board to brag about the pork they brought home to the Lee, Mason, Mount Vernon, and Springfield districts. Too bad your pork is spoiling before it hits the table.

That makes no sense. It sounds like the new criteria will result in a stronger cohort by favoring aptitude over prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe but it still makes a lot more sense than believing that wealthy kids who took years of prep to give the illusion of being advanced and have trouble keeping up are somehow better candidates.

There really aren’t that many wealthy prep kids who were getting admitted to TJ but then struggling to keep up. It’s only a thing in your imagination. The new system is effectively a lottery among above average kids who are good students. It might reduce the number of overly prepped kids, but it’s also reducing the highly gifted overachievers who truly belong at TJ in favor of genetically bright kids.

It actually is a thing. My child graduated from TJ a few years ago. He knew more than a few kids who only managed to stay at TJ because they had tutoring in many of their classes after school at least three days a week, sometimes more. Also, a lot of kids would take classes elsewhere in the summer before they were scheduled to take them at TJ, so on the first day of class in September they had essentially already covered all the material. Then, they still needed ongoing tutoring to keep up with the class.

Some of these kids almost didn’t believe my kid when he said that he didn’t have any extra tutoring at all, and instead engaged in sports every day after school. They were actually surprised anyone could make it at TJ without hours of extra help/tutoring every week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ is garbage now. Just an excuse for a bunch of second-rate politicians on the School Board to brag about the pork they brought home to the Lee, Mason, Mount Vernon, and Springfield districts. Too bad your pork is spoiling before it hits the table.

That makes no sense. It sounds like the new criteria will result in a stronger cohort by favoring aptitude over prep.

What is this aptitude you speak of and how is it measured. How do you know that your 4.0 kid (with some classes Gen Ed) and only has Algebra 1, plus no STEM activities has STEM aptitude? There are zero objective measurements for this class.