TJ admissions results out?

[Anonymous]

They typically sent out the notifications on Fridays. Looks like thats not the case this year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is taking so long? The admission results should have been ready to go before the delay. Haven’t these kids been through enough?

Someone should call the office and ask what’s going on…. If it was coming tomorrow, we should have received email already about it. I am sure they are going to drag it till next weekend.

The Admissions Office historically (before last year) does not send an e-mail indicating exactly when admissions offers will be released. This is so that they don't back themselves into a corner in case something goes awry in the final stages.

It is very possible decisions will be released tomorrow afternoon/evening.

From what I have heard, they send out email about the results day every year. Any previous parents, please chime in. Thanks

the last two cycles have been weird, and not at all what was done previously.

I would not be surprised if emails were sent out during the weekend. I mean, why not?

[Anonymous]

TJ has its freshman sports preview night on 6/1 so looks like decisions will at least be out on May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ has its freshman sports preview night on 6/1 so looks like decisions will at least be out on May.

Would be quite surprised if it were not this Friday.

[Anonymous]

How would they deal with cheating or not at all for the online admissions testing?

[Anonymous]

Received an email saying the result will be out on 5/20/2022 after 6pm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would stop complaining. Class of 2025 didn’t get results til after school was out in June.

So what? It doesn’t mean that it’s right to drag out admissions this long. Every other charter school, college, etc. has admissions results out already.

Thank the Coalition for their lawsuit. The Admissions Office lost over a month between the original stop order and the eventual stay motion.

There is no end to what the Coalition will do to try to damage the school as long as they're not getting what they want - which is the ability for parents to use their resources to put their thumbs on the scale of the TJ admissions process. And, as a side benefit, to not have to send their children to school with Black kids, whom they are openly fearful of when talking to their own kids.

Couldn't have said this any better. They are going to try to burn the whole place down. It's so important that next year, half of the school will have been selected by the new process instead of just a quarter.

You say that like it will establish an equilibrium between the warring factions at TJ, but it will simply ensure the school is sharply divided.

And it's ironic that you'd use inflammatory rhetoric to attack those trying to preserve what they saw as a merit-based process when the current School Board could just as readily be accused of doing its utmost to tear the place apart by favoring students with "experience factors" that are a soft proxy for race and lower SES.

[Anonymous]

The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

There are several experience factors considered. They just got rid of one of them. Others include whether student is economically disadvantaged, whether students are English language learners, or whether students require special education. There may be more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

It means that they are adjusting the process to remove anything that could be considered racial as a measure in order to make it harder for the new admissions method to be overruled by the Courts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

One of the "experience factors" taken into consideration as part of the new admissions process was whether a student attended a historically underrepresented school, i.e. a school which generally sends very few students to TJ (they had provided a list of which schools those were.) Effective this round of admissions, that factor is no longer being considered. the email seems to suggest that the purpose of the factor was to promote school diversity and that it is unnecessary (presumably because every school is allocated seats for 1.5% of its 8th graders - although that was always part of the process, and thus the HUS factor was thus always redundant by that reasoning).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

One of the "experience factors" taken into consideration as part of the new admissions process was whether a student attended a historically underrepresented school, i.e. a school which generally sends very few students to TJ (they had provided a list of which schools those were.) Effective this round of admissions, that factor is no longer being considered. the email seems to suggest that the purpose of the factor was to promote school diversity and that it is unnecessary (presumably because every school is allocated seats for 1.5% of its 8th graders - although that was always part of the process, and thus the HUS factor was thus always redundant by that reasoning).

Do we know how many kids from each middle school applied? It would seem that if every school gets 1.5% of applicants a slot then the top 6-8 from every middle school get in? Is that right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity. http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf

What exactly does this mean?

One of the "experience factors" taken into consideration as part of the new admissions process was whether a student attended a historically underrepresented school, i.e. a school which generally sends very few students to TJ (they had provided a list of which schools those were.) Effective this round of admissions, that factor is no longer being considered. the email seems to suggest that the purpose of the factor was to promote school diversity and that it is unnecessary (presumably because every school is allocated seats for 1.5% of its 8th graders - although that was always part of the process, and thus the HUS factor was thus always redundant by that reasoning).

Do we know how many kids from each middle school applied? It would seem that if every school gets 1.5% of applicants a slot then the top 6-8 from every middle school get in? Is that right?

Correct, if there are 6-8 that meet the requirements, which there probably are.

[Anonymous]

So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?