Who is on the TJ Posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ parent here.
We're here for the sports.

I am also from a feeder school and I also like TJ. I like the students, I like the program, I like the environment. But I can't help but feel bad for those kids that should have made it based on merit but did not. If you are coming from a feeder then you know at least one kid that deserved to get in over one of the kids that actually did get in.

I don't like the way they changed the process and if you're OK with it, that's fine but it was in fact about race.

I think we could use more TJs. If we are going to dilute the admissions standards, we should stop pretending that it's exclusive or selective and just expand the program to accommodate all interested students that meet those standards.

Now you make me feels bad. We are from big feeder and maybe that is my child you meant who did not deserve, but my child happy and thriving at TJ.
I hope that kid sill do well at base school, or even better.

PP here. It might be my kid for all I know but I also know a kid that was pretty excited about going to TJ and by all measures he was among the top 2 or 3 students at his middle school and he didn't get in. He got over his disappointment over the summer but it wasn't fair and remember my kid saying that if he could give his spot to this other kid, he would do it and he's not wrong to feel that way.

I remember this back when TJ only admitted 440 kids per year (which was a change, up from 400) in the early 2000s. Just like college admissions there has always been something slightly random about TJ admissions in that you could do a lot right, be a super smart student, and still not get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ parent here.
We're here for the sports.

I am also from a feeder school and I also like TJ. I like the students, I like the program, I like the environment. But I can't help but feel bad for those kids that should have made it based on merit but did not. If you are coming from a feeder then you know at least one kid that deserved to get in over one of the kids that actually did get in.

I don't like the way they changed the process and if you're OK with it, that's fine but it was in fact about race.

I think we could use more TJs. If we are going to dilute the admissions standards, we should stop pretending that it's exclusive or selective and just expand the program to accommodate all interested students that meet those standards.

Now you make me feels bad. We are from big feeder and maybe that is my child you meant who did not deserve, but my child happy and thriving at TJ.
I hope that kid sill do well at base school, or even better.

PP here. It might be my kid for all I know but I also know a kid that was pretty excited about going to TJ and by all measures he was among the top 2 or 3 students at his middle school and he didn't get in. He got over his disappointment over the summer but it wasn't fair and remember my kid saying that if he could give his spot to this other kid, he would do it and he's not wrong to feel that way.

I remember this back when TJ only admitted 440 kids per year (which was a change, up from 400) in the early 2000s. Just like college admissions there has always been something slightly random about TJ admissions in that you could do a lot right, be a super smart student, and still not get in.

It feels a lot more random now. At least back in the day the testing requirement to get into the pool meant that there weren't a lot of surprises getting in. Sure the holistic part kept out some kids that should have gotten in but everyone that got in seemed to make sense. That is no longer true. There are some real head scratchers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ parent here.
We're here for the sports.

I am also from a feeder school and I also like TJ. I like the students, I like the program, I like the environment. But I can't help but feel bad for those kids that should have made it based on merit but did not. If you are coming from a feeder then you know at least one kid that deserved to get in over one of the kids that actually did get in.

I don't like the way they changed the process and if you're OK with it, that's fine but it was in fact about race.

I think we could use more TJs. If we are going to dilute the admissions standards, we should stop pretending that it's exclusive or selective and just expand the program to accommodate all interested students that meet those standards.

Now you make me feels bad. We are from big feeder and maybe that is my child you meant who did not deserve, but my child happy and thriving at TJ.
I hope that kid sill do well at base school, or even better.

PP here. It might be my kid for all I know but I also know a kid that was pretty excited about going to TJ and by all measures he was among the top 2 or 3 students at his middle school and he didn't get in. He got over his disappointment over the summer but it wasn't fair and remember my kid saying that if he could give his spot to this other kid, he would do it and he's not wrong to feel that way.

I remember this back when TJ only admitted 440 kids per year (which was a change, up from 400) in the early 2000s. Just like college admissions there has always been something slightly random about TJ admissions in that you could do a lot right, be a super smart student, and still not get in.

It feels a lot more random now. At least back in the day the testing requirement to get into the pool meant that there weren't a lot of surprises getting in. Sure the holistic part kept out some kids that should have gotten in but everyone that got in seemed to make sense. That is no longer true. There are some real head scratchers

That chop from 800 kids to 440 was still basically random.