Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
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Anonymous
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Not true. If student has aD or even D- and drops, this is recorded as WP and does not affect GPA. Regulation 2445.
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Anonymous
Speaking of Science Olympiad, TJ was beaten by both Woodson and Langley in the regional this year: https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-03-01_VA_mary_washington_regional_c/ Teams from other schools made adjustment to provide opportunity to more junior students in the school team. As a result, TJ got 1st at the state tournament leading the 2nd place with a very small spread: https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-03-29_VA_states_c/ TJ was the only team heading to the national, anounced at the VA state award ceremony. Woodson was granted permission to attend the national later, lost some preparation time. But still, Woodson got 25th at the national, not too far from TJ's 19th. https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-05-23_nationals_c/ Obviously, the current TJ admission failed to recruit many STEM strong middle schoolers. The mismatch of learning needs is causing waste of resources and opportunities. |
Anonymous
Let's see...TJ did better at Nationals this year than almost recent prior years (aside from 2019 & 2021): 2013 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 25th 2014 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 23rd 2018 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 26th 2019 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 12th 2021 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 18th 2022 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 21st 2023 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 26th 2024 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 21st 2025 Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C) 19th And has been kicking ass at States in recent years: 2010 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 3rd 2011 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 4th 2012 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 3rd 2013 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2014 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2015 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 2nd 2016 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 2nd 2017 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 2nd 2018 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2019 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2021 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2022 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 2nd 2023 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2024 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st 2025 Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C) 1st And had their best showing at CMU this year: 2020 Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C) 4th, 5th, 6th 2021 Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C) 3rd, 4th, 6th 2023 Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C) 2nd, 4th, 5th 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C) 1st, 3rd, 4th And yet...the RWNJs complain... |
Anonymous
DP The top 100-200 kids haven't really changed much. It's the rest of the kids that are getting thinned out. The notion that there hasn't been a reduction in average academic ability is ridiculous. 120 point drop on the PSAT. NO OTHER SCHOOL has seen this sort of drop. None of the other school in FCPS saw this sort of drop. None of the specialized schools in NYC saw this sort of drop. The SAT numbers are going to come out and I think that will confirm the PSAT results. |
Anonymous
To be clear, this is to pre-empt the notion that the 120 point drop in PSAT score was some sort of lingering pandemic effect. |
Anonymous
College admissions consider applicant with WP as top 5% or bottom 5%? |
Anonymous
How many other schools have increased FRE % from 2% to 16%? |
Anonymous
What are you trying to say about the FRE students? So you know how bad their PSAT score have to be for 16% of the class to drag down the PSAT average but 120 points? It's not just the FRE kids, more than 50% of the kids are scoring 1400 or lower. |
Anonymous
Of course TJ will always do well in these competitions, the teams are almost all Asian students from wealthy feeders…..the students who should be found to TJ. |
Anonymous
Now that kids come from all middle schools we are likely seeing more kids from families in the lower-income ranges, even if they don't qualify for FRMs. The income distribution has shifted so it's not surprising that the standardized test scores may have shifted. 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markkantrowitz/2021/05/21/how-admissions-tests-discriminate-against-low-income-and-minority-student-admissions-at-selective-colleges/ |
Anonymous
Good thing they added seats so there is still room for them AND the kids from underrepresented middle schools. |
Anonymous
Unless we are selecting these students at random (which we very will may be), the relative distribution of high achievement shouldn't impact the test scores this much. Only FRM students are getting an admissions bump everyone else is supposed to be on a level playing field. It is entirely possible that wealthy parents are more likely to have academically higher kids. It is almost certain that they will have more academically prepared kids. You know what other demographic group reliably scores well on the SAT? Almost 10% of asian test takers get a 1500 or higher on the SAT. |