TJ Today -

[Anonymous]

I, too, have seen discussion on this board earlier about how some of the cut offs to be a finalist are nationally normed while others are about TJ applicants.

But this is different from the info that people are reporting today. When you log in to see your child's scores, the web page specifically says that the percentiles given are against other TJ applicants.

[Anonymous]

New to FCPS, but what is SIS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes (OP), DS was accepted. He doesn’t know yet. Playing baseball . We told him it would be up to him to decide. He is so smart, I wish h3 would go. Did not prep at all and lord knows what he wrote on the SIS.

Congrats. What are the scores like? Wondering if GPA and Recommendations played bigger role in second round.

97 reading, 98 science and 88 math. 4.0 GPA, likely good recommendations, currently taking Algebra2/trig. No outside stem activities. Interested in medicine. Likely will choose home school or other option. So, opens up spot for waitlist . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD says she will be fine at TJ and fine at her base school. And she will. But underneath I can tell she wants it so badly. Her brother attends, so she knows exactly what she would be signing up for.

Speaking of which, her brother is also profoundly gifted but lazy. I would not push it. TJ cannot be done on just be smart. You need to put in the hours and hours and hours each week. And be self-motivated enough to teach yourself. There are definitely times I regret letting him attend, because I knew it would be an issue. And it is. His grades are just not where they would be if he got the “low hanging fruit”— test corrections, test retakes, extra credit. We spend way too much time arguing about effort and grades, and AP hate that this is the last 4 years before college. He love the schools and is happy there. He really wanted to go. He will not consider dropping back to the base school. I would never, ever, send a kid to TJ who was not enthusiastic about going. And certainly not one who is being honest with you about not wanting the work load.

In the same way, I don’t worry at all about DD if she is accepted. She is very smart, but not super fast intelligence/brilliant like her brother. But she will work, and work and work some more if she goes, and has been fixated for years in an areas of STEM unique to TJ.

Her brother says that TJ admissions is fatally flawed if he gets in and she does not, because she is exactly the kid who would thrive at TJ.

Good luck to every kid with fingers crossed today.

Hope she made it in. My DS is still saying no way and for some of the reasons you outlined above, we may not try and push Him to go. Although, I think he is the type of kid TJ was intended for. Profoundly gifted with a real science and math aptitude. No test prep at all and still did very well on entrance exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD says she will be fine at TJ and fine at her base school. And she will. But underneath I can tell she wants it so badly. Her brother attends, so she knows exactly what she would be signing up for.

Speaking of which, her brother is also profoundly gifted but lazy. I would not push it. TJ cannot be done on just be smart. You need to put in the hours and hours and hours each week. And be self-motivated enough to teach yourself. There are definitely times I regret letting him attend, because I knew it would be an issue. And it is. His grades are just not where they would be if he got the “low hanging fruit”— test corrections, test retakes, extra credit. We spend way too much time arguing about effort and grades, and AP hate that this is the last 4 years before college. He love the schools and is happy there. He really wanted to go. He will not consider dropping back to the base school. I would never, ever, send a kid to TJ who was not enthusiastic about going. And certainly not one who is being honest with you about not wanting the work load.

In the same way, I don’t worry at all about DD if she is accepted. She is very smart, but not super fast intelligence/brilliant like her brother. But she will work, and work and work some more if she goes, and has been fixated for years in an areas of STEM unique to TJ.

Her brother says that TJ admissions is fatally flawed if he gets in and she does not, because she is exactly the kid who would thrive at TJ.

Good luck to every kid with fingers crossed today.

Hope she made it in. My DS is still saying no way and for some of the reasons you outlined above, we may not try and push Him to go. Although, I think he is the type of kid TJ was intended for. Profoundly gifted with a real science and math aptitude. No test prep at all and still did very well on entrance exam.

Let him be a kid and not another TJ drone. It sounds like he is even smarter than you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Let him be a kid and not another TJ drone. It sounds like he is even smarter than you think.

No need to insult TJ kids by calling them drones - those I have a met are hardworking creative and passionate young scholars

[Anonymous]

My DS in. 98% Quant Q. 99% reading and 96% science.

[Anonymous]

New to FCPS, but what is SIS?

The writing portion (2nd part) of the Tj test...with the essay.

[Anonymous]

Just curious any of the kids here attended TJ prep classes?

[Anonymous]

Mine did not.

[Anonymous]

We did not, either (99, 99, 83)

[Anonymous]

Hope 8:01s son goes. Sounds a lot like myson and they can be friends! My older child goes and has really enjoyed TJ and we have been very impressed with the TJ kids we have met. Not drones at all.

[Anonymous]

My DS is still saying no way and for some of the reasons you outlined above, we may not try and push Him to go. Although, I think he is the type of kid TJ was intended for. Profoundly gifted with a real science and math aptitude. No test prep at all and still did very well on entrance exam.

This sounds a lot like my son, a few years ago. He kept saying he didn't want to go, but when he went to school on Monday, his friends all made a big deal about it, congratulated him, and said, you should at least try it, man. We went to the open houses and he became a little more interested. Finally, he decided to give it a year and then reevaluate.

He ended up loving it, graduated and is a STEM major at a great school. He's very happy he went to TJ and still keeps up with his friends, who are all also at great schools. I think they'll have a very cool network of friends when they are all adults.

Tell your son he can make his own decision, but at least go to the open houses and listen and ask questions of the present students so that he has lot of good information.

Congrats to him!

[Anonymous]

I don’t mean to be insensitive, but I am curious about scores for those who were not accepted. Would anyone be willing to post?

[Anonymous]

My son was WLed with 89 reading, 96 science, and 96 math.