Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

I am Beginning to feel that everyone who did not get accepted is now in the wait pool

[Anonymous]

My DD waitlisted. Hughes MS. Of 3 of her friends, 1 no, 1 wl, 1 yes.

[Anonymous]

Did not get in. Not wait-listed. LEVEL IV AAP kid with 3.9 gpa and 3.93 Math/Sci. Honors Alg 1, Honors Alg 2, Honors Geom all solid A's

Not a feeder school. Not a test prep kid in general. Asian Male. He usually tests very well on standardized, but of course we had no objective testing this year. He had three teachers who had agreed to write letters which, of course, never got written.

[Anonymous]

My kid got in but 4 of his friends did not get in. I expected one of DS friends to get in, he got placed top 10 nationally in two different activities, got the principal award for 2 years in middle school and citizenship award in 6th grade. Really shocked as that kid was explaining to my son 2 different ways to solve the math problem in the test. Looks like a hack job in the name of equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is waitlisted. According to the website, a waitpool of students will be created to offer additional students an opportunity to attend TJHSST when admitted applicants decline the offer of admission. Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first.

When is the wait going to be over

How do you evaluate kids if there is no admission test,and no recommendation letters from teachers?

Skin color and attending a non-AAP,Center = you’re in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did not get in. Not wait-listed. LEVEL IV AAP kid with 3.9 gpa and 3.93 Math/Sci. Honors Alg 1, Honors Alg 2, Honors Geom all solid A's

Not a feeder school. Not a test prep kid in general. Asian Male. He usually tests very well on standardized, but of course we had no objective testing this year. He had three teachers who had agreed to write letters which, of course, never got written.

But, he’s Asian, and TJ is literally bragging about cutting the number of Asians by 1/3 or more.

[Anonymous]

How does the process favor URM when it’s race blind? That doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the process favor URM when it’s race blind? That doesn’t make sense.

Well, ots. It race blind in practice, because URMs get a plus factor.

[Anonymous]

WL. LCPS. Not sure of the GPA. We moved from NJ last year. So Algebra 1 ( HS math is not offered at the same pace as here) and been in GT program. At LCPS spectrum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

I agree that the new system can be gamed.

That’s exactly why it should be a merit lottery.

[Anonymous]

Yeah! One of the kids from our school who got caught cheating and got suspended from an event got in to TJ!

Equity here it comes. Equal opportunity to cheaters too. Way to go FCPS!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah! One of the kids from our school who got caught cheating and got suspended from an event got in to TJ!

Equity here it comes. Equal opportunity to cheaters too. Way to go FCPS!!

**equal outcome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

23 and Me is the ticket I guess? Almost anyone can check multiracial.

Dear Lord. Just shut down the school or change it to an academy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

23 and Me is the ticket I guess? Almost anyone can check multiracial.

Dear Lord. Just shut down the school or change it to an academy.

The sheer stupidity of the School Board members like Elaine Tholen who fought so hard against a simple lottery in favor of this new gaming cannot be under-estimated.