When does the TJ waitlist start to move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they put all 4.0 Geom, 4.0 Alg 2 on WL along with some Alg1 kids who did not get in (not necessarily 4.0 for Alg 1?). For one thing, that's a 1000 fewer people who will be complaining for the time being. How are you people taking the WL seriously?

That is false. My DC was in that category (4.0 and Algebra II) and got in, but declined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we will able to know that how many kids are in waited list?

Someone FOIAed this. There are over 1,000 kids on the waitlist.

https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

In prior years, the waitlist was only 50 kids. Why they would give so many kids and their parents false hope is beyond me. It’s just cruel.

I’m glad this company was willing to share what they found.

TJ admissions said they were going to do this prior to applications season.

No one forced anybody to apply.

[Anonymous]

My Algebra 2, 4.0 kid got in and took the spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Algebra 2, 4.0 kid got in and took the spot.

Is this from the wait list or from the original admission offer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we will able to know that how many kids are in waited list?

Someone FOIAed this. There are over 1,000 kids on the waitlist.

https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

In prior years, the waitlist was only 50 kids. Why they would give so many kids and their parents false hope is beyond me. It’s just cruel.

I’m glad this company was willing to share what they found.

It is cruel. I actually had a kid get in off the WL when it was 50 and attend the class of 2020. So, BTDT. I believe the entire WL was offered sports that year Being on the WL for many kids means they still hold out hope and don’t being to mentally accept/adjust to attending base school. It’s hard to be 5-6 weeks away from school starting and not know which HS you are attending. In the past, there was a high probability that WL kids would get an offer, and they finalized offers by early July.

They have equitied admissions to death. They need to cap the WL at something reasonable and not try to 1:1 match WL sports by schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they put all 4.0 Geom, 4.0 Alg 2 on WL along with some Alg1 kids who did not get in (not necessarily 4.0 for Alg 1?). For one thing, that's a 1000 fewer people who will be complaining for the time being. How are you people taking the WL seriously?

That is false. My DC was in that category (4.0 and Algebra II) and got in, but declined.

That would depend on the middle school. If there weren't enough 4.0 Alg 1 kids and FARM kids to fill 1.5% requirement, they would have had to move on to Geometry or even Alg 2 students. The fact that your kid got in with Geometry, or that some other kid was admitted with Algebra 2 does not disprove the conjecture that FARM and Alg 1 were preferred over Geometry and Algebra 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they put all 4.0 Geom, 4.0 Alg 2 on WL along with some Alg1 kids who did not get in (not necessarily 4.0 for Alg 1?). For one thing, that's a 1000 fewer people who will be complaining for the time being. How are you people taking the WL seriously?

That is false. My DC was in that category (4.0 and Algebra II) and got in, but declined.

That would depend on the middle school. If there weren't enough 4.0 Alg 1 kids and FARM kids to fill 1.5% requirement, they would have had to move on to Geometry or even Alg 2 students. The fact that your kid got in with Geometry, or that some other kid was admitted with Algebra 2 does not disprove the conjecture that FARM and Alg 1 were preferred over Geometry and Algebra 2

That conjecture makes no sense and therefore does not require disproving.

At some point admissions will release statistics of how many students in the incoming class were taking Alg1. It will be a MUCH smaller number than most people on here seem to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they put all 4.0 Geom, 4.0 Alg 2 on WL along with some Alg1 kids who did not get in (not necessarily 4.0 for Alg 1?). For one thing, that's a 1000 fewer people who will be complaining for the time being. How are you people taking the WL seriously?

That is false. My DC was in that category (4.0 and Algebra II) and got in, but declined.

That would depend on the middle school. If there weren't enough 4.0 Alg 1 kids and FARM kids to fill 1.5% requirement, they would have had to move on to Geometry or even Alg 2 students. The fact that your kid got in with Geometry, or that some other kid was admitted with Algebra 2 does not disprove the conjecture that FARM and Alg 1 were preferred over Geometry and Algebra 2

That conjecture makes no sense and therefore does not require disproving.

At some point admissions will release statistics of how many students in the incoming class were taking Alg1. It will be a MUCH smaller number than most people on here seem to believe.

They will only release this in response to a FOIA request. They perfer to have the press release be the only source of sunlight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we will able to know that how many kids are in waited list?

Someone FOIAed this. There are over 1,000 kids on the waitlist.

https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

In prior years, the waitlist was only 50 kids. Why they would give so many kids and their parents false hope is beyond me. It’s just cruel.

I’m glad this company was willing to share what they found.

TJ only has 550 seats but why would they put so many kids in the WL? That's totally nonsense, should we believe this part of information?

[Anonymous]

I think they have a large waitlist because it is really an aggregation of separate waitlists for each school. In previous years, they wouldn't have needed to go past 50. I can guarantee you they will be going outside their top 50 to fill waitlist, because of the per school quota.

They may have needed 1000 to make sure they reach say a waitlist of 10 from every school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they have a large waitlist because it is really an aggregation of separate waitlists for each school. In previous years, they wouldn't have needed to go past 50. I can guarantee you they will be going outside their top 50 to fill waitlist, because of the per school quota.

They may have needed 1000 to make sure they reach say a waitlist of 10 from every school.

This is correct. They also had no way of knowing what their yield rate would be because of the uniqueness of this process - timing, investment to apply, and the totally new geographic and demographic spread of the admits.

They’re dedicated to a class of 550, which I think is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

My DD was accepted off the wait list this morning!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was accepted off the wait list this morning!

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was accepted off the wait list this morning!

Which middle school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was accepted off the wait list this morning!

Congratulations! Which school and can you post the stats? (Alg 2/Geometry/Alg 1, GPA etc)