Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ also, which one is a better TJ prospect:
Kid A: regular English, honors science, honors history, algebra 1, dabbled a little in some STEM extracurricular, but didn’t take anything seriously. Prepped like crazy for IAAT, but still only got 68th percentile. All A’s

Kid B: AAP classes for all subjects, Algebra 2 with As in geometry and Algebra 1 also, top 10 in State Mathcounts, AIME qualifier, awards in science Olympiad. One A- in AAP English.

Old process selected kid B. New one selects kid A.

They are both prospects. Equally.

New process selected kid C too

Kid C AAP classes for all subjects, Algebra 2 with As in geometry and Algebra 1 also, top 10 in State Mathcounts, AIME qualifier, awards in science Olympiad. One A- in AAP English but at a poor school

Kid C is a subset of kid B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ also, which one is a better TJ prospect:
Kid A: regular English, honors science, honors history, algebra 1, dabbled a little in some STEM extracurricular, but didn’t take anything seriously. Prepped like crazy for IAAT, but still only got 68th percentile. All A’s

Kid B: AAP classes for all subjects, Algebra 2 with As in geometry and Algebra 1 also, top 10 in State Mathcounts, AIME qualifier, awards in science Olympiad. One A- in AAP English.

Old process selected kid B. New one selects kid A.

I’m seeing two kids who are prospects for TJ. Kid b isn’t any more deserving because he or she has been accelerated more and likes math and science contests. I don’t know anything about the science Olympiad, but I do know that doing well in middle school math contests is an extremely narrow math talent. Doing well involves a lot of study, but it’s like the spelling bee in that studying 1000 hours fir the spelling bee doesn’t make you a gifted writer—it makes you good at the spelling bee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

There is a chance of that happening if it reaches the Supreme Court, being that TJ is a public school and the adverse impact of this on Asian Americans is so substantial. Weird thing is, I don’t see many whites caring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

About half a year ago, I talked with someone who had a professional stake in promoting the TJ reforms. One of the reasons he gave me for why I should support the new system was because, according to him, I'd no longer be able to stand out in the crowd during TJ admissions compared to X many years ago. Because of all of the Asian students. I kid you not.

(yes, I'm White and he was White)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

About half a year ago, I talked with someone who had a professional stake in promoting the TJ reforms. One of the reasons he gave me for why I should support the new system was because, according to him, I'd no longer be able to stand out in the crowd during TJ admissions compared to X many years ago. Because of all of the Asian students. I kid you not.

(yes, I'm White and he was White)

I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

Sin thinking about it some more, I’ll anticipate that the plaintiffs will prevail in lower court, get reversed by the appellate court, and the Supreme Court will reverse the appellate court. It’ll be the key affirmative action case. It’ll be narrow because Robertas likes narrow rulings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

About half a year ago, I talked with someone who had a professional stake in promoting the TJ reforms. One of the reasons he gave me for why I should support the new system was because, according to him, I'd no longer be able to stand out in the crowd during TJ admissions compared to X many years ago. Because of all of the Asian students. I kid you not.

(yes, I'm White and he was White)

I don’t understand.

They welcome the white kids. It’s the others they don’t want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

Good grades, test scores, and showing interest should be enough. Having a private tutor or being interested in math competitions should not be a qualifier. I’m an new poster btw.

[Anonymous]

Please get rid of this magnet school now. You people (and FCPS) using it as a constant foil for your "meritocracy vs. equity" battles is just gross and a disservice to the county's students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

Good grades, test scores, and showing interest should be enough. Having a private tutor or being interested in math competitions should not be a qualifier. I’m an new poster btw.

You said "test scores." So you are in favor of an admissions test. That's a great idea, an admisison test. Take the subjectivity out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sin thinking about it some more, I’ll anticipate that the plaintiffs will prevail in lower court, get reversed by the appellate court, and the Supreme Court will reverse the appellate court. It’ll be the key affirmative action case. It’ll be narrow because Robertas likes narrow rulings.

My prediction. The court says the 1.5% rule can stay, the "experience factor" has to go.