Youngkin and TJ

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

Hardly.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise. Now, the school your kid who didn’t get ins class of 2025 will be more bright.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

You do realize the test was only one component of the application? The previous incoming TJ classes also had an average 4.0 GPA and a bunch of extracurricular achievements. They were by all measures excellent students, so it's odd you keep trying to drag them down.

By what academic standards can the new classes be considered better? Does the lottery somehow make them more academically talented? Does the lower 3.5 GPA cutoff somehow make them more talented accomplished?

You can make the argument that the new admissions criteria does a better job of distributing opportunity, but by all objective measures the previous classes were more academically accomplished.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

Standardized testing may not be a perfect measure of academic talent, but it's a measure of learning aptitude and is a much better measure than race or the BS racial representation you created.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

Standardized testing may not be a perfect measure of academic talent, but it's a measure of learning aptitude and is a much better measure than race or the BS racial representation you created.

I agree. But I don't care. TJ is a public high school and its admissions have never been completely based on the highest scorers getting in. There have always been other considerations and some lesser candidates get in. That's just the way it goes.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise. Now, the school your kid who didn’t get ins class of 2025 will be more bright.

DP, but it will be interesting to see whether FCPS actually tries to meets the needs of students at their base schools, now that even more of the most talented kids in FCPS won't be going to TJ.

They claim they will, but more likely than not they won't (but will still have to dumb down TJ).

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

Standardized testing may not be a perfect measure of academic talent, but it's a measure of learning aptitude and is a much better measure than race or the BS racial representation you created.

I agree. But I don't care. TJ is a public high school and its admissions have never been completely based on the highest scorers getting in. There have always been other considerations and some lesser candidates get in. That's just the way it goes.

Where is the TJ mission statement?

It is to serve only the very tippy top kids based off of scores?

Or is it to serve the community?

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https://www.fcps.edu/registration/thomas-jefferson-admissions/welcome/policies-regulations
“The mission of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is to provide students with a challenging learning environment focused on math, science, and technology, to inspire joy at the prospect of discovery, and to foster a culture of innovation based on ethical behavior and the shared interests of humanity.”

Fairfax County School Board Policy 3355 established TJHSST as “a high school for science and technology where students with exceptional quantitative skills and interest in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, can pursue higher levels of academic achievement in those subjects in preparation for the pursuit of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics focused profession”. Students are selected for TJHSST through a competitive admissions process and the role of the TJHSST Admissions Office is to administer and oversee this process.

We are looking for highly motivated students with diverse backgrounds, talents, and skills, who demonstrate characteristics based on FCPS School Board Policy 3355 and TJHSST’s school mission.

Nothing says that the only selection criteria is a standardized test.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

You do realize the test was only one component of the application? The previous incoming TJ classes also had an average 4.0 GPA and a bunch of extracurricular achievements. They were by all measures excellent students, so it's odd you keep trying to drag them down.

By what academic standards can the new classes be considered better? Does the lottery somehow make them more academically talented? Does the lower 3.5 GPA cutoff somehow make them more talented accomplished?

You can make the argument that the new admissions criteria does a better job of distributing opportunity, but by all objective measures the previous classes were more academically accomplished.

My response was addressing a poster who said that the incoming students were materially less bright.

My argument is that there isn’t a basis to make that claim. My belief is that the incoming class, while fundamentally different in many ways from previous classes, is just as deserving of a TJ education as the students from previous classes. Thousands of deserving students were left out of previous classes, and thousands of others were left out of this one. But at least with this new process, you don’t have entire schools or regions left out, with future students from those pyramids not seeing TJ as an option for them.

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

Standardized testing may not be a perfect measure of academic talent, but it's a measure of learning aptitude and is a much better measure than race or the BS racial representation you created.

I agree. But I don't care. TJ is a public high school and its admissions have never been completely based on the highest scorers getting in. There have always been other considerations and some lesser candidates get in. That's just the way it goes.

No it wasn’t and it shouldn’t be. It’s a governor’s school with a special mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/registration/thomas-jefferson-admissions/welcome/policies-regulations
“The mission of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is to provide students with a challenging learning environment focused on math, science, and technology, to inspire joy at the prospect of discovery, and to foster a culture of innovation based on ethical behavior and the shared interests of humanity.”

Fairfax County School Board Policy 3355 established TJHSST as “a high school for science and technology where students with exceptional quantitative skills and interest in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, can pursue higher levels of academic achievement in those subjects in preparation for the pursuit of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics focused profession”. Students are selected for TJHSST through a competitive admissions process and the role of the TJHSST Admissions Office is to administer and oversee this process.

We are looking for highly motivated students with diverse backgrounds, talents, and skills, who demonstrate characteristics based on FCPS School Board Policy 3355 and TJHSST’s school mission.

Nothing says that the only selection criteria is a standardized test.

There have been multiple TJ mission statements over the years.

TJ’s real mission is to perpetuate TJ’s disproportionate draw on FCPS’s attention and resources by whatever means necessary. It was starting not to be cool enough to the white alumni and School Board members with so many Asian kids so they shook things up to try and make it cool again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/registration/thomas-jefferson-admissions/welcome/policies-regulations
“The mission of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is to provide students with a challenging learning environment focused on math, science, and technology, to inspire joy at the prospect of discovery, and to foster a culture of innovation based on ethical behavior and the shared interests of humanity.”

Fairfax County School Board Policy 3355 established TJHSST as “a high school for science and technology where students with exceptional quantitative skills and interest in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, can pursue higher levels of academic achievement in those subjects in preparation for the pursuit of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics focused profession”. Students are selected for TJHSST through a competitive admissions process and the role of the TJHSST Admissions Office is to administer and oversee this process.

We are looking for highly motivated students with diverse backgrounds, talents, and skills, who demonstrate characteristics based on FCPS School Board Policy 3355 and TJHSST’s school mission.

Nothing says that the only selection criteria is a standardized test.

There have been multiple TJ mission statements over the years.

TJ’s real mission is to perpetuate TJ’s disproportionate draw on FCPS’s attention and resources by whatever means necessary. It was starting not to be cool enough to the white alumni and School Board members with so many Asian kids so they shook things up to try and make it cool again.

The simple truth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The numbers seems about what you'd expect at TJ with the school now taking kids from high-FARMS middle schools. The successful applicants will still skew towards higher-income families at high-FARMS schools and the kids getting in from the residual pool (not the 1.5% quotas) still will be more likely to attend schools with less poverty.

So maybe the misreporting isn't as rampant as some are claiming.

Yes, I don't think there are that many amoral parents who'd falsely claim they are economically disadvantaged.

The questions were incredibly poorly written. They were written such that even an honest (but possibly clueless) non-low income parent might have checked yes.

If your child has been getting free meals ALL year and you are asked is your child getting free meals, many parents will check yes! It’s ridiculous that the admissions office is being allowed conduct admissions in such an manner. I’ve emailed Laura Jane Cohen and she didn’t care either. It’s all about getting a good press release apparently.

Yes. It’s ironic that Brabrand was so enamored of claiming kids were getting into TJ due to “pay-to-play” when they just ended up swapping that for a classic political patronage scheme. Doesn’t matter whether the best qualified kids are getting in as long as the seats are distributed across the county and poor kids are getting an advantage that kids whose families worked hard to ensure they weren’t on FARMS don’t receive.

Except now the best kids are getting in instead of the most prepped.

That's a typical liberal lie! TJ class of 2025 students are less bright because of the randomness introduced in the admissions process.

How do you know? Are you just making an assumption based on your mistaken beliefs that standardized testing are a measure of academic talent rather than preparation?

Standardized testing may not be a perfect measure of academic talent, but it's a measure of learning aptitude and is a much better measure than race or the BS racial representation you created.

I agree. But I don't care. TJ is a public high school and its admissions have never been completely based on the highest scorers getting in. There have always been other considerations and some lesser candidates get in. That's just the way it goes.

No it wasn’t and it shouldn’t be. It’s a governor’s school with a special mission.

Bull. I kid from Arlington gets in because he lives in Arlington over a better kid from Fairfax because Arlington paid for the seat. So admissions have never been the best and top scores get in. This is just one example of how there are other factors at play in how and where kids are ranked and get in. So you are simply wrong.