TJ Results?

[Anonymous]

Are there any statistics regarding who made it to TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any statistics regarding who made it to TJ?

http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=2955

[Anonymous]

Interesting fact:

Number of applicants increased slightly from last year: 2868 vs. 2841

but the number of applicants who identified as "white" decreased significantly: 769 vs. 843

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting fact:

Number of applicants increased slightly from last year: 2868 vs. 2841

but the number of applicants who identified as "white" decreased significantly: 769 vs. 843

Also 1 in 8 is white and 1 in 5 is asian.. So, whats new at TJ ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting fact:

Number of applicants increased slightly from last year: 2868 vs. 2841

but the number of applicants who identified as "white" decreased significantly: 769 vs. 843

There is a lot of self-selection involved when it comes to applying to TJ. It is crazy to think that white applications will do anything other than continue to go down when TJ is close to 70% Asian, and the admissions rate for Asian applicants under TJ's supposedly "holistic" approach is much higher than the admissions rate for non-Asians, and both the percentage and absolute number of white students in FCPS as a whole is declining.

You may think that the trend is disturbing or, alternatively, amusing, but from a numbers perspective it's exactly what you'd expect to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting fact:

Number of applicants increased slightly from last year: 2868 vs. 2841

but the number of applicants who identified as "white" decreased significantly: 769 vs. 843

There is a lot of self-selection involved when it comes to applying to TJ. It is crazy to think that white applications will do anything other than continue to go down when TJ is close to 70% Asian, and the admissions rate for Asian applicants under TJ's supposedly "holistic" approach is much higher than the admissions rate for non-Asians, and both the percentage and absolute number of white students in FCPS as a whole is declining.

You may think that the trend is disturbing or, alternatively, amusing, but from a numbers perspective it's exactly what you'd expect to see.

The percentage of "whites" is certainly declining, but I don't think the total number of "whites" is declining. In terms of raw numbers, it appears that a smaller percentage of qualified "whites" are applying to TJ and hence plan to attend base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting fact:

Number of applicants increased slightly from last year: 2868 vs. 2841

but the number of applicants who identified as "white" decreased significantly: 769 vs. 843

There is a lot of self-selection involved when it comes to applying to TJ. It is crazy to think that white applications will do anything other than continue to go down when TJ is close to 70% Asian, and the admissions rate for Asian applicants under TJ's supposedly "holistic" approach is much higher than the admissions rate for non-Asians, and both the percentage and absolute number of white students in FCPS as a whole is declining.

You may think that the trend is disturbing or, alternatively, amusing, but from a numbers perspective it's exactly what you'd expect to see.

The percentage of "whites" is certainly declining, but I don't think the total number of "whites" is declining. In terms of raw numbers, it appears that a smaller percentage of qualified "whites" are applying to TJ and hence plan to attend base school.

I'm just referring to the total number of white students in FCPS, irrespective of who applies to TJ. For example, the number of white middle-school students in FCPS has gone from 13,048 in the fall of 2005 to 12,066 in the fall of 2010 and 11,416 in the fall of 2015. Even if nothing else was happening to discourage white students from applying to TJ, you'd expect to see fewer applications from white students given those trends.

[Anonymous]

I want to know the break down of applications and acceptance by middle schools.

[Anonymous]

How many families start prepping their children from elementary school for TJ? Science Olympiad, Math Counts, TJ Prep, etc. I would say a good amount from the families that have counted on TJ from a young age...before their child showed any inclination toward giftedness

[Anonymous]

prep classes, extra curricular clubs, etc, it all builds up the application to TJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:prep classes, extra curricular clubs, etc, it all builds up the application to TJ

mostly this. kids fizzle out thou in college/life. you can only beat them to perform so much...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know the break down of applications and acceptance by middle schools.

FCAG FOIAs this info. It will be out in another 2 weeksor so. Spoiler alert. The top 3 will be Carson, Rocky Run & Longfellow, although maybe not in that order.