Reasons why one would not accept TJ offer?

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It appears you are not familiar with the current diversity at TJ. We are first-generation German immigrants, and our DD interacts with peers of various ethnic backgrounds, including Russian, Chinese, Indian, and West Indies, in a multifaceted manner reminiscent of the cultural exchange experiences one might hope for in college with international students. Her circle of close friends, which began with TJ freshman projects like iBET, 8th-period clubs, and lacrosse team, has flourished with mutual cultural learning and collective participation in monthly cultural festival celebrations. Just this month, we all volunteered and celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year, and we are now preparing for the Indian festival of colors, among others.

We were also misinformed by racists who said TJ is all Asian Americans. As the principal mentioned, the last year class of students represented ethnicities from 40 plus countries, of which about 8 are Asian countries. Racists who tend to be weak in World Geography narrow down their focus to just Asian Americans, when there are two to three dozen other ethnicities ranging from Africa, Caribbean including West Indies, Latin America, North America, Europe, and Australia.

There is a difference between having one or two of a race, and having the majority of the class be one race.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how often this poster brings up this Curie and TJ thing.

Ultimately though, even if this ridiculous fairytale were true, the admissions response was not to fix the testing process but instead remove testing almost entirely.

People also forget that there were two other tests, but those are gone as well.

The unnecessary reference to "conservatives" reveals what this is really about for them.

It is worth noting that initially, this was a necessity because under COVID-19 protocols at the time, it wasn't realistic to ask 3,000 applicants to sit for a proctored exam during the worst phase of infections and deaths. This would have had to happen in January or February of 2021 and there was no way it would have worked.

I actually would have been fine with maintaining some testing structure - the existence of the tests wasn't the problem, it was their use as a gatekeeping element. A student under the previous system could have scored in the 99th percentile on both the Quant-Q and the ACT Aspire Science, but if they scored in the 74th percentile on the Aspire Reading, they'd be ineligible to be semifinalists. That process was broken too.

There's nothing wrong with testing as long as it's used as a data point amongst many others in a holistic admissions process and cannot be used by outsiders as evidence of racism in the process. Unfortunately, that's precisely what happens when parents of students whose strongest metric is their exam scores claim that admissions officers are dinging their kids on personality scores because of race - when it's actually their personality.

But they threw out testing. Fine. Now no one can leverage that advantage. But then they punished kids for what their parents do for a living, so instead of equalizing the advantage they just shifted it to another group of kids.

And even further, the lack of differentiation of curriculum in middle school, maybe norm’s for each county, also punished kids who take more rigorous workloads.

They didn’t even consider base schools when assigning their 1.5% to AAP centers.

They achieved their goal. But the results coming in also confirm the critics concern.

DP. No students were punished for what happened. Nor were students punished who want to go to TJ, no matter how much you complain on their behalf.

Yeah penalized in the admissions process is more accurate.

Sounds like you may not be familiar with the current admissions process. No punishment, no penalization.

Some kids receive points because they get free lunch. Kids whose parents make a certain amount of money don’t. Seems like a penalty that is out of a kids control.

Look at the admitted students. It doesn't help much - but those students are no longer totally locked out of the admissions process as they were before.

It's helped a ton. TJ used to be 2% free/reduced lunch. It's incoming classes are closer to 12% free/reduced lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how often this poster brings up this Curie and TJ thing.

Ultimately though, even if this ridiculous fairytale were true, the admissions response was not to fix the testing process but instead remove testing almost entirely.

People also forget that there were two other tests, but those are gone as well.

The unnecessary reference to "conservatives" reveals what this is really about for them.

It is worth noting that initially, this was a necessity because under COVID-19 protocols at the time, it wasn't realistic to ask 3,000 applicants to sit for a proctored exam during the worst phase of infections and deaths. This would have had to happen in January or February of 2021 and there was no way it would have worked.

I actually would have been fine with maintaining some testing structure - the existence of the tests wasn't the problem, it was their use as a gatekeeping element. A student under the previous system could have scored in the 99th percentile on both the Quant-Q and the ACT Aspire Science, but if they scored in the 74th percentile on the Aspire Reading, they'd be ineligible to be semifinalists. That process was broken too.

There's nothing wrong with testing as long as it's used as a data point amongst many others in a holistic admissions process and cannot be used by outsiders as evidence of racism in the process. Unfortunately, that's precisely what happens when parents of students whose strongest metric is their exam scores claim that admissions officers are dinging their kids on personality scores because of race - when it's actually their personality.

But they threw out testing. Fine. Now no one can leverage that advantage. But then they punished kids for what their parents do for a living, so instead of equalizing the advantage they just shifted it to another group of kids.

And even further, the lack of differentiation of curriculum in middle school, maybe norm’s for each county, also punished kids who take more rigorous workloads.

They didn’t even consider base schools when assigning their 1.5% to AAP centers.

They achieved their goal. But the results coming in also confirm the critics concern.

DP. No students were punished for what happened. Nor were students punished who want to go to TJ, no matter how much you complain on their behalf.

Yeah penalized in the admissions process is more accurate.

Sounds like you may not be familiar with the current admissions process. No punishment, no penalization.

Some kids receive points because they get free lunch. Kids whose parents make a certain amount of money don’t. Seems like a penalty that is out of a kids control.

Look at the admitted students. It doesn't help much - but those students are no longer totally locked out of the admissions process as they were before.

It's helped a ton. TJ used to be 2% free/reduced lunch. It's incoming classes are closer to 12% free/reduced lunch.

Iow, didn't help much...

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Anonymous wrote:There was a race based admissions program before. Why weren't the records from this time shown to the public? They could have evaluated the impact of this program, the grades and later success of admitted students, compared to the admissions evaluation scores.

Because they are sure that this time it will be different.
It won't, but they have convinced themselves it will.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Curie offer Summer classes?

Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses. We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting. We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp. There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.

Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.

We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.

About how many total kids go to Curie?

Curie has multiple locations as well as online classes. They dont publish counts but likely few hundreds.

One year they had over 100 admits to TJ so obviously that many. But could the number be close to 1000 8th graders?

I have a feeling many of those kids would get in without thus program. At the end of the day it's just like taking a practice SAT test. Eventually you have to also keep up in class.

Well no. Obviously they would not have - that was one of the reasons they changed the admissions test. Did they do fine once they got in? Probably. But no, without the specific prep directed at strategies for answering specific test questions, they would not have gotten in

That's why I think the new test is so clever. It's much less hackable (cheatable).

I've taught at Kaplan and Princeton Review and there is no secret ingredient in the secret ingredient soup. You can learn all the test taking techniques in a 2 week course, the rest of it is what can more accurately be described as learning. Maybe some reinforcement but there not 2 years worth of material on how to take standardized tests. Literally, less than 10 hours of "test taking strategies and techniques" and most of that 10 hours would be reinforcement.

What they have now is certainly less hackable because it's almost random.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Curie offer Summer classes?

Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses. We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting. We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp. There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.

Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.

We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.

About how many total kids go to Curie?

Curie has multiple locations as well as online classes. They dont publish counts but likely few hundreds.

One year they had over 100 admits to TJ so obviously that many. But could the number be close to 1000 8th graders?

I have a feeling many of those kids would get in without thus program. At the end of the day it's just like taking a practice SAT test. Eventually you have to also keep up in class.

Well no. Obviously they would not have - that was one of the reasons they changed the admissions test. Did they do fine once they got in? Probably. But no, without the specific prep directed at strategies for answering specific test questions, they would not have gotten in

That's why I think the new test is so clever. It's much less hackable (cheatable).

Once you account for per school quota, I think Curie's results have gone up. It is easier to prep kids fpr an essay than for advanced math problems.

You are funny. No one enrolls in Curie to prep for a silly essay. As was mentioned above, Curie Learning has always taught math, science, and english enrichment for advanced learners. It's the significant volume of Curie students that apply to TJ that result in their high acceptance numbers.

DP. Who is funny? The essays are the most important part of the application, since everyone who is eligible is taking similar classes and has a similar profile. They may be "light" or "silly" in your opinion but they are serious enough to allow the admissions people to pick their admitted class.

I agree, essays have words, and words have the power to inspire, motivate, comfort, and heal. TJ is a STEM school, but instead of math and science, words are used to select applicants. Admissions people figured this out, alright.

It's like picking a basketball team with an art contest.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Curie offer Summer classes?

Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses. We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting. We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp. There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.

Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.

We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.

About how many total kids go to Curie?

Curie has multiple locations as well as online classes. They dont publish counts but likely few hundreds.

One year they had over 100 admits to TJ so obviously that many. But could the number be close to 1000 8th graders?

I have a feeling many of those kids would get in without thus program. At the end of the day it's just like taking a practice SAT test. Eventually you have to also keep up in class.

Well no. Obviously they would not have - that was one of the reasons they changed the admissions test. Did they do fine once they got in? Probably. But no, without the specific prep directed at strategies for answering specific test questions, they would not have gotten in

That's why I think the new test is so clever. It's much less hackable (cheatable).

I've taught at Kaplan and Princeton Review and there is no secret ingredient in the secret ingredient soup. You can learn all the test taking techniques in a 2 week course, the rest of it is what can more accurately be described as learning. Maybe some reinforcement but there not 2 years worth of material on how to take standardized tests. Literally, less than 10 hours of "test taking strategies and techniques" and most of that 10 hours would be reinforcement.

What they have now is certainly less hackable because it's almost random.

You replying to your own posts is quite amusing. Do you get paid for this?

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Anonymous wrote:Does Curie offer Summer classes?

Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses. We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting. We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp. There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.

Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.

We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.

About how many total kids go to Curie?

Curie has multiple locations as well as online classes. They dont publish counts but likely few hundreds.

One year they had over 100 admits to TJ so obviously that many. But could the number be close to 1000 8th graders?

I have a feeling many of those kids would get in without thus program. At the end of the day it's just like taking a practice SAT test. Eventually you have to also keep up in class.

Well no. Obviously they would not have - that was one of the reasons they changed the admissions test. Did they do fine once they got in? Probably. But no, without the specific prep directed at strategies for answering specific test questions, they would not have gotten in

That's why I think the new test is so clever. It's much less hackable (cheatable).

I've taught at Kaplan and Princeton Review and there is no secret ingredient in the secret ingredient soup. You can learn all the test taking techniques in a 2 week course, the rest of it is what can more accurately be described as learning. Maybe some reinforcement but there not 2 years worth of material on how to take standardized tests. Literally, less than 10 hours of "test taking strategies and techniques" and most of that 10 hours would be reinforcement.

What they have now is certainly less hackable because it's almost random.

The word you're looking for is subjective. Which burns because how can you control that?!? You just apply and see what happens, like everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

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It appears you are not familiar with the current diversity at TJ. We are first-generation German immigrants, and our DD interacts with peers of various ethnic backgrounds, including Russian, Chinese, Indian, and West Indies, in a multifaceted manner reminiscent of the cultural exchange experiences one might hope for in college with international students. Her circle of close friends, which began with TJ freshman projects like iBET, 8th-period clubs, and lacrosse team, has flourished with mutual cultural learning and collective participation in monthly cultural festival celebrations. Just this month, we all volunteered and celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year, and we are now preparing for the Indian festival of colors, among others.

We were also misinformed by racists who said TJ is all Asian Americans. As the principal mentioned, the last year class of students represented ethnicities from 40 plus countries, of which about 8 are Asian countries. Racists who tend to be weak in World Geography narrow down their focus to just Asian Americans, when there are two to three dozen other ethnicities ranging from Africa, Caribbean including West Indies, Latin America, North America, Europe, and Australia.

There is a difference between having one or two of a race, and having the majority of the class be one race.

Most schools in Virginia are majority white. Most schools in America are majority white.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how often this poster brings up this Curie and TJ thing.

Ultimately though, even if this ridiculous fairytale were true, the admissions response was not to fix the testing process but instead remove testing almost entirely.

People also forget that there were two other tests, but those are gone as well.

The unnecessary reference to "conservatives" reveals what this is really about for them.

It is worth noting that initially, this was a necessity because under COVID-19 protocols at the time, it wasn't realistic to ask 3,000 applicants to sit for a proctored exam during the worst phase of infections and deaths. This would have had to happen in January or February of 2021 and there was no way it would have worked.

I actually would have been fine with maintaining some testing structure - the existence of the tests wasn't the problem, it was their use as a gatekeeping element. A student under the previous system could have scored in the 99th percentile on both the Quant-Q and the ACT Aspire Science, but if they scored in the 74th percentile on the Aspire Reading, they'd be ineligible to be semifinalists. That process was broken too.

There's nothing wrong with testing as long as it's used as a data point amongst many others in a holistic admissions process and cannot be used by outsiders as evidence of racism in the process. Unfortunately, that's precisely what happens when parents of students whose strongest metric is their exam scores claim that admissions officers are dinging their kids on personality scores because of race - when it's actually their personality.

But they threw out testing. Fine. Now no one can leverage that advantage. But then they punished kids for what their parents do for a living, so instead of equalizing the advantage they just shifted it to another group of kids.

And even further, the lack of differentiation of curriculum in middle school, maybe norm’s for each county, also punished kids who take more rigorous workloads.

They didn’t even consider base schools when assigning their 1.5% to AAP centers.

They achieved their goal. But the results coming in also confirm the critics concern.

DP. No students were punished for what happened. Nor were students punished who want to go to TJ, no matter how much you complain on their behalf.

Yeah penalized in the admissions process is more accurate.

Sounds like you may not be familiar with the current admissions process. No punishment, no penalization.

Some kids receive points because they get free lunch. Kids whose parents make a certain amount of money don’t. Seems like a penalty that is out of a kids control.

Look at the admitted students. It doesn't help much - but those students are no longer totally locked out of the admissions process as they were before.

It's helped a ton. TJ used to be 2% free/reduced lunch. It's incoming classes are closer to 12% free/reduced lunch.

Iow, didn't help much...

That's a significant difference.

TJ used to be the richest school in the state, now there are several schools with lower populations of free/reduced lunch kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.

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Anonymous wrote:"A lot of these folks X" -> stereotyping a whole race based on experiences with a very small number -> racist.

If you got mugged by an African-American, would you go around talking about how black people are thugs?

DP. The person above is not stereotyping an entire race with that comment.

The fact that there are a large number of upper-middle class and "wealthy" Asians who are attempting to protect their prior privileged access to an exceptional academic opportunity says nothing about Asians more broadly.

The fact that by and large, they are not publicly joined by members of other races (except occasionally by people who are married to Asians acting in the self interest of their biracial children or Asian stepchildren) is what permits the person above to refer to the group as "Asian".

It is Asians who are making this argument publicly, but it is far from all Asians.

There is a school similar to TJ in NYC where they also tried to change the admissions criteria for similar reasons. The school was almost 80% asian and they talked about how asian families were buying their way into the school. Then it was pointed out that asians have a higher poverty rate than blacks or hispanics in NYC because they are all immigrants. Most of the asian students were on free/reduced lunch, a higher propiortion than the school in general which was about 40% free/reduced lunch. Money has nothing to do with it, it's all about race.

If money is what gets you into tj, there would have been more white kids. White people in northern virginia are wealthier than asians and yet the biggest absolute increase in population under the new admissions process was among white students.

It is clear that some parents want their kids to get great opportunities but don't necessarily want their kids to stress out and bust their ass to earn them.

Counter-point: the previous admissions process was incentivizing behavior that took "stressing out" and "busting your ass" to a deeply unhealthy level for many students, who would then get in to TJ and crash hard. It wouldn't appear that they were crashing hard because of the sheer volume of external support they were receiving, but the evidence came in the form of self-harming behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.

I was at my older ones HS Basketball game and didnt see any Asian American students? Where is equity, I had to wonder!

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.

I saw some URM students but the pool of accepted students more or less tracks the applicant pool and a lot of URM students don't apply to TJ. TJ is ~50% asian but that's because the applicant pool is about 50% asian.

https://www.fcag.org/TJHSSTClassof2025AdmissionsPressRelease.pdf