+1. I don’t understand why people believe it helps. TJ kids with a 4.3 and 1600 struggle to get into UVA. At your base school, it would be a safety school for your kid. |
My kid is at TJ - new admissions process. He says cheating is rampant. Kids take pictures of exam problems and share with others who have not yet taken the exam. A whole group of kids have As just based on cheating. Its common knowledge to all - even the administration - but they just turn a blind eye |
Of course, admit lower math students and leave them no choice but to cheat. This was happening before admissions change and after change it grew exponentially. |
Yet, an envious base school parent cant stop talking about TJ. |
PP was right about the admissions struggle. If you have a kid at TJ, feel free to look at the stats for yourself in Naviance. |
New poster.
I was looking at Naviance for UVA today and it was a sea of red marks at anything under 4.3 GPA. SAT scores do not seem to have much impact. Is this common at other HS as well for UVA? Or do they have lower cut offs? It seems they drew a clear line at 4.3 GPA and anything below from TJ is an auto reject. However, the Naviance data is just for one year I think. Is this also true in the past? |
They need to report them. It gets put on their record and they will not get into a 4 year college. |
Cheating happens in each grade and admin knows about it well. Some students even brought the testing questions directly to their teachers asking for answer keys before the tests and were caught by teachers.
The cheating activities have been reported to admin many times and they just ignore given the large group of students involved. I heard those students have one big group in discord or facebook(?)
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Basketball comment |
I'm african american and my child plays basketball year round. It's is a popular sport in NoVa. What's your problem? |
I'd like to see a second STEM magnet high school as well as a high standard of academic excellence for admissions. In other words, not to allow all who "demand" to attend, but the qualified who have to be cut out because of class limits and the new admission process. Also, it would be a huge plus to have the long bus rides/school day closer to a normal commute. |
Of course, they will never do. The ranking and test scores of that school will be a huge embarrassment for their equity politics. |
Stop Yapping. |
Or they can just rename one of the bottom school to TJ 2 |
Aaron Burr |