TJ Admissions

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

If you don't know what TJ courses offers, please don't apply and save a space for someone who wants to be there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

DP. When you look at the declining performance of TJ students, the argument for maintaining TJ as a separate magnet gets weaker. Its main reason to exist now is simply to allocate seats “fairly” across the county, which begs the question as to why FCPS goes to the trouble of prioritizing students at one school above all others. If they were so bent out of shape over students at certain middle schools having a leg up to get into TJ, they ought to be at least as concerned with favoring TJ over the other high and secondary schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

DP. When you look at the declining performance of TJ students, the argument for maintaining TJ as a separate magnet gets weaker. Its main reason to exist now is simply to allocate seats “fairly” across the county, which begs the question as to why FCPS goes to the trouble of prioritizing students at one school above all others. If they were so bent out of shape over students at certain middle schools having a leg up to get into TJ, they ought to be at least as concerned with favoring TJ over the other high and secondary schools.

You sound clueless. All of your post is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

If you don't know what TJ courses offers, please don't apply and save a space for someone who wants to be there.

You are exactly why they changed the admissions process.

Kids shouldn’t be excluded from applying because their family is unfamiliar with TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

If you don't know what TJ courses offers, please don't apply and save a space for someone who wants to be there.

I think they're talking about the admissions process not the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

There are schools, where you couldn't fill a class for number theory. Or many of the other post calculus math classes. So they offer these classes online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

If you don't know what TJ courses offers, please don't apply and save a space for someone who wants to be there.

You are exactly why they changed the admissions process.

Kids shouldn’t be excluded from applying because their family is unfamiliar with TJ.

Frankly, it should be a little bit the opposite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

You are the one sounds bitter because TJ kids don't have college advantage, why should they?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

You are the one sounds bitter because TJ kids don't have college advantage, why should they?

I’m PP and I am not arguing they should. I have a kid there. No regrets. She has thrived in ways she would not have at our solid, good base HS because it is the right fit for her. Look, it’s largely a lottery now. I don’t get bitter every time someone wins the lottery just because I did not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

DP. When you look at the declining performance of TJ students, the argument for maintaining TJ as a separate magnet gets weaker. Its main reason to exist now is simply to allocate seats “fairly” across the county, which begs the question as to why FCPS goes to the trouble of prioritizing students at one school above all others. If they were so bent out of shape over students at certain middle schools having a leg up to get into TJ, they ought to be at least as concerned with favoring TJ over the other high and secondary schools.

You sound clueless. All of your post is nonsense.

You so want to keep hanging on to the prestige of a school that is obviously declining by every objective measure. At some point the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the application process now. I feel sick to my stomach. This is supposed to be a high school for science and technology. Yet there appears to be very little focus on foundational subjects like mathematics, and far more focus on subjective “experience factors” and “21st Century Skills”.

My kids still wants to apply but .barf.
I suppose I should encourage her to write a lot about being biracial, dad speaks another language, and currently being raised by single mom?

How competitive is her middle school? Whatever your personal opinion of the application process, that's the most important factor.

Middle school is ranked among the lowest. my question is how can they expect students from poorly ranked middle school to thrive at TJ and be among the best there, especially when they start off at a disadvantage?

The TJ has already started inflating the grades three years ago for the under-qualified.

They are increasing the curve but frankly it's a change that was a change they probably needed a long time ago.
The GPA differential between what these kids get at TJ and what they would have gotten at their base school was just too large.

Offering the same rigorous courses to base high school kids would give all students a fair chance, way better than giving privileged TJ kids inflated GPA.

Jeez. Bitter much?
Take a look at the T10 thread about TJ just now; it's not a big college advantage to be at the school.

DP. When you look at the declining performance of TJ students, the argument for maintaining TJ as a separate magnet gets weaker. Its main reason to exist now is simply to allocate seats “fairly” across the county, which begs the question as to why FCPS goes to the trouble of prioritizing students at one school above all others. If they were so bent out of shape over students at certain middle schools having a leg up to get into TJ, they ought to be at least as concerned with favoring TJ over the other high and secondary schools.

You sound clueless. All of your post is nonsense.

You so want to keep hanging on to the prestige of a school that is obviously declining by every objective measure. At some point the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.

It's a magnet school, not a prestige school. You are mistaken because you are working from the wrong starting point.

[Anonymous]

For students getting lottery offers based on school location and diversity considerations, how are Cs & Ds from TJ better than Bs & Cs from base high school for student well-being?