Reasons why one would not accept TJ offer?

[Anonymous]

You can do great at other schools besides TJHSST. McLean beat TJ at the state-wide Scholastic Bowl championship (Class 6) today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not wanting to be surrounded by myopic students solely focused on grades. I’ve heard some white students say it’s too Asian.

This statement is baseless and appears to be an attempt to disguise one's own hatred for Asian American students by falsely attributing it to White students.

TJ students, regardless of their ethnicities and different skin colors, hold each other in high regard and appreciate one another's intellectual abilities. While TJ students are undoubtedly focused on achieving academic excellence and demonstrating it with excellent grades, they also enjoy a vibrant extracurricular life with over a hundred clubs, dance performances, sports, and holiday celebrations. If you have doubts about your academic abilities, please dont come and stress yourself at TJ, and turn your life into a miserable mess. However, if you're confident in your academic skills and believe you can excel, you'll find like-minded peers at TJ who are eager to push boundaries and explore the extracurricular opportunities beyond academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not wanting to be surrounded by myopic students solely focused on grades. I’ve heard some white students say it’s too Asian.

This statement is baseless and appears to be an attempt to disguise one's own hatred for Asian American students by falsely attributing it to White students.

TJ students, regardless of their ethnicities and different skin colors, hold each other in high regard and appreciate one another's intellectual abilities. While TJ students are undoubtedly focused on achieving academic excellence and demonstrating it with excellent grades, they also enjoy a vibrant extracurricular life with over a hundred clubs, dance performances, sports, and holiday celebrations. If you have doubts about your academic abilities, please dont come and stress yourself at TJ, and turn your life into a miserable mess. However, if you're confident in your academic skills and believe you can excel, you'll find like-minded peers at TJ who are eager to push boundaries and explore the extracurricular opportunities beyond academics.

Sounds like mindless PR babble from someone who can’t stand that the appeal of TJ has been declining for years.

[Anonymous]

The decline of white CEOs in contrast to the rise of Chinese and India CEOs plots with TJ and other magnet school student profiles. It's not a coincidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If instate college like UVA is a priority, have your child stay back at base school, take rigorous AP courses and with little extra effort they could get all As and be in the top 10% in the class.

If you dont care about in-state, but prefer TJ education, be ready to accept Bs and Cs, even with long nights. Just accept that there will be other kids with straight As and much more rigorous coursework.

I keep seeing this statement on this board. What does it mean? Does UVA not like TJ students?

It means that UVa Admissions would rather have a top 10% student from a non-magnet HS than a bottom 50% student from TJ, if all other things were equal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The decline of white CEOs in contrast to the rise of Chinese and India CEOs plots with TJ and other magnet school student profiles. It's not a coincidence.

This is a silly post. You swung and missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If instate college like UVA is a priority, have your child stay back at base school, take rigorous AP courses and with little extra effort they could get all As and be in the top 10% in the class.

If you dont care about in-state, but prefer TJ education, be ready to accept Bs and Cs, even with long nights. Just accept that there will be other kids with straight As and much more rigorous coursework.

+1. If your kid doesn’t have a 1550 SAT and a 4.3+ weighted GPA they are not getting in to UVa. coming from TJ. At their base school, a 4.3 and 1550 easily gets you in UVa. and places like Cornell, John’s Hopkins, Duke, etc. Coming out of TJ with those stats gives you no chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If instate college like UVA is a priority, have your child stay back at base school, take rigorous AP courses and with little extra effort they could get all As and be in the top 10% in the class.

If you dont care about in-state, but prefer TJ education, be ready to accept Bs and Cs, even with long nights. Just accept that there will be other kids with straight As and much more rigorous coursework.

I keep seeing this statement on this board. What does it mean? Does UVA not like TJ students?

It means that UVa Admissions would rather have a top 10% student from a non-magnet HS than a bottom 50% student from TJ, if all other things were equal.

“If all things were equal.” Wrong - base school you can get into UVa with a 1300 SAT and 4.2 weighted GPA in an easier curriculum. A TJ kid with “equal” stats like that doesn’t get into UVa. Or Va Tech. You are judged against you school peers in admissions, not the applicant pool from your county at large.

[Anonymous]

2021 TJ Parent here:

Kids we know either did not accept offer or transferred back to base school because of:

Commute
Work load
College admissions perceptions
Band kids who did not want to do summer school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not wanting to be surrounded by myopic students solely focused on grades. I’ve heard some white students say it’s too Asian.

This statement is baseless and appears to be an attempt to disguise one's own hatred for Asian American students by falsely attributing it to White students.

TJ students, regardless of their ethnicities and different skin colors, hold each other in high regard and appreciate one another's intellectual abilities. While TJ students are undoubtedly focused on achieving academic excellence and demonstrating it with excellent grades, they also enjoy a vibrant extracurricular life with over a hundred clubs, dance performances, sports, and holiday celebrations. If you have doubts about your academic abilities, please dont come and stress yourself at TJ, and turn your life into a miserable mess. However, if you're confident in your academic skills and believe you can excel, you'll find like-minded peers at TJ who are eager to push boundaries and explore the extracurricular opportunities beyond academics.

Sounds like mindless PR babble from someone who can’t stand that the appeal of TJ has been declining for years.

Hmmm. admissions policy change was supposed to make it better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand every middle school will be given a few seats, but last year no one at our middle school accepted the offer. I could be mistaken, as I also heard one kid attended for a year, and returned to base high school. DC took the admissions test this month, and we think there is a good chance we will be made an offer. What I want to understand is why would one not accept a TJ offer? I hear everyone saying how much harder one has to study, but is it significantly more than what a student at base high school enrolled in all honors courses would need to study? How much time would be available to do sports? Trying to figure out if DC would be better off going to our high school with known friends and teammates, or tryout TJ, but definitely want to avoid the hassle of transferring if TJ isnt the right fit.

The lack of diversity is why my nephew declined.

feel sorry for your "nephew"
Diversity is why we accepted the offer. DC has made friends with kids with ethinic backgrounds from at least a dozen different countries - saudi arabia, china, sri lanka, south korea, india, philippines, bangladesh, afghanistan, malaysia, japan turkey, etc. In fact the principal at the orientation, made the crowd repeat "hello" in 15+ languages. Apparently, this year's class has kids speaking 40+ languages at home. wow!

Sorry but it's 80% Asian. That's the opposite of diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not wanting to be surrounded by myopic students solely focused on grades. I’ve heard some white students say it’s too Asian.

This statement is baseless and appears to be an attempt to disguise one's own hatred for Asian American students by falsely attributing it to White students.

TJ students, regardless of their ethnicities and different skin colors, hold each other in high regard and appreciate one another's intellectual abilities. While TJ students are undoubtedly focused on achieving academic excellence and demonstrating it with excellent grades, they also enjoy a vibrant extracurricular life with over a hundred clubs, dance performances, sports, and holiday celebrations. If you have doubts about your academic abilities, please dont come and stress yourself at TJ, and turn your life into a miserable mess. However, if you're confident in your academic skills and believe you can excel, you'll find like-minded peers at TJ who are eager to push boundaries and explore the extracurricular opportunities beyond academics.

Sounds like mindless PR babble from someone who can’t stand that the appeal of TJ has been declining for years.

Hmmm. admissions policy change was supposed to make it better?

Seems like people always figure out how to game things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If instate college like UVA is a priority, have your child stay back at base school, take rigorous AP courses and with little extra effort they could get all As and be in the top 10% in the class.

If you dont care about in-state, but prefer TJ education, be ready to accept Bs and Cs, even with long nights. Just accept that there will be other kids with straight As and much more rigorous coursework.

I keep seeing this statement on this board. What does it mean? Does UVA not like TJ students?

It means that UVa Admissions would rather have a top 10% student from a non-magnet HS than a bottom 50% student from TJ, if all other things were equal.

“If all things were equal.” Wrong - base school you can get into UVa with a 1300 SAT and 4.2 weighted GPA in an easier curriculum. A TJ kid with “equal” stats like that doesn’t get into UVa. Or Va Tech. You are judged against you school peers in admissions, not the applicant pool from your county at large.

Is this what people like to tell themselves these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand every middle school will be given a few seats, but last year no one at our middle school accepted the offer. I could be mistaken, as I also heard one kid attended for a year, and returned to base high school. DC took the admissions test this month, and we think there is a good chance we will be made an offer. What I want to understand is why would one not accept a TJ offer? I hear everyone saying how much harder one has to study, but is it significantly more than what a student at base high school enrolled in all honors courses would need to study? How much time would be available to do sports? Trying to figure out if DC would be better off going to our high school with known friends and teammates, or tryout TJ, but definitely want to avoid the hassle of transferring if TJ isnt the right fit.

The lack of diversity is why my nephew declined.

feel sorry for your "nephew"
Diversity is why we accepted the offer. DC has made friends with kids with ethinic backgrounds from at least a dozen different countries - saudi arabia, china, sri lanka, south korea, india, philippines, bangladesh, afghanistan, malaysia, japan turkey, etc. In fact the principal at the orientation, made the crowd repeat "hello" in 15+ languages. Apparently, this year's class has kids speaking 40+ languages at home. wow!

We were present at the event and were surprised when the Principal came prepared to lead the crowd in saying "hello" in so many languages spoken by student families. Despite the stereotype that the school was predominantly American Asian, she employed a simple technique to ensure everyone recognized the diverse range of ethnic backgrounds represented in the recent class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If instate college like UVA is a priority, have your child stay back at base school, take rigorous AP courses and with little extra effort they could get all As and be in the top 10% in the class.

If you dont care about in-state, but prefer TJ education, be ready to accept Bs and Cs, even with long nights. Just accept that there will be other kids with straight As and much more rigorous coursework.

I keep seeing this statement on this board. What does it mean? Does UVA not like TJ students?

It means that UVa Admissions would rather have a top 10% student from a non-magnet HS than a bottom 50% student from TJ, if all other things were equal.

“If all things were equal.” Wrong - base school you can get into UVa with a 1300 SAT and 4.2 weighted GPA in an easier curriculum. A TJ kid with “equal” stats like that doesn’t get into UVa. Or Va Tech. You are judged against you school peers in admissions, not the applicant pool from your county at large.

Va Tech wants to maintain its yield rate, and looks down on TJ applicants figuring they are a backup school.