TJ sports recruiting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In terms of time commitment, sports at TJ tends to favor the academically advanced students, who often participate throughout all four years, but not as a potential athletic recruit. While many students try out sports during freshman year, quite a few quit by junior year. Some students give up on hopes of improving their GPA, but stay involved with sports for physical and recreational benefits. There are many academically average students who stay involved with sports to enhance their college application profiles.

If a student is serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit, TJ as a stem school is not an ideal place to be in. Base schools have better options and offer academic flexibility with a lower minimum GPA requirement and lighter coursework.

The entirety of the above is basically untrue and betrays a lack of understanding of the dynamics within TJ athletics.

The above poster indicated that quite a few students quit by junior year - this is at the very least misleading. Athletic participation rates increase year over year at TJ as students recognize the advantages of being a part of the respective teams and witness their classmates navigating the process successfully. Some do quit - a huge chunk of that is self-selection out of the process because they either get cut for Varsity teams or assume they will get cut.

Students of all academic levels at TJ have their college application profiles enhanced by participation in athletics - it's not just the "academically average" ones, whatever is meant by that.

And it's patently untrue that students serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit would be better served at a base school. Students choosing to attend TJ will almost always, especially in team sports, have a greater chance to compete at the Varsity level earlier at TJ than they would at their base school.

This is yet another example of a parent who is probably trying to encourage people to decline their offers of admission in order to improve their child's chances of being recalled off of the waitlist. Take these posters with a grain of salt.

The PP's writing is so stilted I suspect some troll ran things through ChatGTP for their own amusement. Why trolling about everyone dropping out of sports by junior year at TJ is so fun for some random person on the internet I cannot fathom.

Right? Just nonsense. But I suspect the motivation is to try to unearth any possible reason for folks to turn down the offer, probably with a little bit of racist "since they're Black they're probably interested in being a recruited athlete" crap.

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

Agree, but I don’t really get it. I mean do they hate the idea of disadvantaged kids going to TJ so much that they want to paint every successful TJ athlete as “undeserving” of being there?

Ad it’s so odd, because there are so many talented athletes at TJ who are also equally academically talented. I’ve known quite a few of them over the years, and this is going back a number of years, so the troll can’t blame the newer admissions process which they seem to be so irritated about.

Yes, they do.

I think you might be right but it really is crazy.

[Anonymous]

My kid graduated from TJ and I volunteered with the athletic boosters. They actually had a spreadsheet listing college athletic recruits out of TJ. The list started in the early 2000s and my kid graduated a couple of years ago. Schools included: Air Force,Army,Berkeley, Bowdoin,Brown,
Caltech,Carnegie Mellon,Case Western,Centre College
Chicago,Columbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Davidson, Delaware, Drexel,Duke, Emory,George Washington
Georgetown,Georgia Tech,Harvard,Harvey Mudd.
Johns Hopkins,Kentucky,Lehigh,McGill,MIT,
Navy,Northwestern,Oberlin,Penn,Penn State,Princeton
Purdue,Radcliffe,Stanford,Stevens Institute of Technology,Swarthmore,Tufts,U Miami,US Coast Guard Academy,UVA,Virginia Tech,Wabash,Washington U,
Wellesley,Western Washington University,
William & Mary and Yale.

So some kids are evidently capable of doing both high level academics and high level athletics I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from TJ and I volunteered with the athletic boosters. They actually had a spreadsheet listing college athletic recruits out of TJ. The list started in the early 2000s and my kid graduated a couple of years ago. Schools included: Air Force,Army,Berkeley, Bowdoin,Brown,
Caltech,Carnegie Mellon,Case Western,Centre College
Chicago,Columbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Davidson, Delaware, Drexel,Duke, Emory,George Washington
Georgetown,Georgia Tech,Harvard,Harvey Mudd.
Johns Hopkins,Kentucky,Lehigh,McGill,MIT,
Navy,Northwestern,Oberlin,Penn,Penn State,Princeton
Purdue,Radcliffe,Stanford,Stevens Institute of Technology,Swarthmore,Tufts,U Miami,US Coast Guard Academy,UVA,Virginia Tech,Wabash,Washington U,
Wellesley,Western Washington University,
William & Mary and Yale.

So some kids are evidently capable of doing both high level academics and high level athletics I guess.

The narrative that your athletic experience at TJ will be somehow "less than" what you'd get at your base school is complete nonsense, when in fact the opposite is true. It's a good thing that people are starting to realize this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from TJ and I volunteered with the athletic boosters. They actually had a spreadsheet listing college athletic recruits out of TJ. The list started in the early 2000s and my kid graduated a couple of years ago. Schools included: Air Force,Army,Berkeley, Bowdoin,Brown,
Caltech,Carnegie Mellon,Case Western,Centre College
Chicago,Columbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Davidson, Delaware, Drexel,Duke, Emory,George Washington
Georgetown,Georgia Tech,Harvard,Harvey Mudd.
Johns Hopkins,Kentucky,Lehigh,McGill,MIT,
Navy,Northwestern,Oberlin,Penn,Penn State,Princeton
Purdue,Radcliffe,Stanford,Stevens Institute of Technology,Swarthmore,Tufts,U Miami,US Coast Guard Academy,UVA,Virginia Tech,Wabash,Washington U,
Wellesley,Western Washington University,
William & Mary and Yale.

So some kids are evidently capable of doing both high level academics and high level athletics I guess.

The narrative that your athletic experience at TJ will be somehow "less than" what you'd get at your base school is complete nonsense, when in fact the opposite is true. It's a good thing that people are starting to realize this.

The less athletic students can have better athletic experience at TJ. The more athletic students can have good athletic experience anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

Yes, my child who went to TJ was also like this.

In general, it’s the brighter kids at TJ who can also do sports because they are smart enough that they don’t need to spend hours and hours studying to understand their work and they also don’t need outside tutors which many kids at TJ appear to need. You essentially have more hours in your day to get things done when you grasp and understand new information more quickly than other people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

What does that prove?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

Yes, my child who went to TJ was also like this.

In general, it’s the brighter kids at TJ who can also do sports because they are smart enough that they don’t need to spend hours and hours studying to understand their work and they also don’t need outside tutors which many kids at TJ appear to need. You essentially have more hours in your day to get things done when you grasp and understand new information more quickly than other people.

Tutors are being increasingly engaged now with drastic increase in Algebra 1 students?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

Yes, my child who went to TJ was also like this.

In general, it’s the brighter kids at TJ who can also do sports because they are smart enough that they don’t need to spend hours and hours studying to understand their work and they also don’t need outside tutors which many kids at TJ appear to need. You essentially have more hours in your day to get things done when you grasp and understand new information more quickly than other people.

Students in remedial do not have enough hours in the day to also do sports.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2.

Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics?

Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved.

Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have.

I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true.

OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands.

Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity."

This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype.

All of a sudden you bring the new admission policy into the equation and playing the discrimination card.
It is not likely that the majority of people come to TJ for the sports.
Nothing wrong with the statement that base schools offer more athletic options.
Students may choose base school because they have more time for sports.

I'm the person who you quoted.

I was a 2 season varsity athlete at TJ. I got my homework done in ~2 hours a night, no big deal.

Yes, my child who went to TJ was also like this.

In general, it’s the brighter kids at TJ who can also do sports because they are smart enough that they don’t need to spend hours and hours studying to understand their work and they also don’t need outside tutors which many kids at TJ appear to need. You essentially have more hours in your day to get things done when you grasp and understand new information more quickly than other people.

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[Anonymous]

I heard recruited athletes are the ones causing all the math remediation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard recruited athletes are the ones causing all the math remediation?

Recruited is only 5 or 6, if any. But remedial is over a hundred

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard recruited athletes are the ones causing all the math remediation?

Recruited is only 5 or 6, if any. But remedial is over a hundred

COVID did take a tool on these kids but I suspect things will eventually get back to normal.