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.

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.

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

Just because you have no answer doesn’t mean the point is invalid. You’re running out of rhetorical cheap tricks.

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Anonymous wrote:After admissions change, apparently students are no longer tested in middle school math, science and English? I hear they are given just one problem to solve, and asked to write character essays. And that's it. How can they evaluate and differentiate applicant skills with just one problem? Even elementary school math tests have more than one problem on a quiz.

There is one moderately difficult math question. Last year it was one of those "if a train leaves chicago at 2 pm" type questions.
They end up with something approximating a cross section of the applicant pool.
A lot of students return to their base school.
If you look at the demographics of the graduating class, it is still more diverse than in previous COVID years but not nearly as diverse as the freshman classes.

before and even after admissions change, the top half with higher GPA and rigorous courses is still dominated by same ethnicity. Diversity is all in lower half. Why?

This is true at many schools.
Now it is true at TJ too.

This is a democracy and SCOTUS refused to hear the case.
Just like we tell other people to study harder, I would tell asians, get more political.
Once you are politically relevant, your children will be too.

Getting more political may or may not be a good idea - but better reading comprehension would definitely be!

Asians are still the largest demographic and the majority of TJ students and the largest beneficiaries of the changes were low-income Asians. Nevertheless, admissions reflect applications and applications reflect interest. The various demographics groups were admitted within 1% or 2% point difference which indicates the race-blind process is indeed race blind. Bottom line is this program has greater appeal for Asians. Other groups don't appear to be as keen on it.

Check your math.

Asian 19%
Black 14% (5% lower)
Multiracial/Other* 13% (6% lower)
Hispanic 21%
White 17%

The numbers that I saw and were posted here showed a range of 17%-21%. Your numbers appear to be different.

Do we have applicant demographics for any year after class of 2025?
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem

Hispanic 21.02%
Asian 19.47%
White 16.94%
Black 14.33%
Other* 13.11%

Applicant ethnic split is a closely guarded secret since admission change. The concern is it would reveal higher acceptance rate for certain ethnic groups versus Asian American students.

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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.

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

A school that is gradually losing its pull is just a program, not a magnet.

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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.

TJ has a totally different curriculum to say that it's offered at other schools is just wrong

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

Facts cannot be denied. Sure, there is diversity in the beginner TJ Math 1 &2 since placement is "given", but post AP TJ Math classes continue to be all Asian Americans where placement has to be "earned" on student's own merit.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

Facts cannot be denied. Sure, there is diversity in the beginner TJ Math 1 &2 since placement is "given", but post AP TJ Math classes continue to be all Asian Americans where placement has to be "earned" on student's own merit.

No one is taking TJ Math 1.

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MS Algebra1 students are placed in RS1 and TJ Math 1.

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/node/1876

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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.

I have a kid there too and it's not really a lottery. Using a battery of essays to pick students for a STEM school is a bit like picking a basketball team based on batting average but you are still likely to get good athletes. I mean we still see a disproportionate number of NMSF in FCPS coming from TJ.
But the bottom of the class is unprepared for TJ. One fix might be to keep the preferences and the 1.5% but start testing again so that you get the smartest kids from each school.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

They don't care about the bottom line, they care about the top line. The headlines saying that under-represented minorities continue to be under-represented hurts their feelings.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

What this is saying is that you have a system that subjects asians to a merit filter and others to a skin color filter.

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The school board now is different. You could petition the new school board to revisit the admissions process.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

What this is saying is that you have a system that subjects asians to a merit filter and others to a skin color filter.

Yes, but you don't have that. That's not what the admissions process is.

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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.

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

Magnet school that screens Asian American students based on merit, but others based on diversity experience factors. How will the bottom hundred students ever be able to catch up to the top hundred Asian American peers who are already advanced in all stem areas?

This is gobbledygook. There's no response to make to something like this.

What this is saying is that you have a system that subjects asians to a merit filter and others to a skin color filter.

Yes, but you don't have that. That's not what the admissions process is.

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Agree with PP. Gobbledygook.