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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, yes they considered “experience factors” when coming up with the 1.5% so they were not focusing on academic merit but instead on increasing diversity from underrepresented groups.[/quote]

It’s really scary that a number of parents are reporting kids got in with just Algebra.  My kid’s year, the number of kids who didn’t have Geometry was probably single digits.  Even non-AP junior physics is Calc based at TJ, and even kids taking Calc junior year struggle first semester.  TJ’s model is world renowned. They literally host physics teachers from around the world and train them in how to use TJ’s physics curriculum. I personally only know of one kid who went through junior physics while taking Math 4/5 (as opposed to taking geometry or TJ Math over the summer) and they got a D with heavy tutoring and were rejected ED from WM.   Geosystems is required and assumes single variable Calc knowledge. So do several of the tech tracks and upper level CS.

My kid had to self teach basic Calc with Kahn Academy as summer homework before junior year as a requirement of physics.

Prior to this year, the only real reason they didn’t require Geometry was it wasn’t an option at some privates and some kids moving from OOS didn’t have access. Those kids were advised to take geometry over the summer.  From FCPS, very few kids got in with just A1. It’s really hard to do any of the upper level classes without Calculus junior year at the latest.

Why bring kids in who can’t do the upper level classes. [/quote]

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