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[quote=Anonymous]If a school has 400 students, 6 kids will be offered spots if they meet the minimum 3.5 GPA and are at least taking honors Algebra 1, honors Science, and one or the other of honors English/Social Studies (or be a young scholars student).  They only look at 7th grade GPA and first semester of 8th grade.  The six students have to have filled out the application and then taken the “test” yesterday; the 4 essays on student portrait skills and 1 problem solving essay.  If more than 6 students at that particular middle school applied they will be assessed against the other students from their middle school for those 6 spots.  Whoever had the highest points based on GPA, SPS, and PSE (plus experience factor bonus points for FARMS status, ELL status, or IEP status).

TJ admissions no longer cares if a student is taking Honors Algebra I or AP Pre Calculus in 8th grade (they don’t look what math class a student is taking).  What matters the most is if the student writes better essays (or has one or more experience factors that boost their scores).

For the 1.5% it helps if the middle school is not an AAP center school.  Students at AAP middle schools have the lowest likelihood of being in the 1.5% and would be better off staying at their base middle school (at least for 8th grade).

After the 1.5% per middle school is allotted, the remainder of the seats go to the students with the highest overall scores (SOL pass rates, math class taken, MAP scores are not considered).  It helps more to be a better writer than STEM student for TJ admissions.[/quote]

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