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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.  [/quote]

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.[/quote]

This may be true for past students, but affirmative action in college admissions is no longer allowed.  Admissions committees for colleges are not allow to use race as a benefit for students anymore.  Now students in the bottom 20-30% will be looked at the same no matter their race.[/quote]
Many Black students graduating in the top 10% of their class from base schools across Virginia and the rest of the country have a stronger chance of gaining admission to T20 and Ivy League schools than the Black students graduating in the bottom 20% at TJ.[/quote]

There are black students graduating top 10% at TJ that got rejected from T20.[/quote]

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