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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the top 1.5 percent at each school are guaranteed admission?

Then they look at the rest to fill the class?[/quote]

They will increase the entering classes to 550 kids.

There are about 14000 8th grade students at the FCPS middle/secondary schools.  1.5% of that number is 210 students.  These are the top 1.5% at each middle/secondary school based on the "holistic review," which includes GPA, the problem-solving exercise, the portrait sheet and the "experience factors."  This is not the top 1.5% of TJ applicants at each middle school as would have been determined in prior years.  So that means as many as 12 kids guaranteed at Carson (the middle school with the most 8th graders) down to as few as 3 kids at Holmes (the middle school with the fewest 8th graders).

Assume based on the presentation materials that 165 seats are set aside for students from other participating jurisdictions (Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince Williams).  That gets you up to 375 students.

That would leave another 175 seats for Fairfax County students, attending public or private schools, who'd be part of the same county-wide pool and again evaluated under the "holistic" approach.  Whether most of those seats are filled by kids who attend the middle schools that have traditionally sent the most kids to TJ depends upon how the new "holistic" factors are evaluated.

It will clearly be a much more subjective process than in the past.  [/quote]

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