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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the poster whose kids went to TJ. My point is APS did give my kids a solid MS experience, otherwise they wouldn’t have made the TJ cut -the elementary experience was not bad -but we did supplement because our kids were math oriented and we could afford to give them a little extra, not a lot, though, but enough they got into higher level classes in middle school. So, not a bad APS experience. Quite honestly, I felt that elementary was more about the social aspect of growing up than about a “rigorous academic” experience. I am glad we didn’t push them early in life, except support the areas they liked. Things seem more competitive now, though, good luck to all of you. [/quote]

Arlington has a certain number of seats and those seats are filled by kids from Arlington MS. Your kids were competing with other Arlington kids, not FCPS or Loudoun MS kids. If they did well at TJ that is a different story but they did not have to compete against anyone other then APS MS kids for admission. [/quote]

The allocation by MS is a recent change to the admissions process. Prior to that, kids were all competing against each other and APS had a max # of admissions. They weren’t evaluated separately. They didn’t always have the max # each year, it depended on the applicants.  
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The PP point was your kids maybe were prepared by APS standard in MS (and you enriched in elementary which I suspect was a larger part), they just had to compete against other APS MS students for the APS TJ slots. So you really don’t know if the preparation was really that good or just TJ is good at leveling from a diverse income class (which I’m sure they are). Fewer parents enrich in APS at all; that’s why all the AOPS etc are not in Arlington, so you had little competition. APS parents are known as more chill, more sports focused that Fairfax where you have TJ prep academies like Sunshine. [/quote]

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