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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe that TJ should either have continued with the old system, which was in place for years and emphasized objective assessments, or gone to a pure lottery among students meeting threshold requirements.

The new system is highly offensive - it commits ever more FCPS resources to ever more subjective assessments of applicants to a single school and requires heavy vetting by lawyers and FCPS officials.  As a result, it diverts more Gatehouse resources and School Board attention away from other schools and towards TJ.

It is past time for TJHSST to be shut down and for TJ to return to use as a community school. [/quote]
The old system was not objective.  Most of the scoring was based on the interpretation of the SIS and recommendations once passed the first round (not a very high bar).[/quote]

What?   Not a high bar?  It knocked out two thirds of applicants and was cited as the reason URM do not get into TJ.[/quote]

Indeed.  About 1/3 of applicants made it to the semifinal round, and about 1/2 of the semifinalists got admitted.  Here is what is used to take to make it to make it to the semifinal round:

Semifinalist Selections:

In order to qualify for the semifinalist pool, a student must have:
- Overall GPA of at least 3.0 (based upon final marks for 7th grade and 1st quarter 8th grade in core subjects)
- Mathematical Reasoning- at least 50th percentile on Quant-Q
- Reading- at least 75th percentile on Aspire
- Science- at least 75th percentile on Aspire
AND one of the following:
-Mathematical Reasoning- at least 75th percentile on Quant-Q
or
-Science- at least 90th percentile on Aspire[/quote]

It is true that the overwhelming majority of applicants from underrepresented groups did not make the semifinalist pool based on their exam scores in all years. It's important to remember that those are all graded on a curve, and therefore if any student's score is artificially inflated by targeted exam prep, the entire pool gets skewed.[/quote]

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