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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the Admission Office (central office) do the evaluations? Are middle schools involved in any part of the decision making?[/quote]

This is my question too. Fair or unfair, the admission process should be transparent at least. Will students be notified of the score they get for essays? Is essay the only factor when identifying the top 1.5%?[/quote]

This is an honest question - what would be the value of transparency in the admissions process?

To me, there would be two effects:

1) an easier access point for parents to challenge when their kids aren't selected, which serves no one because you can't very well remove a kid you've already selected to make room for another;

2) an easier ability for parents to game the admissions process by narrowly tailoring their child's elementary and middle school years to serve the end of getting into TJ, which is also a terrible idea because it places a needless burden on kids and makes their admissions outcomes more dependent on parent priorities than student ability.

If anything, the process needs to be LESS transparent for the health of Northern Virginia's kids.[/quote]

The process would also have to do a better job of selecting top kids.[/quote]

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