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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL more kids from McLean get into TJ than Langley.  So there.  LOL[/quote]

McLean has several hundred more kids than Langley (and Longfellow has several hundred more kids than Cooper) so that's no surprise.  Some admissions now are based purely on the size of the 8th grade middle school classes.  [/quote]

Sandberg is one of the biggest middle schools and West Potomac (and Mt Vernon since Sandberg is the AAP for Whitman) barely send anyone to TJ. [/quote]

Three of the four current classes at TJ have been admitted under the new system that included middle school quotas, with other students admitted from a general pool.

This year there are 22 kids living within Mount Vernon's boundaries attending TJ, and 29 living within West Potomac's boundaries.

Based on the middle school quotas alone, through this year, there would be about 30 kids at TJ coming from Sandburg and about 20 from Whitman, assuming students applied and accepted offers of admission to TJ.  That number (50) isn't too different from the combined 51 TJ students currently living within the West Potomac and Mount Vernon boundaries.  Presumably the number would increase next year with all four classes admitted under the new system.

Maybe that's not as big a change as the School Board anticipated when they changed the TJ admissions process, but as long as a substantial number of TJ kids get admitted from the general pool, rather than from the school-based quotas, the odds were that the families that found a way to get their kids into TJ under the old system would find a way to get their kids in under the new system.  If they want to change that, they could go to a system based entirely on middle school quotas, but then they would need to deal with the fact that this would add more kids to several already crowded high schools (Chantilly, McLean, and Oakton).  [/quote]

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