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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are discussing with DC about TJ application. At the TJ admission information session, students asked about the admission criteria. The lady answered that all applications would go through a holistic review. My current 8th grader knows some students who applied for TJ last school year. He knows them by taking the same class or doing the same club activities. Among the student he knows who got admitted, quite a few weren't strong in math and science, but strong in writing instead. Several students who were not strong in either STEM or writing also got admitted including someone who is a continuous free rider in group work. Surprisingly, some students who earned good rank in math competition and Scioly, science bowl didn't get in. 
DC is strong in math and science. After watching TJ student's Vlog, as parents, we kinda think that DC might be a good fit to TJ. But DC seems not very motivated to apply for TJ. He is passionate in STEM and has perfect GPA. We tried to persuade him to apply. But based on what he observed, he is still hesitating to apply because of the  the ambiguous process and result. 
Does anyone know what type of students TJ are looking for. How does TJ decide whether a student should be admitted? How exactly does the "holistic" process work?[/quote]

They admit the very top students from each school.[/quote]

You have a strange way of defining top. Once the GPAs qualify a student, they are discarded. The test scores end up bunched. The differentiator is experience factors which are ELL, SPED, FARMS.  [/quote]

So if 200 kids from a school apply and all have 4.0 and half of those in Algebra 2 and other in Geometry and all take test and 20 all get same scores, who will be the “top 1.5%” and who decides that? Does the “top 1.5%” go back to MS or does Gatehouse decide that? Assuming 1.5% would be 10 students, how does the ranking get weighted? If click all 3 experience factors is that the absolute top and then anyone who clicks 2 factors and then 1 factor and then would it go by student in algebra 2 and then the one in geometry? It’s the 1.5% ranking that I don’t get for schools with so many kids applying, almost guaranteed to have many kids with exact same scores- so when that happens, how are those kids ranked to get the 1.5%?[/quote]

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