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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]TJ has the highest SAT score[/b], best college acceptance for a public school, receives the most amount of scholarship and has the best overall academic teams such as quizbowl, ModelUN, debate in the country. [/quote]

+1 and small correction - TJ has the highest average SAT scores by a wide margin. About 200 points higher than national average and about 100 points higher than FCPS average. That means the bottom 10% at TJ does as good as the top 10% at base schools, and these kids probably are better at base school. That seems to be contention here by the naysayers, focusing on a small minoroty and arguing they are better off at base school, which almost everyone can agree to. [/quote]

TJ's average SAT score last year was 1503/1600 likely highest in the country:  https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/TJHSST%20Profile%202017-18.pdf[/quote]

Wow.  Over 300 points higher than FCPS average and nearly 500 points higher than national average.[/quote]

And yet some delusional fool keeps posting that this is the year TJ is finally going to be shutdown as a magnet and converted to a neighborhood school.  TJ is a powerful symbol of what FCPS wants people to think they are doing right—providing a world class education to some of the brightest minds in the country.  Now, we can certainly debate the perception vs reality. But every time TJ tops a list for SAT scores or has a Siemens or Regneron winner or gets one of the national physics or Bio olympics Team, FCPS issues a press release and basks in the glow. People will overlook a lot if you have one school with over 100 NMSFs. [/quote]

TJ had 145 National Merit Semifinalists this year--again the most of any HS in the country.  If you listened to the VA Senate committee debate the merits of changing TJ's admissions policies, it was clear that both Dems and Republicans held it up as a huge success and essentially why would you want to mess with it (here's the link for anyone who wants to watch it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIsiJ-5oUeY).  TJ is not going away anytime soon.    [/quote]

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