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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the poster whose kids went to TJ. My point is APS did give my kids a solid MS experience, otherwise they wouldn’t have made the TJ cut -the elementary experience was not bad -but we did supplement because our kids were math oriented and we could afford to give them a little extra, not a lot, though, but enough they got into higher level classes in middle school. So, not a bad APS experience. Quite honestly, I felt that elementary was more about the social aspect of growing up than about a “rigorous academic” experience. I am glad we didn’t push them early in life, except support the areas they liked. Things seem more competitive now, though, good luck to all of you. [/quote]

Arlington has a certain number of seats and those seats are filled by kids from Arlington MS. Your kids were competing with other Arlington kids, not FCPS or Loudoun MS kids. If they did well at TJ that is a different story but they did not have to compete against anyone other then APS MS kids for admission. [/quote]

The allocation by MS is a recent change to the admissions process. Prior to that, kids were all competing against each other and APS had a max # of admissions. They weren’t evaluated separately. They didn’t always have the max # each year, it depended on the applicants.  
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The PP point was your kids maybe were prepared by APS standard in MS (and you enriched in elementary which I suspect was a larger part),[b] they just had to compete against other APS MS students for the APS TJ slots[/b]. So you really don’t know if the preparation was really that good or just TJ is good at leveling from a diverse income class (which I’m sure they are). Fewer parents enrich in APS at all; that’s why all the AOPS etc are not in Arlington, so you had little competition. APS parents are known as more chill, more sports focused that Fairfax where you have TJ prep academies like Sunshine. [/quote]

It wasn’t a separate pool. 
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It is a separate pool. Kids in APS compete against kids in APS not kids in FCPS. There are a set number of seats that APS is allowed to fill. [/quote]

Not a separate pool. There is a max number of seats but the TJ admissions office doesn’t have to fill them. 
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There is a separate pool now and there was before the admissions protocol changed. APS had a certain number of seats it could fill. APS did not have to fill those seats. If those seats were not filled by APS, kids from the FCPS wait list filled those seats. APS kids have to meet the same admissions requirements. In the past that meant that they had to take the Quant test and score a certain level. They had to have teacher referrals, and whatever else was a part of the application process. Today that means they need to have completed Algebra 1 by the end of 8th grade, completed Honors Math and Science in 7th and 8th grade as well as one other core class. Kids have to have a 3.5 GPA. If there are more APS kids who apply and meet the admissions requirements, then selections are made to fill the APS seats. If there are not enough APS students who are interested in TJ and meet those qualifications, then the seats will be filled by FCPS kids on the wait list.

I am sure that plenty of APS kids attend TJ and are successful there. It is not like the standards are different for attending across the different Counties.

Kids who were not in AAP in FCPS can end up at TJ and they can be successful as well. AAP is not a requirement to do well at TJ. [/quote]

APS didn’t do the admissions. The TJ admissions group did and it wasn’t a separate pool before. Now it is. 
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