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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

Offers made to "academically wealthy feeders" (schools with most advanced STEM students):
    Carson Middle School - 48
    Cooper Middle School - 25
    Longfellow Middle School - 48
    Rocky Run Middle School - 22

The term “academically wealthy feeders” is used by certain posters on this forum, with a tone of envy, to describe top-ranked middle schools that consistently produce a large number of hardworking, advanced STEM students, and FCPS proudly mentions them in the TJ offers news releases.  [/quote]

That happen to have lower FRE % than other middle schools. 
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The “Academically Wealthy Feeder” middle schools for the most part have more students in the AAP Program (students identified by FCPS as academically advanced).

These are the middle schools with 10 or more admits to TJ for the class of 2029 showing the percent of students at the school that are designated level IV AAP.

Cooper - 52% AAP Level IV (25 admits)
Kilmer - 51% AAP Level IV (13 admits)
Longfellow - 64% AAP Level IV (48 admits)
Rocky Run - 54% AAP Level IV (22 admits)
Frost - 45% AAP Level IV (19 admits)
Lake Braddock - 41% AAP Level IV (17 admits)
Katherine Johnson - 32% AAP Level IV (14 admits)
Carson - 32% AAP Level IV (48 admits)**

**Carson - has a lower percent of Level IV AAP students, but has 709 8th graders this year (the 2nd largest 8th grade class in the county) & typically has the largest number of students applying to TJ.  Carson would have more AAP 8th graders than Cooper/Rocky Run based on 8th grade class size.

It makes sense that schools with the highest number of Advanced Academic students would have the most acceptances.  It also makes sense that schools with the more students applying would have more acceptances.

Schools with the lowest percent of students in Level IV AAP:

Poe - 9%
Whitman - 13%
Liberty - 20%
Hayfield - 21%
Key - 22%
Stone - 25%
Holmes - 26%

Schools that were allocated 10 students as part of the 1.5%, but had less than 10 students accepted:
Robinson
Sandburg
Irving

This means that these schools didn’t have at least 10 students that applied to TJ with the minimum qualifications to be accepted (Algebra I Honors by 8th grade and a 3.5 overall GPA).

The other 15 FCPS middle schools with less than 10 students admitted also likely had only a small number of qualified students applying to TJ.

People can keep complaining about “Wealthy Feeder Middle Schools” always having so many students accepted, but the true reason that these schools have so many students accepted even without the so called “test cheating” is because these schools have MORE STUDENTS APPLYING.  The schools have more students eligible to apply & actually applying, that is why more students are accepted.

TJ admissions committee, even with all of the changes to admissions based on “equity” can’t admit 48 students to the other schools because they don’t have enough students applying!!!!!!!!

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Which is why we look at the acceptance [u]RATE[/u], not just the absolute numbers.

For the class of 2024: 
[img]https://i.ibb.co/Rk5pgk00/wealth-pool.png[/img]

The wealthier the school, the higher the chance of getting into the pool and ultimately being accepted. 
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The cutoff score on Quant Q to make it to the pool for the class of 2024 was 50/100.  Any student who couldn’t score a 50 (even without prep) clearly wasn’t prepared for an academically rigorous STEM school.

Please read through this document to see all of the things done over the years to try to “improve” diversity at TJ that have all failed.  [/quote]

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