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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regret that TJ was opted for in 9th based on senior year college rejections or acceptances?[/quote]

Current TJ parent, we are extremely worried. Sometimes I feel my daughter would have been better with base school.[/quote]
Entire bottom half of TJ class parents share this feeling, especially from non-stem oriented middle schools.  FCPS is doing a real disservice to uninformed parents by not being clear about whether their students are truly ready for TJ-level rigor and by downplaying how many years ahead the top half of the class already is in core subjects from day one. It’s hard to understand the logic behind admitting students with such widely different stem knowledge levels into the same class, especially when the course plans for the top and bottom halves end up being so different never sharing same classrooms. Yet, when it comes to college admissions, those students are still compared against each other, which clearly puts the students of uninformed parents  at a disadvantage, even with night after night of long study hours with no real GPA improvement.  [/quote]

The bottom third of TJ kids would probably have been better off staying at their base school.
Parents have no real way of telling without an objective measure like a test.[/quote]

Where are TJ students going to college if they are between bottom 40% and 66% in GPA? [/quote]
The 40th percentile to 66th percentile?  Probably somewhere between VT and W&M.

If you mean 33rd percentile to the 40th percentile, I would think their targets ware somewhere around VT, Perdue engineering, Penn State engineering, Pitt STEM, Basically stem somewhere that doesn't have a sexy name but has a good program and probably a decent football team.[/quote]

The schools are fine…but the perception of those schools by the kids themselves after enduring TJ is what is difficult to accept.[/quote]

?
VT engineering and Perdue engineering are really strong. [/quote]

The schools are fine but I don’t know if those kids would be happy with them. [/quote]

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