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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Currently have a kid at TJ as a freshman. Took no prep classes, and I think that's a pro. Unless the writing skill is incredibly lacking, taking minimal outside prep is great to keep their responses genuine. In terms of the top 1.5%, [b]I would say the GPA is of least concern[/b]. I've seen my kid's classmates get in with B's and A-'s. [/quote] Then what determines the top 1.5%, if not GPA?[/quote]

There are weights for kids who live under the poverty line, FARMs, English Language Learners, and IEPs. After that no one knows how they score the essays. I would assume, and this is a pure assumption, that they take all the kids that would fall into the top 1.5%, identical GPAs, and look at the applications. The top 1.5% are then the kids who have the highest application scores based on essays, and the weighted categories.

The process has led to an increase in the number of FARMs kids accepted at TJ, ironically the group that saw the biggest increase were poor Asian families, so it is hard to say that the process is racially biased. The open selection process for the remaining open slots is less easily understood. I would guess that the number of kids who meet the minimum criteria at the non-traditional feeders is far lower then people on this board think it would be, the Algebra 1 H SOL scores show that those schools have a far smaller number of candidates to even pull from. Think 30 or less, so that the bigger mix up has been who is selected from the traditional feeders where you have a far larger percentage of the population who complete Algebra 1 in 8th grade and will meet the minimum requirements. The type of student coming out of Longfellow, Carson and the like is looking different because there are kids who don't have Geometry being selected from those schools were in the past every kid would have had Geometry and decent number Algebra 2. [/quote]

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