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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD got waitlisted, [b]non-feeder middle school[/b], 3.96 gpa, geometry honors. Honestly, we think she will do much better at her base school, and she agrees too. [/quote]

What’s a non-feeder MS? Don’t all schools have a quota?[/quote]

All schools have a quota now because there were 4 schools that dominated TJ admissions, Carson, Cooper, Longfellow, and Rocky Run sent well over half the class to TJ with some schools sending no students. The 1.5% quote was introduced to make sure that kids from every MS, who met the minimum qualifications, would be able to attend. There are schools that don’t fill their quotas every year, so the four feeders still send the majority of kids but the number of kids they send dropped by about 1/3.

Quotas were introduced at the same time as the new admin rules, to include the Algebra 1 requirement and the weights for IEPs and FARMs status. The hope is that the new process will increase the number of under represented minorities attending TJ. The Title 1 HS tend to have far fewer kids in Geometry in 8th grade, while the feeder schools tend to have at least 1 class of Algebra 2. [/quote]

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