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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of TJ student here. UVA has become a stretch for TJ students also. [b]UVA requires a 4.4 and above GPA. Getting that high a GPA at TJ is VERY HARD[/b]. Only top 25% are able to hit that GPA

(avg GPA at TJ is 3.8 to 4.2)[/quote]

This is true.  UVA and VT do not care about the rigor of TJ, they only care about higher GPA.  So if UVA or VT is your 1st choice, don't come to TJ, stay at your base school and get [b]unweighted[/b] 4.0 GPA.  So many high performing kids from TJ were rejected outright at UVA and VT last year because of their unweighted GPA that is not 4.0.[/quote]

Literally no part of this post is true.

Here's the reality of the relationship between TJ and UVA:

Back in the earlier days of TJ, it was a reasonable expectation of most kids that they could rely on getting into UVA as long as they were somewhat successful in high school and didn't have any glaring red flags on their transcript - like a B- or a C in a full-year class or a complete lack of any AP heft. There were years when TJ sent over 130 students to UVA in one class of less than 400 graduates.

As years went by, that began to change because 1) UVA, like most schools, started receiving more and more applications from higher caliber of students and 2) UVA has always valued well-roundedness in its applicants and under the leadership of Dr. Glazer, TJ students [i]by design[/i] became significantly less well-rounded and therefore less interesting to UVA. That's when you started to see TJ kids with objectively strong but fairly one-dimensional resumes getting turned down while students with perhaps lesser GPAs and board scores - even of the same demographic - would be admitted.

Nowadays, it is a significant accomplishment for a TJ student to get into UVA, not because UVA has changed for the better, but because for many years TJ changed for the worse.[/quote]

This.  Except for the top 10-20% of TJ students, the rest are good at memorizing and regurgitating on paper.  [/quote]

Radical change in admissions system will do that.[/quote]

DP.  I realize you can't help yourself but what PP was referring to were students admitted under the previous admissions system.  I don't know if they're correct but they are implying that the new admissions process will fix a big problem at TJ.  Maybe it will create another, that remains to be seen, but it will correct that problem.  [/quote]

75% of the students were admitted under the NEW system so the vast majority of the students were admitted under the radically changed system. [/quote]

Reread the post.  Or not, just continue to babble away.  You're only talking to yourself anyway.[/quote]

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