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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year, TJ had 35.3% of the VA NMSF. This year, they only have 20.6% of the VA NMSF.

It's a huge drop, no matter how people try to spin things.  It should have been obvious to everyone that when you admit kids based on geographic diversity, essays, and experience factors rather than test scores, test scores will drop.  [/quote]

What are the FCPS percentages of VA semifinalists?[/quote]
FCPS (including TJ) had 56.5% of the VA semifinalists last year.  It has 48.6% of the semifinalists this year.  [/quote]

The [b]NMSF ratio of FCPS/VA [/b]hasn’t changed significantly, but the NMSF ratios of TJ/FCPS (67% and 63% in 2022 and 2023 vs. 42% in 2024) and TJ/VA (35.3% in 2023 vs. 20.6% in 2024) have decreased significantly. COVID and the learning loss caused by the pandemic are not valid excuses as they affected all FCPS schools.  In fact, the COVID positive rate at TJ was much lower than the rates in base schools.[/quote]

Cite on the VA numbers? [/quote]

They're just trying to cover up that COVID and learning loss are the reason for this to help push the false narrative about admissions. Some people liked being able to buy their kid's way into TJ and will say anything to get back to a system that favors wealthy feeder schools.[/quote]

You're being ridiculous.  The new admissions process was designed to no longer select kids based on standardized test taking ability and instead provide access to a much broader group of students.  It was obvious to everyone that test scores would drop when they stopped selecting kids based on test scores.  It's perfectly fair to argue that it's more important to provide access to TJ to all kids across the county than it is to maximize TJ's prestige.  There's no need to be intellectually dishonest about what is happening.  [/quote]

The problem is they want to keep the prestige built by a merit based admissions process and give it to kids that were not selected with a merit based process.

They want to pretend the bottom half of TJ now is as smart as they were 5 years ago.[/quote]

It's not just the bottom half (assuming you are ranking based on PSAT scores).  Prior to the admissions change, it was roughly 150/450 NMSFs.  Now it's <90/550.  So the roughly the 66-80%tile of kids are doing worse (on the PSAT).  I would argue that the entire distribution has shifted.
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PP here.  I don't think there is a question that the distribution has shifted but even if it was entirely random you would still have the same group in the top 20%.  As unexact as the essays are, they do still measure some quantum of merit.[/quote]

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