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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If every other NOVA school is an “easy A,” then the college admissions offices will know that, and will place almost no weight on a GPA they recognize as meaningless.  This is especially true for the VA schools, since they track our HS’s closely.

Accordingly, they will also know and appreciate TJ’s rigor / accelerated student body, and take that into account, even if there are a few Bs on a transcript.

If your child plans to attend some school on the west coast who has never heard of TJ and couldn’t even find FFX county on a map, then they might assume GPA’s from all schools should be weighted the exact same way. [/quote]
Problem is not TJ rigor. Problem is [b]colleges in VA and nearby do compare one TJ applicant to another TJ applicant[/b].  Out of 550 TJ class, the top 150 students have mostly As, and the bottom 150 students have atleast a half a dozen Cs and another dozen Bs.  Most of these questions are coming out of concern what if their student is not in that top 150.  [/quote]
Yes this is the concern, especially since even the top student from our middle school would be compared to a student from Franklin or Kilmer or Carson or others. [/quote]

If this is truly a concern,

-  wouldn’t a better college admissions strategy for your 8th grader be to transfer them to a Title I school in a district with high FARMS-rate, to ensure your kid has all A’s with the least amount of homework time?

(joking, of course.  This is an idiotic idea).[/quote]
This is as idiotic as the fool here who suggests moving to Poe Middle to get into TJ. Well, Poe Middle teaches Algebra 1 but teacher cant go past two units in entire year. [/quote]

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