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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When they offer waitlisted students, will the academic performance matter or are the same experience/diversity factors still applied?[/quote]
Entire waitlist of 1000+ applicants is already ranked.  As ironic as it is, [b]FCPS has figured out diversity chart can be manipulated quickly if students with lower level of Algebra 1 math from low performing schools are admitted[/b], since the old merit based admissions favored the well managed top middle school students with higher level of Geometry or Algebra 2 math.  So, instead of the previous 20+ offers to algebra 1 students, now well over 160+ offers go to lower level math students.  As wishful as school board's political desire maybe, fortunately not all algebra 1 students are naive to take the bait and risk struggling with poor grades at TJ, so many politely decline the offer.  These significant number of declined offers return to the unallocated pool, and the competitive already ranked high math students from the waitlist are extended the offers.

Essentially, the message conveyed by Algebra 1 students declining their TJ offer to the school board is this: You're mistaken if you believe you can fulfill your diversity chart at the cost of our suffering at TJ. Prioritize fixing our middle schools so that we can learn higher-level math required for success at TJ, and then we'll consider accepting the TJ offer.[/quote]
😔 sad[/quote]

Don't be sad.  That poster is a troll.  That post is all nonsense.  [/quote]

FCPS is also inconsistent in the policy to offer the students in the wait pool. On the application website, they say

"Offers of admissions to students who have accepted to stay in the waitpool will be provided to [b]the highest evaluated students remaining in the waitpool[/b]. Waitpool offers will continue to be made until all seats have been filled or until the beginning of the school year, which occurs first."

But in the news letter on the decision page, they say

"The Wait Pool is made up of applicants from the freshman application round who met the minimum holistic review standards and didn’t receive an offer. [b]Since it is a wait pool, there is no ranked order to students in the wait pool [/b]since there are multiple factors for each placement"

Honestly, I don't even know if they rank students in the main admissions process at all.

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This means they have multiple wait pools - not a single wait pool. Depending on which pool or pools you are in, your chances are different. You may rank 1st in the Pool A, but nobody declines offer there, then you have no offer. You may rank 10th in Pool B, but 11 students decline offer, then you are in. How many pools do they have and how they make the pools, nobody knows. They cannot say that we have a pool for bottom students (or based on whatever nonsense criteria) that only send out offer to bottom students. That's why you see "there are multiple factors for each placement"[/quote]

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