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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current principal's policies are not doing any favours to the students. She keeps saying that the staff is not there for the student's GPA but to be the GPS of the students. I don't think any colleges are looking for GPS. I am pretty sure that starting with class of 2025, the number of TJ students getting admitted to top college's will go down. Teachers there are frustrated because the students are not able to cope up with the rigor of the curriculum. Students seem to expect a curve for every tough test  [/quote]

There will be a much broader distribution of SAT scores with the class of 2025.  
The consistency of mental horsepower just isn't there anymore.
You now have a school that is about as competitive as the top half of McLean's honor students.
There was a time when the vast majority of the Virginia USAMO qualifiers were from TJ.  
This year's USAJMO (mostly freshmen and sophomores) is seeing a lot more diversity, with McLean, Longfellow and other Virginia schools seeing several students qualify.  
Did all these students getting USAMO and USAJMO not apply to TJ or did the race driven admissions process fail to select them?
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That's notable. The more likely of your scenarios is that top STEM talent is not getting recognized in the new admissions process.[/quote]

My question was rhetorical.
There is a black student at woodson that developed a treatment for skin cancer while he was in middle school.  
Under the old system that was more merit driven, he would likely be at TJ.[/quote]

How do you even know if this kid is a good student? What if he got the idea from someone else? Or if he got the award for DEI reasons. What if he is a terrible writer? There are too many unknown factors to know if he would be a good student at TJ.[/quote]

I didn't know that these STEM contests even gave out awards for DEI reasons. In fact,do they even ask for racial demographics?[/quote]

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