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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were destroyed in the last thread where you brought this up, the relative size of the two school systems is pertinent.

FCPS has 180,000 students. APS has less than 20,000.

Excluding TJ (a magnet school that pulls from all over, including Arlington) that's 289 for the 8 FCPS schools you listed compared to 57 for the two APS schools on the list.

That's one NMSF for every 623 FCPs students and one for every 350 APS student.

So, just stop. You've embarrassed yourself. Try to limit yourself to one ass-kicking a week, mkay? Thanks.

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80% of TJ comes from Fairfax so there is no legitimate reason to exclude it.  And, even if you did, the top neighborhood high schools in FCPS consistently outperform the Arlington schools, whether it's average SATs, the number of NMSFs, or US News ratings.

Arlington can't even punch, much less punch at its weight. [/quote]

Of course you exclude TJ. That's like saying Boston's the best city in America cuz of Haaahvard. TJ is, by definition, an outlier.
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You can't exclude TJ in this comparison because it's pulling so many Fairfax County students from other high schools. 80% of those FCPS students could be around 580 students from FCPS that received this recognition. It's a significant number. To be accurate you'd have to know exactly which school system each NMSF at TJ came from, but to estimate you could just take the numbers of NMSF times the percentage of TJ students from each county.[/quote]

Oh, FFS.  Half the applicants -- literally -- were Asian. It's self-selecting and an outlier. Besides, interest in TJ is waning -- applications were down 14% last year.

Do Asians not count in your world? What a strange remark. My guess is a lot of NMSF students are into places like TJ so they would be attracted to "outlier" stem schools whether in APS or FCPS.

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Asian Americans from Fairfax "count" but the point is many kids at TJ would not be in base high schools in Fairfax if not for TJ--they wouldn't be in Fairfax (possibly even in the US) at all. [/quote]

I hear this a lot, and genuinely want to know. How many kids attend TJ for FCPS MSs whose parents don't live in Fairfax County (or this country)?  Or who did not come to this country until MS (that, came only to apply for TJ)?  DC goes to Carson, which is the biggest TJ feeder, and with the TJ test being this weekend, it's all anyone is talking about right now. It's true a huge percentage of The Carson TJ applicants are Asian. But I have never met one who is not living with their parents (most in a SFH they own)-- and almost all are from Carson feeder ESs. I believe Asian families move to FCPS for AAP and TJ (instead of DC, Montgomery or PG County, or, yes, Arlington).   Does anyone have numbers showing that more than a handful of kids are  living here without their parents in MS just to apply to TJ?  I have always though this is an urban myth. But maybe I'm just not seeing it?[/quote]

A fair number. Do you not remember this highly-publicized story? It made national news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/harvard-stanford-admissions-hoax-becomes-international-scandal/2015/06/18/4abac970-156a-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html

See also cram schools: https://talkinstuff.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/korean-inspired-cram-schools/

There is an entire industry IN KOREA that helps prep kids for this school.
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See, neither of these articles have anything to do with foreign TJ applicants or students or in any way imply the things you say they do. I certainly remember the TJ scandal discussed in the first last spring (and was appalled). But nothing in the article you linked mentions foreign TJ applicants or students-- it just mentions that TJ is largely Asian AMERICAN (which we all knew) and that the girl at the center of the scandal was Korean American, and that the scandal also made the Korean press.  The second article DOES NOT say that there are school is Asian countries cramming Asian kids to get into TJ.  It says that ONE family was so OTT that they sent their Asian American child to stay with family Korea over the summer to cram, because they felt American cram schools weren't tough enough. And that Asian style cram schools are popping up in Fairfax County for the  SSAT,SAT, PSAT!, J test and other standardized tests.  But these are serving Fairfax County kids, and we all know they are out there.

So once again, is there any actual evidence a significant number of TJ kids are foreign students, here without their parents, just to apply to or attend TJ?    Besides "we all know this to be true," or "someone told me that someone told her that they heard of someone who..."[/quote]

You don't seem to understand...

1) The Washington Post has reported that the ROK embassy publishes the admission requirements on its website. "In South Korea, TJ — yes, a public high school in an American suburb — gets rock-star status. The Korean Embassy has the admissions requirements for TJ on its Web site. Preschools near Korean churches advertise that they can help kids get into TJ. There is an entire subculture of Korean parents who establish residency in Northern Virginia — one parent comes, while the other usually stays behind — with the sole purpose of getting their kid into TJ"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/genius-girl-a-harvard-stanford-admissions-hoax-and-elite-college-mania/2015/06/22/e955be78-1907-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html

2) There is an entire cottage industry in Korea devoted to this.

3) There are group houses of Korean high school students who attend TJ. The school refers to this as the "Korean Heritage Society."

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