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According to TJ school profile, the Class of 2022 Final Grade Point Averages (8th semester) ranged from 3.255 to 4.663

Based on the multiple Naviance scattergrams for TJ, a weighted average of
4.65 or above is top 01%
4.64 or above is top 02%
4.60 or above is top 05%
4.55 or above is top 10%
4.53 or above is top 15%
4.50 or above is top 25%
4.45 or above is top 33%
4.40 or above is top 40%
4.38 or above is top 50%
4.35 or above is top 60%
4.33 or above is top 66%
4.30 or above is top 75%
4.00 or above is top 90%
3.75 or above is top 95%
3.25 or above is top 100%

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1200980.page[/quote]

Then there is definitely inflated grades at TJ. [/quote]
How does it matter? grade inflation is relative and colleges know it.  for instance, [b]UVA does not even open applications from TJ with less than 4.4 GPA.[/b]  [/quote]

Again, this is completely and totally false.[/quote]

It's more like hyperbole.  4.3 students rarely get in.[/quote]

wow - at our magnet HS 4.75 is the bottom 15% of the class.  [/quote]

For most private selective schools, they use your raw scores and have their own weighting system.
They don't give AP basket-weaving the same weight as AP calculus[/quote]

That statistic of &lt;4.74 being in the bottom 15% of the class is from MCPS Montgomery Blair's SMCS program where 50% of the class is NMSF and the average SAT score is 10+ higher than TJ's average. [/quote]

I see montgomery blair smcs program with an average SAT above 1530.
But to be fair, it seems to be a magnet within a magnet so the they seem to be using more objective standards than TJ used to.
The class size seems to be about 100 so I guess you can afford to be pickier.
If you filter for more merit, you end up getting more merit.  
Is it a small group of students within the [/quote]

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