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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes… if you remove being an excellent test taker from the admissions criteria, you’ll have a class of kids who aren’t necessarily that great at taking standardized tests.

Thankfully, being a good test taker has no practical application other than school admissions processes. So who cares?

I’m more interested in the increase in Regeneron finalists.[/quote]

For the poster more interested in the Regeneron finalists….7 of the students went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”.  1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow.  1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools.

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So, they got in despite and not due to the new process.  The one who entered as a froshmore likely was on paper a no-brainer admit who got screwed over by the new admissions process.

I guess one could argue that the new process helped them by cutting down the competition at TJ and somewhat watering down the classes, which in turn let them focus more on their research projects than on their classwork.  [/quote]

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