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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low grades in Freshman year ( 1-2 C, majority Bs ) are a sign.

Move back to base school.

[b]The counselors main goal is to keep u at TJ - attrition looks bad for them.[/b]

They think going to GMU is just as good as going to UVa.
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This was true under Bonitatibus.  I have heard that Mukai does not want to go to extraordinary effort to retain kids that are not well prepared for TJ and would rather pick up kids in the froshmore process.  This is just hearsay upon hearsay but it is consistent with what I have seen of Mukai.[/quote]

I applaud Mukai, if so.

While the admissions downgrade was social-engineering driven by DEI radicals, such as SB chair Karl Frisch and the prior SB, Bonitatibus was an enthusiastic cheerleader the whole way through.

The damage to the prestige and value of the TJ experience cannot be disputed:  there a fewer than half as many merit scholars and test scores are down, while those returning to base has gone way up.

Mukai is simply implementing some damage control in the wake of DEIA-driven admissions changes.[/quote]

Fwiw, the "half as many merit scholars" isn't a reflection of TJ or the changed admissions.  Instead, the prior year had an extra large number.  That was the fluke.[/quote]

This was the first time it was below 100 ever.  [/quote]

Number of TJHSST National Merit Semifinalists Since 2016

2025: 81 
(1st yr new admission system - 100 more students than in prior years)

2024: 165 
2023: 132
2022: 144
2021: 132
2020: 157
2019: 159
2018: 145
2017: 119 
2016: 163

The woke crowd has an excuse for everything.  They even try to blame COVID.  How does covid affect the class of 2025 but not the class of 2024?  How does Covid affect TJ but no other school in FCPS or any of the other magnet schools across the country?[/quote]

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