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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost a fifth of the class comes from Carson. 45 from Longfellow. 37 from Rocky Run. Wow! Then Kilmer and Frost with low 20s. Not bad for LB either.

But I get PPs point about Eastern FFX supporting this school when it doesn't demographically reflect the county. [/quote]

I don't understand why admitted students don't need to be better distributed around the county. The other counties have limits on how many of their students can be admitted related to their financial support of the school, why shouldn't the different areas of Fairfax County be represented? We all pay taxes, it truly isn't right that one area of the county receives more of the benefits of TJ than other parts of the county. I think there should be limits similar to the limits in the other counties so that students from all over the county can benefit from TJ. 
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It's merit based admissions. The kids at Carson kill themselves for years to get in. I'm sure kids from other AAP Centers who work equally hard with that goal get in and benefit. [/quote]

There are limitations on the numbers admitted from Arlington, Prince William, and Loudoun counties. Those kids work hard too, but only a certain number are admitted and that number is related to the financial support their county provides to Fairfax for TJ.

Why can't FCPS be divided up into areas, dollar amount that supports the schools in terms of real estate taxes be taken into account, and then each area be assigned a number of admission slots just as we already do for the other counties? Every homeowner in the county pays taxes (and renters pay through their monthly rental payment).  [b]It really does seem a bit unbalanced that large areas of the county send very few students to TJ [/b]even though the residents are supporting the school through their taxes to the same extent as those who live in areas who send many more students.

They can only admit those students who apply. The applications are highly skewed toward, Vienna, Chantilly, Herndon ares.

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This. Also, beware the law of unintended consequences. Many, many Indian parents buy in a Carson zone for the sole purpose of sending a kid to TJ.  Say you cap each school at 25 kids. These parents just move to Twain or Sandberg or where ever admit rates are lowest to give their kids a leg up.   So the same kids end up at TJ. On top of that, many parents have said they do not want to send their kid to a TJ crazy middle school. Well, guess what?  Your MS is now TJ crazy. And you kid probably has a lower chance of getting in than they do now because there are 60 Indian kids taking Geometry in summer school and test prepping to death and moving heaven and Earth to beat your kid out. If you don't live in TJ crazy, you don't get just how crazy it is. Will an Indian mom rent in the Eastern part of the county for 2 years if it gives their kid a good shot at TJ?  That's a no brainier. [/quote]

Man this shit is crazy. People do crazier shit to get their kids into TJ than to get their kids into Sidwell or Potomac. Really your kid couldn't be successful at Chantilly, McLean or God Forbid, Edison? [/quote]

The irony is that there are a good number of kids at TJ who are sweating the college admission process b/c they are the tippy top of TJ.  Even with outstanding SATs, but med. grades, they are told they are unlikely to get into VaTech.  Top students at TJ are outright rejected from MIT, Uva.  And yet, we know of kids from Edison who get into MIT, Uva, Tech, etc.   The kids who are struggling to find a college from TJ would be the top of the top at the lower reputation schools.  TJ kids actually presented this picture to the incoming 9th graders telling them that going to TJ would not help them get into a good college (I'm sure 99% of the rising 9th graders dismissed this as not applying to them -- just the others).

I agree that the craziness to get into TJ sounds horrible (as described here).  What is it really getting these kids?  Seems like a race down a rabbit hole.  [/quote]

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