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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

The middle school you attend plays a very significant role in admissions

Carson, Longfellow, Kilmer, and Rocky Run MS now admit students at lower rates

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This new admission process is totally unfair towards kids from AAP center schools. For example it is much more difficult to make the cut off in Carson (AAP center) than in Franklin (base school) due to higher competition. Except for may be 3 or 4 AAP kids from my kids elementary school, who chose to go to Franklin (for personal reasons), all of the 100+ kids from AAP class went to Carson, which is the default. I wish the admission process is based on 'base' middle school instead of the school they actually attend.

To understand the competition, I believe around 50% of my kids AAP class qualified for presidential medal (names announced at 6th grade graduation ceremony) where as the less than 10% of PBL class got it. In addition, AAP kids participate at much higher rate of participation in most of the STEM activities/fairs, digital leadership, writing etc compared non AAP kids.

For the sake of the argument, How do you feel NASA reserving 4 research slots to top two students from MIT and top two students from Liberty University with out taking individual merit into consideration? Do you consider it is fair to rest of the MIT class who also wanted to get into NASA but lose out to Liberty? [/quote]

We all understand that you are upset your Carson kid got waitlisted.  There is a difference between what is fair and what is legal.  The court will decide if it is legal for the school board to change admissions in a manner to include all middle schools so the entire county benefits from having TJ in Fairfax and funded by taxpayers.  If each school could only send one kid to a county wide spelling bee that has first, second and third prizes, would it be fair to the second place finisher at a school being excluded from the spelling bee even though she may be the second best speller in the county?  I think so.  It she was excluded because she didn't have the right experience factors so they sent someone else in her place, that is a different story.  Please let the court decide what Fairfax county can and cannot do.  If you do not like the end result, feel free to vote in elections, run for school board, advocate for change, move to another county, or support closing down TJ.   [/quote]

Answer to the PP's question: Depends on skin color of Liberty student.

And as the responder says, it is not a fairness question. All sorts of unfair things were legal in this country and this is one more of them. Only the boogeyman is the Asian as they are not too many of them and they vote for Democrats anyway. If you want to change it, fight the system or suck it up. [/quote]

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