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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD says last year Math was  easier than this year’s question.

Wording on this year’s made it lil more confusing than last year’s question. According to her - once you get thru that then it is a straightforward answer.

DD messed her essays. Waitlisted

Asian, 4.00 GPA, pre-calculus[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS Accepted. pre-calculus, 4.0, Asian[/quote]

Pre-calculus? What do kids do at TJ if they've already gone this far in math?[/quote]
DC currently at TJ completed pre-calc in middle school, outside FCPS.  past precalc, TJ has four levels:  Calc AB, Calc BC, Multi/linear, elementary diff & applied math techniques [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]DC waitlisted. 4.0. AP Pre-Calculus. Won gold, silver, bronze in different competitions. Volunteered a lot with the community (because DC wanted to do so, not bc of TJ. DC will continue doing so no matter what).

DC’s friends, DC, us and everyone knew DC were shocked with the result.

DC is resilient though. DC started discussing a new plan at base HS with us.[/quote]

When did they complete alg 1/geo/alg 2?[/quote]
Students coming from participating public school systems, would have completed Algebra 2 in 8th grade. Those from private or niche magnet school would have completed algebra 2 in 7th, but they are too small (TS) in number. But vast majority of students enter TJ having completed Geometry in 8th grade. [/quote]

What private school or magnate school is sending kids who have completed algebra 2 in 7th grade? Because the big knock on private schools for ES is that they don’t differentiate in math and kids who are advanced in math are not challenged. The only exceptions are Nysmith and Basis. This claim sounds to be as valid as the poster who was saying that Loudoun County has 200 6th graders in Algebra 1 when the SOL scores show 30 kids in Algebra 1 in Loudoun.

APS does not have a lot of kids in Algebra 2 in 8th grade. Loudoun has the same number of kids as FCPS in Algebra 2 in 8th grade. It is an exception tot he rule.

A small percentage of kids have completed Algebra 2 in 8th grade, most of whom took geometry in the summer to do so. [/quote]

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