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[quote=Anonymous]If you look at TJ 2025 admission stats,
30.7% under represented schools
25.1% economically disadvantaged 
7.1% language learners
5.5% ELL
2.4% Special Ed

I am sure there will be overlaps, and we can not simply take above numbers at face value and add then and say 71% of all TJ seats went to other experience factors. But, due to lack of missing cumulative data (deliberate??), even if take some sort of middle ground (about half overlaps in numbers) and say 50% went to other experience factors, that’s quite a lot and I would say other factors are significantly over subscribed and totally unfair to general population. You can’t simple take away or pre allocate ‘half’ or even the ‘best case’ scenario of 40-45% of seats. Though I am somewhat partial to admission changes, I fully understand the frustration some parents and kids are expressing. This is bad!

Also, outside of ‘experience factors’, the new process gives same score to 7&8th grade GPA as single 30min science essay or portrait sheet (300 points each). And since GPA is unweighted, it’s clearly a disadvantage to take harder courses even available to them. Since there is no teacher input, it’s really hard to distinguish the talent, especially at AAP center schools and the whole process is essentially a lottery among 200 or so similar on paper students apply from center schools and only about 20-30 get in. So stupid and I am not sure if this is a conscious decision or FCPS didn’t actually think through the implications.

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