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What I have learned in many years of experience in Northern Virginia and TJ is this:

If you have a hard and fast selection criteria that you use and apply equally to all students - basically no matter what it is - the system will favor the parents who have the resources and motivation to fit their round kid into the square hole. And you’re going to get a huge number of kids who all have relatively the same profile because the parents figured out that “that’s the profile that works”.

No matter what racial balance that creates, it’s a negative outcome for TJ. Too many similar kids results in mental health issues.[/quote]

What everyone (mostly everyone) wants is a return to the best years of TJ, to the good old days when gifted students had rigorous but not crushing classes, a peer group of innovative students, and lower pressure.  The 80s and 90s, maybe?

So far, no one has any  idea how to recreate that.  But I think a change is a step in the right direction.[/quote]

To recreate that, you'd need to return to a time when a good but not great TJ student could count on UVA as a fall back and VT as a safety. Any school comprised of kids all wanting to go to competitive colleges is going to have pressure because those kids know they have to outperform their peers to make it happen [/quote]

This is absolutely FALSE. TJ students have struggled in the college admissions process in recent years not because of the increased level of competitiveness, but because they tend to be indistinguishable from one another on paper. They are all going for the same seats at the same schools, rather than going for different seats at the same schools. So say college admissions officers who visit the school, at any rate.

[b]Bring in a class of students with a greater diversity of experiences, interests, and goals[/b], and you’ll see stronger admit numbers from TJ.[/quote]

That is what base schools are for.[/quote]

I disagree, and that's why base schools have seen their college admissions fortunes improve as TJ has become more STEM-focused in their admissions process.[/quote]

Nah. TJ has better college admissions than even Sidwell and arguably the best in the country despite Asian TJ students being discriminated in college admissions.[/quote]

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