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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does admissions work if our kid goes to an Arlington middle school and more than 1.5% of kids have the highest possible GPA? Does it matter if most of those kids don't apply to TJ? [/quote]

Some folks get confused about what the 1.5% allotment actually means.

It does not mean that spaces are automatically offered to the top 1.5% of students within your middle school class.

It DOES mean that each middle school is allotted a number of spaces equal to 1.5% of your school's 8th grade class. So if your school has, say, 400 8th graders, your school would be allotted 6 spaces.

If only 6 students apply from your middle school and all of them meet the minimum qualifications, they will all be admitted to TJ.

If 20 of them apply and meet the minimum requirements, then six of them will be granted admission through the allocated spaces at your school and the other 14 will compete for the remaining unallocated spaces with all of the other qualified students in the applicant pool who were not selected for allocated spaces.[/quote]

Thanks a lot for this info. Earlier I thought it this way: ABC school has 100 students and the top 1.5% of the 100 students are given admission regardless they are applying to TJ or not. If 1.5% is 7 students and 2 of those students have applied, will get the TJ seat. 
As per your explanation top 1.5% of those applied to TJ are getting admission.[/quote]

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