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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ students have been losing out to base HS students in college admissions. Mukai knows how important this is to students and parents so he's fixing it. He's doing a great job.[/quote]

That may be his goal, but by adding more AP classes as standard offerings just makes TJ students all look more uniform. Ask any admissions officer. They have to have something to differentiate with and if every single kid now takes more of the same, it becomes much more difficult. Plus, by making them look more like base school kids, that also makes it harder to differentiate.  He would've been a lot smarter to ask FCPS to make more unique TJ-only courses and get out of bed with the College Board. Dual enrollment would've been a better choice--extra weighting and guaranteed credits that actually transfer to most colleges. We're likely to see this short-sighted plan backfire.[/quote]

TJ students transcripts look uniform.  This has been true for a long time.  Until you get to the electives, everybody takes the same classes.  How does taking the same core of honors classes seem more unique than everyone taking the same core of AP classes?

He is not replacing linear algebra with AP pre-calc.  He is replacing honors pre-calc with AP pre-calc. [/quote]

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