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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much drama.  Even so, the number of applications to TJ for the Class of 2026 from Carson alone was greater than the combined total from the county's six poorest middle schools (Glasgow, Herndon, Holmes, Key, Poe, and Whitman).  And the number of applicants from both Carson and each of the six other schools declined from the number of applicants for the Class of 2025.

Maybe FCPS was able to generate more interest in TJ the first year after the admissions changes, but it wasn't sustained this year.  It seems like the reaction to the greater subjectivity and random quality of TJ admissions was a bit of a "Yeah, no thanks."[/quote]

Btw, Carson is predominantly AAP i.e, at least 2/3rd (about 500/grade) student population is AAP representing wide range of kids that belong to Oakton, Chantilly, Westfields, SouthLakes and Herndon (?) HS pyramids. It is totally unfair to pool all these kids under single middle school by using the attending middle school based quota. I am pretty sure FCPS is aware of it and they did it deliberately to hurt AAP students where asians are over represented. I have written many emails, voiced this exact concern during the town halls and gotten zero response. I wish the quotas were based on school pyramid instead. [/quote]

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