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Anonymous wrote:Wait-list is moving. One of the stronger students at our school just got in

Which school?

Lake Braddock. 800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted. I am summing someone must have declined. An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL. t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too

What?!? Are you seriously bad mouthing the students of the #1 high school in the country?!? Please stop your nonsense. It's OK to say you don't care if the student body is weaker because of equity concerns, but at least admit it.

Define “weaker”

Fewer gifted students, fewer exceptionally high IQ students, lower standardized test scores, less successful in competitive academic pursuits, contests, science fairs, and competitions.

1) Fewer "gifted" students: Unlikely that this will be the case. Fewer advanced students, perhaps.

2) Fewer exceptionally high IQ students: Severely unlikely that this will be the case as there were not that many at TJ to begin with.

3) Lower standardized test scores: This will certainly be the case because they are not overselecting for test taking ability. But it's pretty much irrelevant to the school environment.

4) Less successful in competitive academic pursuits: There will be somewhat fewer individuals on these teams, but the kids who actually compete in these competitions for TJ will still have gotten into the school. A lot of parents severely overestimate how many of their kids would have been in these positions.

TJ will drop in every metric. Every single one. But here's the thing - we don't care. This is about opening up the opportunity to underserved communities and non-traditional students. You care about scores, we care about helping the entire community gets its gifted STEM kids on the path to STEM leaders representing a broad cross section of society for the next generation.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait-list is moving. One of the stronger students at our school just got in

Which school?

Lake Braddock. 800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted. I am summing someone must have declined. An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL. t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too

By that you mean the fewer kids who study, the stronger the class would be? That's what test prep is-- studying. I don't see anything wrong with that.

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Anonymous wrote:we will able to know that how many kids are in waited list?

Someone FOIAed this. There are over 1,000 kids on the waitlist.

https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

Does TJ use grade 7 or grade 8 GPA? And is it overall GPA or just Math and Science?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait-list is moving. One of the stronger students at our school just got in

Which school?

Lake Braddock. 800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted. I am summing someone must have declined. An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL. t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too

What?!? Are you seriously bad mouthing the students of the #1 high school in the country?!? Please stop your nonsense. It's OK to say you don't care if the student body is weaker because of equity concerns, but at least admit it.

Define “weaker”

Fewer gifted students, fewer exceptionally high IQ students, lower standardized test scores, less successful in competitive academic pursuits, contests, science fairs, and competitions.

1) Fewer "gifted" students: Unlikely that this will be the case. Fewer advanced students, perhaps.

2) Fewer exceptionally high IQ students: Severely unlikely that this will be the case as there were not that many at TJ to begin with.

3) Lower standardized test scores: This will certainly be the case because they are not overselecting for test taking ability. But it's pretty much irrelevant to the school environment.

4) Less successful in competitive academic pursuits: There will be somewhat fewer individuals on these teams, but the kids who actually compete in these competitions for TJ will still have gotten into the school. A lot of parents severely overestimate how many of their kids would have been in these positions.

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Anonymous wrote:You got an email? I thought the error was on the portal and people did not realize it unless they checked the portal.

Not sure what PP is talking about. There was no email sent out.

Nope, some families got an email.

The admissions office’s “apology” email was pretty unprofessional.

But was it equitable?

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Anonymous wrote:You got an email? I thought the error was on the portal and people did not realize it unless they checked the portal.

Not sure what PP is talking about. There was no email sent out.

Nope, some families got an email.

The admissions office’s “apology” email was pretty unprofessional.

Anonymous wrote:You got an email? I thought the error was on the portal and people did not realize it unless they checked the portal.

Not sure what PP is talking about. There was no email sent out.

You got an email? I thought the error was on the portal and people did not realize it unless they checked the portal.

So we received an email about a week ago stating our child was accepted from the waitlist and to start the enrollment process. Then roughly 24 hours later, we received an email stating that this was a mistake. This apparently happened to the majority of the waitlisted children according to friends of our child. Now, I understand mistakes are made, but this is completely unacceptable. An apology email was sent to us which is nothing more than empty words at this point.

Its one thing for a student to be stuck waiting on a acceptance, its actually a good thing to teach them and apparently some parent as well, some patience. But, to send out an acceptance email, which prompted more than just our child to start the enrollment process, is completely unethical and could easily be considered negligence imo.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait-list is moving. One of the stronger students at our school just got in

Which school?

Lake Braddock. 800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted. I am summing someone must have declined. An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL. t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too

What?!? Are you seriously bad mouthing the students of the #1 high school in the country?!? Please stop your nonsense. It's OK to say you don't care if the student body is weaker because of equity concerns, but at least admit it.

Define “weaker”

Fewer gifted students, fewer exceptionally high IQ students, lower standardized test scores, less successful in competitive academic pursuits, contests, science fairs, and competitions.

That's what it looks to mean. Perhaps fewer students declined offers than in the past. Really tough to get in.

Anonymous wrote:Admitted family here. Based on email last night it seems like class is either full or very close to it. Doubtful there will be any more significant waitlist movement.

Admitted family here. Based on email last night it seems like class is either full or very close to it. Doubtful there will be any more significant waitlist movement.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that big a deal to get into TJ now anyway. No one is going to think those kids are the strongest students in the county, or even the ones with the most interest in STEM.

This statement implies that the point of going to TJ is to be thought of as one of the strongest students in the county, rather than, you know, the top notch STEM-focused educational opportunities and the chance to work in labs that many universities envy.

Sour grapes at their finest. No worry - TJ will be just fine without you.

It's inevitable that TJ will decline and there will be pressure to introduce additional classes at base schools if there is more demand. And then the School Board can obsess over why a course is available at Oakton but not Lewis, even though they've ignored for decades that TJ students had opportunities denied others.

They didn't ignore it - TJ is a Governor's school. It's supposed to have opportunities denied others.

In other words equity is really important to this School Board unless it isn’t. That’s what they keep demonstrating time and time again.

The School Board is just virtue signaling - typical of democrats. Means nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that big a deal to get into TJ now anyway. No one is going to think those kids are the strongest students in the county, or even the ones with the most interest in STEM.

This statement implies that the point of going to TJ is to be thought of as one of the strongest students in the county, rather than, you know, the top notch STEM-focused educational opportunities and the chance to work in labs that many universities envy.

Sour grapes at their finest. No worry - TJ will be just fine without you.

It's inevitable that TJ will decline and there will be pressure to introduce additional classes at base schools if there is more demand. And then the School Board can obsess over why a course is available at Oakton but not Lewis, even though they've ignored for decades that TJ students had opportunities denied others.

They didn't ignore it - TJ is a Governor's school. It's supposed to have opportunities denied others.

In other words equity is really important to this School Board unless it isn’t. That’s what they keep demonstrating time and time again.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait-list is moving. One of the stronger students at our school just got in

Which school?

Lake Braddock. 800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted. I am summing someone must have declined. An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL. t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too

What?!? Are you seriously bad mouthing the students of the #1 high school in the country?!? Please stop your nonsense. It's OK to say you don't care if the student body is weaker because of equity concerns, but at least admit it.

Define “weaker”