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Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

The first time they implemented the new woke selection process, the STEM event where TJ had top 5 finishes for 12 consecutive years came to an end.

As an acknowledgement of how bad the new selection process was, child was admitted in sophomore round.

As good a proof as you can get of the new flawed selection process.

I am not aware of any serious competitive STEM events having freshman or sophomores (the batch from new selection process". How do you relate to the new selection process then?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

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Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

The first time they implemented the new woke selection process, the STEM event where TJ had top 5 finishes for 12 consecutive years came to an end.

As an acknowledgement of how bad the new selection process was, child was admitted in sophomore round.

As good a proof as you can get of the new flawed selection process.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

The first time they implemented the new woke selection process, the STEM event where TJ had top 5 finishes for 12 consecutive years came to an end.

As an acknowledgement of how bad the new selection process was, child was admitted in sophomore round.

As good a proof as you can get of the new flawed selection process.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

This is great to hear. TJ isn't everything, and indeed, some of the strongest kids to come out of there can be the kids who apply and are admitted in the Sophomore Round.

Anonymous wrote:Be warned a humble brag below, but a few might find helpful:

The thing that most impressed my about my child was the response to TJ rejection.

Next day started working on the thing child is most passionate about. Continued working on it whole summer and during school year at base school where there is so much more time.

Come the competition day, child outperformed every single TJ competitor from their grade. This is an activity TJ dominated with at least the top 5 positions every single year for 12 years that I was able to download data on. This is the activity child cares about really really intensely.

Child did not know or care or even follow this ranking. I did.

So do not let a TJ rejection bring down your child's morale.

Anonymous wrote:It is going to be a very slow trickle and would last through the next couple of months.

It is going to be painful if you are going to wait on this.

Understand and deeply sympathize with all who are on waiting list.

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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.