They don't tell you ahead of time what the essay will be about. Or what the math problems will be. Why should they tell you ahead of time what the physical/sports activity will be. Trying to find out ahead of time? Cheating may be too strong of a word. But trying to gain some type of unfair advantage? Yes.

But, before the NFL combine they tell you you will run a 40 yard dash. What's so mysterious about playing some ball! Don't get to wound up it in this nonsense. If your kid is jerk or meathead there are many ways to draw this out besides the school yard. And if you do have a kid that's a jerk or meathead why is it considered cheating for a parent to actually parent and counsel that child.

The school apparently asks applicants to engage in some type of physical/sports activity during the interview. It's not something they do just to have your boys blow off steam. They find something observable and discernable and apparently valuable to throw into the applicant assessment mix. They don't tell you ahead of time what the essay will be about. Or what the math problems will be. Why should they tell you ahead of time what the physical/sports activity will be. Trying to find out ahead of time? Cheating may be too strong of a word. But trying to gain some type of unfair advantage? Yes.

What kool-aid fountain do you drink from? What a bizarre explanation and argument for cheating. Are you the standard for typical parents at schools like STA, Sidwell, and GDS? I certainly hope your children are endowed with a little more common sense about a silly game of football and basketball? Can one garner National Merit Semi-Finalist attention for this activity ... or is it the STA Heisman trophy?

Pure garbage.

Anonymous wrote:Cheating? Explain yourself.

The school apparently asks applicants to engage in some type of physical/sports activity during the interview. It's not something they do just to have your boys blow off steam. They find something observable and discernable and apparently valuable to throw into the applicant assessment mix. They don't tell you ahead of time what the essay will be about. Or what the math problems will be. Why should they tell you ahead of time what the physical/sports activity will be. Trying to find out ahead of time? Cheating may be too strong of a word. But trying to gain some type of unfair advantage? Yes.

Cheating? Explain yourself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:C-Form applicant visit/interviews have started, so I am told. Do they make the kids play crab football or basketball this year? Please, this is a serious question for reasons that I'd rather not get into.

*67 the admissions office and ask. How the heck is anyone else suppose to know this? Are you a Beauvoirian?

Would not this be akin to cheating?

TJHSST 2010 Senior Destinations

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Doesn't look like anyone's posted this up yet this year ... thought I'd do so. From the Senior Issue of TJToday, the school newspaper at TJHSST. Apologies for any typos, just done really quickly.

And for those of you who don't know about TJ/are gonna be like "doesn't hold a candle to Andover/Exeter/whatever" as I've seen in previous TJHSST Destinations threads, from Wikipedia:

Quote:
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST, TJ, Jefferson) is a Virginia state-chartered Governor's School located in Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, west of Alexandria.[2] It is a regional high school operated by Fairfax County Public Schools.
As a publicly funded and administered high school with selective admissions, TJHSST is often compared with notable public magnet schools. Attendance at TJ is open to students in six local jurisdictions based on an admissions test and prior academic achievement. The selective admissions program was initiated in 1985 through the cooperation of state and county governments, as well as corporate sponsorship from the defense and technology industries. TJ occupies the building of the previously non-selective Thomas Jefferson High School (constructed in 1965). TJHSST is one of 18 Virginia Governor's Schools, and a founding member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the school the best public high school in the nation in 2007,[3] 2008,[4] and 2009[5].

American U - 1
Amherst - 1
Bard - 1
Boston U - 1
Bowdoin - 1
Brigham Young - 1
Brown - 7
Bucknell - 1
CalTech - 3
Carnegie Mellon - 9
Case Western Reserve - 1
Christopher Newport - 1
Claremont McKenna - 1
Colby - 2
William & Mary - 60
Columbia - 6
Cooper Union - 1
Cornell - 17
Dartmouth - 7
Davidson - 1
Drexel - 1
Duke - 17
Emory - 2
Olin - 3
Furman - 1
George Mason - 4
Georgetown - 4
Georgia Tech - 6
Harvard - 3
Harvey Mudd - 1
Johns Hopkins - 2
Lafayette - 1
MIT - 15
McGill - 3
Mount Saint Mary's - 1
NYU - 2
Northwestern - 2
Nova Southeastern - 1
Oberlin - 5
Penn State - 4
Pomona - 1
Princeton - 10
Rensselaer - 1
Rhode Island School of Design - 1
Rice - 1
RIT - 3
St. Olaf - 1
Stanford - 8
Swarthmore - 2
Temple - 1
George Washington - 3
UT-Austin - 1
Tufts - 1
US Air Force Academy - 2
US Coast Guard Academy - 1
US Military Academy - 1
US Naval Academy - 1
UC, Berkeley - 2
U-Chicago - 5
U of Florida - 2
U of Georgia - 1
UIUC - 4
Mary Washington - 3
UMD, College Park - 2
U of Missouri - 1
Notre Dame - 4
UNC, Chapel Hill - 2
U of Oklahoma - 1
UPenn - 9
U of Pittsburgh - 1
U of Richmond - 1
U of Rochester - 1
South Carolina - 1
USC (Southern California) - 6
U of St. Thomas
UVA - 91
VCU - 3
VTech - 30
Wake Forest - 1
Washington and Lee - 1
WashU, St. Louis - 4
Wellesley - 1
Wesleyan - 1
Wheaton - 1
Williams - 1
Yale - 10

Overheard in the hallways:
"... this year was a really bad year for us... UVA waitlisted so many people! And Harvard?!"
"DUDE! I GOT INTO STANFORD EARLY!"
"There was someone wearing a white shirt with MIT just written on it in black sharpie on Destination Day..."
"Eh, if I don't get in anywhere else, I guess I'll just have to go to UVA."
"Oh yeah, William and Mary is my safety."


FIGHT ON!

If anyone has any questions about TJHSST, feel free to shoot me a PM.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone tried to assess whether StA NMS finalists did well in crab football? I couldn't find that anywhere on the website.

The admission office does keep notes on how well each applicant performed at crab football or whatever game they're observed in. While it's unlikely that this info is listed on STA's website, it's probably inscribed in their eternal-student file.

Has anyone tried to assess whether StA NMS finalists did well in crab football? I couldn't find that anywhere on the website.

Anonymous wrote:C-Form applicant visit/interviews have started, so I am told. Do they make the kids play crab football or basketball this year? Please, this is a serious question for reasons that I'd rather not get into.

*67 the admissions office and ask. How the heck is anyone else suppose to know this? Are you a Beauvoirian?

C-Form applicant visit/interviews have started, so I am told. Do they make the kids play crab football or basketball this year? Please, this is a serious question for reasons that I'd rather not get into.

Maybe we should all shout MCPS yay! StA boo! Then perhaps he/she will think we mean it and take him/herself off!

Private school wannabe trying to be clever.

Maybe we should all shout MCPS yay! StA boo! Then perhaps he/she will think we mean it and take him/herself off!

?????

Maybe we should all shout MCPS yay! StA boo! Then perhaps he/she will think we mean it and take him/herself off!

Now, that you have that off your breast, tell us what you are ... clever?

Anonymous wrote:

Hey, the whack jobs from Blair and TJ are back! Missed ya, ladies!

Hark the dcummie illiterati crows.

You're dumb, not clever.