Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would guess anything below 3.5 UWAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:+1. My kid is currently at TJ. Older kid went to base HS.
Same courses. Same curriculum. At TJ often 2 semesters worth of course are crammed into 1. And that actually hurts the learning.
My older learnt his fundamentals much better at his base school.
TJ works for the top third of the class, who are truly academically advanced. But the remaining 2/3's struggle. Only consolation is the TJ diploma.
not stellar GPA thanks for the rigor/tough grading of TJ.!
What is a not stellar GPA for TJ?
How about 4.3 WGPA?
Anonymous wrote:I would guess anything below 3.5 UWAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:+1. My kid is currently at TJ. Older kid went to base HS.
Same courses. Same curriculum. At TJ often 2 semesters worth of course are crammed into 1. And that actually hurts the learning.
My older learnt his fundamentals much better at his base school.
TJ works for the top third of the class, who are truly academically advanced. But the remaining 2/3's struggle. Only consolation is the TJ diploma.
not stellar GPA thanks for the rigor/tough grading of TJ.!
What is a not stellar GPA for TJ?
Anonymous wrote:About one third of TJ class is being wasted by filling it with students who lack the stem readiness to be successful there. The irony is those students don't know they lack the prerequisite knowledge in math, science, and English, since they got admitted without rigorous evaluation. Now it is even worse, with students being offered admission based on a frivolous essay and no stem evaluation whatsoever. Statistically, just the top one third are the only ones who would have been admitted if there was a rigorous admissions evaluation.
I would guess anything below 3.5 UWAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:+1. My kid is currently at TJ. Older kid went to base HS.
Same courses. Same curriculum. At TJ often 2 semesters worth of course are crammed into 1. And that actually hurts the learning.
My older learnt his fundamentals much better at his base school.
TJ works for the top third of the class, who are truly academically advanced. But the remaining 2/3's struggle. Only consolation is the TJ diploma.
not stellar GPA thanks for the rigor/tough grading of TJ.!
What is a not stellar GPA for TJ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:+1. My kid is currently at TJ. Older kid went to base HS.
Same courses. Same curriculum. At TJ often 2 semesters worth of course are crammed into 1. And that actually hurts the learning.
My older learnt his fundamentals much better at his base school.
TJ works for the top third of the class, who are truly academically advanced. But the remaining 2/3's struggle. Only consolation is the TJ diploma.
not stellar GPA thanks for the rigor/tough grading of TJ.!
Anonymous wrote:+1. My kid is currently at TJ. Older kid went to base HS.
Same courses. Same curriculum. At TJ often 2 semesters worth of course are crammed into 1. And that actually hurts the learning.
My older learnt his fundamentals much better at his base school.
TJ works for the top third of the class, who are truly academically advanced. But the remaining 2/3's struggle. Only consolation is the TJ diploma.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rigor at TJ compared to regular FCPS high Schools is much more.. Every course that is taught on Math, Science, CS side is more in depth and the testing way tougher than in a regular High school. Grading is tougher. So how do colleges not keep this in mind while evaluating student applications. It is definielty easy to get A's in a HS where rigor is lesser ! Looking for advice
You go to TJ to get a rigorous education. It is a drawback for college admissions for almost all the kids.
Even the tippy top TJ kid who might be in top 5% of academics at TJ would is at a slight disadvantage compared to base HS. At base the same student would have the teachers writing recommendation letters that say something to the effect of "walking on water" vs. a merely strong recommendation at TJ. The teachers at TJ were so used to seeing exceptionally strong kids over the years, that the bar to get a strong recommendation is extraordinarily high.
Colleges do consider the rigor, but would an Ivy pick bottom half student at TJ based on academics? Not unless they have some extraordinary extra-curriculars.
It is a big unfair, but consolation is that they do get really strong education.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a person who studied CS and applied math and later worked at several big-name tech companies, I've always found IT boring. Those guys pull cables, install software, and fix computers. I guess someone has to do it.
Sorry you got the most menial job in IT. If you were asked to pull cables, your skills were assessed to be no more than a junior electrician.
Anonymous wrote:As a person who studied CS and applied math and later worked at several big-name tech companies, I've always found IT boring. Those guys pull cables, install software, and fix computers. I guess someone has to do it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a person who studied CS and applied math and later worked at several big-name tech companies, I've always found IT boring. Those guys pull cables, install software, and fix computers. I guess someone has to do it.
Yes, IT is the STEM equivalent of manual labor. We had an IT desk on every floor that was like an Apple Genius bar where you could bring your laptop to have software installed or get repairs or replacement hardware. People who do serious work at tech firms aren't in IT.
Anonymous wrote:As a person who studied CS and applied math and later worked at several big-name tech companies, I've always found IT boring. Those guys pull cables, install software, and fix computers. I guess someone has to do it.