Academies of Loudoun sent an e-mail that students who accept TJ admissions offers will automatically be unenrolled from LCPS. I assume this means they know admissions results will be released soon.

Where were you people the past 1.5 years lol

I already know folks that are playing the game by moving to a crappy school district to get into TJ through this new method

It's easier to get in this way than through one of the 3 AAP feeders now

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Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Is there no requirement that it has to be the top students in that middle school?

Those are the requirements for anyone to apply. The top 1.5% who apply are offered spots. The others go into the general pool for selection.

This is incorrect. Each school has an allotment of 1.5% of its 8th grade population. For example, if a school has 600 8th graders, then they are allotted 600*0.015 = 9 slots. Among the kids who apply from that school, the top 9 will be admitted to TJ, and the rest will go into the general pool for consideration. If only 9 qualified kids were to apply, they would all be admitted.

So how many middle schools apply and it would make it pretty easy at one of the poorer performing MS to get a kid in being the top 1.5%

Not really but if it makes you feel better to believe this by all means.

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Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

That sounds fine. I don't think this has to turn into the Hunger Games.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Is there no requirement that it has to be the top students in that middle school?

Those are the requirements for anyone to apply. The top 1.5% who apply are offered spots. The others go into the general pool for selection.

This is incorrect. Each school has an allotment of 1.5% of its 8th grade population. For example, if a school has 600 8th graders, then they are allotted 600*0.015 = 9 slots. Among the kids who apply from that school, the top 9 will be admitted to TJ, and the rest will go into the general pool for consideration. If only 9 qualified kids were to apply, they would all be admitted.

So how many middle schools apply and it would make it pretty easy at one of the poorer performing MS to get a kid in being the top 1.5%

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And it's ironic that you'd use inflammatory rhetoric to attack those trying to preserve what they saw as a merit-based process when the current School Board could just as readily be accused of doing its utmost to tear the place apart by favoring students with "experience factors" that are a soft proxy for race and lower SES.

Or pretending to use experience factors. They are using a question that every student can answer yes and get those experience factors.
They just want to be seen as taking more low-income kids, knowing that they are just taking high-income kids who checked the box.

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AOS takes only approx 120 kids from several thousands of middle schoolers. Their analytical written test is so tough that only kids who gets coaching and practices can make it. What does it mean? Kids who just takes academic classes cannot make it AOS. Gifted kid cannot get analytical skills automatically so that he can be top 7 of 700 eight graders. f

Nothing about the model requires 120 kids. TJ could do the same while accepting 1200 kids.
Coaching was provided to all students at my son's middle school. They went through the writing prompts.
Kids I know who went to Curie were not accepted to AOS or AET.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Is there no requirement that it has to be the top students in that middle school?

Those are the requirements for anyone to apply. The top 1.5% who apply are offered spots. The others go into the general pool for selection.

This is incorrect. Each school has an allotment of 1.5% of its 8th grade population. For example, if a school has 600 8th graders, then they are allotted 600*0.015 = 9 slots. Among the kids who apply from that school, the top 9 will be admitted to TJ, and the rest will go into the general pool for consideration. If only 9 qualified kids were to apply, they would all be admitted.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Is there no requirement that it has to be the top students in that middle school?

Those are the requirements for anyone to apply. The top 1.5% who apply are offered spots. The others go into the general pool for selection.

Ok so those 1.5% of top students will be evaluated too on the basis of how they approach the problem-solving question and SPS. What if their response to these questions are not satisfactory? OS they have to just do it.

How are the essays judged? Are there points for each one?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Is there no requirement that it has to be the top students in that middle school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

There is no "test" anymore. It is some generic essays that check a box. The rest of the requirements are not hard. These standards are not much for creating a pool of "gifted" as it is just stratifying where kids come from in the county. On the plus side it should encourage very smart kids to live or attend middle schools that are rated lower. It increases your odds of acceptance tremendously.

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Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.

It is more then that.

1) Honors math and science in 7th and 8th grade. this includes Algebra Honors (not just Algebra)
2) At least 1 one other Honors class each year
3) A 3.5 GPA
4) Successful completion of the math problem/essays

I would guess that there is a smaller percentage of kids who are eligible then the people who want the test back think there are.

Anonymous wrote:So if that 1.5% of students do not perform relatively well on the test, are they still taking them?

There is no test. If that 1.5% of students has at least a 3.5 GPA and is taking Algebra by 8th, then they're eligible for those slots.