Anonymous
05/18/2021 10:19
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
I actually expect them to do this with TJ as well. The difficulty is families using their resources to pose relatively average kids as "gifted" through test prep and favored access to STEM competitions.
You see the same problem in sports with families who pose their kids as having massive potential by doing tons of outside training - but a skilled and experienced coach can weed these kids out in the tryout process and place them appropriately. Coaches refer to these kids as "tapped out".
You just made this up. Consider the test a tryout if that makes you feel better.
No I didn't. Learn more about how things work and return later.
Anonymous
05/17/2021 18:32
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
I actually expect them to do this with TJ as well. The difficulty is families using their resources to pose relatively average kids as "gifted" through test prep and favored access to STEM competitions.
You see the same problem in sports with families who pose their kids as having massive potential by doing tons of outside training - but a skilled and experienced coach can weed these kids out in the tryout process and place them appropriately. Coaches refer to these kids as "tapped out".
You just made this up. Consider the test a tryout if that makes you feel better.
Anonymous
05/17/2021 18:30
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
If there are thousands of kids more than ready for TJ, they should open a second STEM school to serve those kids. I could get behind that effort.
If that were true, they were "ready", why do so few make the cut on the test? It literally knocked out 2/3 of the applicants before round 2.
If you knew anything about the actual admissions process, you wouldn't ask this question. The standards for qualifying for the semifinalist pool in the last few years have been about achieving percentile thresholds on the exams, not raw scores. So for example, it's not enough to get a 95% on the reading exam if the 75th percentile is a 96%. It's more complicated than that, but trying to explain it here would take too long
This is part of the reason why test prep was such a huge problem. It moved the bar for what a successful score was.
"womp-womp"
Anonymous
05/17/2021 17:15
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
they all need to be removed for this debacle
Anonymous
05/17/2021 14:48
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think they are say mid June as they will begin offering the top students first (late May) and then move down the list so it will take time to hear if you are one of the last ones to get an offer.
Is this satire? I can't imagine they will adopt a rolling admissions process. It's bad enough that they set up a system where kids will try to figure out after the fact whether they were "1.5%" admits or "residual pool" admits.
The idiots on the School Board who pushed this "compromise" approach like Elaine Tholen need to be removed from office.
Anonymous
05/17/2021 14:44
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:I think they are say mid June as they will begin offering the top students first (late May) and then move down the list so it will take time to hear if you are one of the last ones to get an offer.
Anonymous
05/14/2021 11:36
Subject: Re:When do we hear about TJ admission?
There is no way a second TJ is built. People are peeved enough at one TJ, the idea of a second will cause a mass uprising. There are overcrowded high schools across the county and they cannot get the new regular high school built.
Anonymous
05/14/2021 11:26
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
If there are thousands of kids more than ready for TJ, they should open a second STEM school to serve those kids. I could get behind that effort.
Sounds great! But it's gonna cost the taxpayers an arm and a leg. The recent renovation to TJ's existing building came with a $100M price tag. Maybe you get the corporations to step up, but that's a pretty big ask. It would be incredible to put one of these in the western part of the county.
Anonymous
05/14/2021 11:25
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
I actually expect them to do this with TJ as well. The difficulty is families using their resources to pose relatively average kids as "gifted" through test prep and favored access to STEM competitions.
You see the same problem in sports with families who pose their kids as having massive potential by doing tons of outside training - but a skilled and experienced coach can weed these kids out in the tryout process and place them appropriately. Coaches refer to these kids as "tapped out".
Anonymous
05/14/2021 11:22
Subject: When do we hear about TJ admission?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How are the students ranked?
They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ. Basically they will do whatever they want.
Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.
You couldn't be more wrong. If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that. You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.
If there are thousands of kids more than ready for TJ, they should open a second STEM school to serve those kids. I could get behind that effort.
If that were true, they were "ready", why do so few make the cut on the test? It literally knocked out 2/3 of the applicants before round 2.
If you knew anything about the actual admissions process, you wouldn't ask this question. The standards for qualifying for the semifinalist pool in the last few years have been about achieving percentile thresholds on the exams, not raw scores. So for example, it's not enough to get a 95% on the reading exam if the 75th percentile is a 96%. It's more complicated than that, but trying to explain it here would take too long
This is part of the reason why test prep was such a huge problem. It moved the bar for what a successful score was.