By dropping important information from the test and teachers’ recommendation, that 321 is way weaker than that 330 in the old system |
It's been proven that teacher recs are too often racially biased so they had no choice but to remove them. The test also was rigged since too many students with means were simply buying the answers from various prep centers. The old system was toxic and broken. |
If the bolded is true, then it's odd that college admissions still relies so heavily on teacher recommendations. The same is true for every elite summer program or grad program. Heck, TJ still heavily relies on teacher recommendations for its own froshmore admissions. They're even the primary factor in FCPS for AAP eligibility. The reality, though, is that FCPS removed teacher recommendations because they weren't going to give them the racial demographics that they desired. |
what do you mean simply buying the answers? From where? |
There is a history of legitimizing discrimination against Asian Americans. What is laughable is there are insecure asians who support discrimination against their own race. https://exhibits.stanford.edu/riseup/feature/timeline-of-systemic-racism-against-aapi |
That's laughable. We're talking about a race-blind selection process that overwhelmingly selects more Asians than anyone and even the new system had the most significant impact on low-income Asian families. |
not specific to asians. there are self hating in every race. insecure, ashamed of their own heritage, go out of their way to only bad mouth their own, hoping to assimilate and be accepted as another race |
There's a distinct sense of arrogant confidence among public authorities that, among all minorities, the Asian Americans would tolerate racial manipulation and not react vehemently or violently. No one dare pull this kind of maneuver at those other two universities. |
Stop spreading misinformation. ZERO students were automatically granted admission. They ALL had to meet the criteria and go through admissions/evaluation process. |
So the only people entitled to attend TJ are affluent Asians? |
Please stop this BS. No study has proved and can prove what you claim. To prove that, you need to randomly assign race to one same student then see how his/her teachers’ recommendations differ by assigned races. This sounds ridiculous and impossible as your claims. Basically, there is no way to prove definitely either the old admissions or the new admissions to be racially biased. We only see clearly that the new admissions obmits key information abour applying students. This system has led to much larger pool of unprepared and less motivated students joining TJ. This has resulted in low teaching/learning quality, 10x higher dropout rate, and the significant drop in TJ’s ranking. |
This is such a dumb post. Proven? What nonsense! Why do college admissions use teacher recommendations then? |
Thumbs up! |
Get over your obsession with “Asian take test preps” if you truly want your kids to do better in school. Majority of Asian kids are not from well off families who can afford tutoring and test preps. They only start learning math early in ES and work harder in MS. |
I am fine with the admissions change. Carson and Longfellow are still getting plenty of kids in.
-parent of waitpooled Carson student |