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Why is there such a racial/ethnic disconnect with TJ Admissions?
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Anonymous
Not really. There are a few bright stars that got a chance to shine in America that the corrupt systems made impossible in their native countries. Most guest workers are average (I am being charitable here) and only have the edge over American-born because they are cheaper. |
Anonymous
I saw a Kindergarten-age test prep class out in Chantilly comprised of 100% Asian students. Please do not suggest Asians are doing no prepping for AAP. |
Anonymous
The post says "most of the Asian prepping is for TJ" not all of the Asian prepping. It didn't say no prepping either. You should read more carefully. |
Anonymous
Yes, because we know all the posts here on this forum are statistically and factually accurate. 
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Anonymous
if you want to discuss being corrupt, US is about the only country among the developed nations (Western Europe, Japan etc.) where you can bribe your way to any of the top universities by paying millions. Even China, does not allow such pay for play to gain admission to their top universities (Partially why they are forced to attend US, European universities since such bribery and corrupt behavior is not allowed). How ironic. In addition, even assuming most of the Asian hi-tech industry workers (engineers, computer programmers, systems engineers, scientists, statisticians, applied mathematicians etc.) as well as healthcare workers (nurses, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians etc.) were average, the effect on the economy would be devastating if suddenly all of them disappeared. Who will replace them? Not whites, not Hispanics and not blacks. |
Anonymous
Again, not all the posts are accurate obviously but you should not change the wording of PP which will certainly not improve the situation and make the situation worse. Try to be more positive, that's the American way since it seems we are all for the American way. |
Anonymous
So true HAHA! |
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Anonymous
Buying your child a seat at the top university should be abolished. What's next, paying million dollars to have your child become Intel semifinalists? |
Anonymous
Yes, everybody gets a trophy. |
Anonymous
Korean-American here. I went to a magnet high school in another state and went to Harvard. My parents could not afford to send me to these so called prep classes but I had many friends who did from a very young age. These after school classes are a way of life in Korea. You go to school after school. I don't think anyone test prepped to gain entrance to my magnet high school. It was relatively easy to get in. In Korea, you gain entrance to college based on one test. Koreans are just used to studying/prepping for a test - TOEFL, SAT, GMAT, LSAT, GRE, MCAT. My parents always told me how lucky I was to be in America because I did not need to study so hard. I thought I studied pretty damn hard but not compared to my Korean counterparts living in Korea. In early elementary, the kids usually learn reading and math fundamentals like in Kumon. By middle school, kids are prepping for the PSAT and SAT. 20 yrs ago, the Korean parents in my area were obsessed with their middle school child scoring high on their PSAT/SAT so they could get into CTY. They thought that if you scored high on your SAT in middle school and get into this program, your chances of getting into an ivy league were high. I very clearly remember feeling bad I never even took the SAT in middle school and my parents never applied to this CTY program. Fact was that if you scored high on your SAT in middle school, you were surely going to score high on your SAT in high school and most of these kids did get into ivy league schools. I do think it was easier to get into top colleges 20-30 years ago. DH is a doctor and aced his MCAT and medical boards. Guess what? He studied his ass off and prepped for those tests. There was no TJ in his neighborhood and he went to his local neighborhood high school. He may not have prepped for some TJ test but he was prepping for his SAT. I have no interest in sending my kids to TJ. I do plan to send my kids to Kumon and SAT prep. |
Anonymous
| Why are you not interested in sending your kids to TJ? |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
| Haha, those above actually think more than 2-3 people per year are paying their kids' way into a university? And when those kids graduate, their parents are rich enough to start a business for them. So what? That is at the margins. What you have with TJ is first or second generation American families - scraping their way up from poverty when they had to flee their home country - with the brains and effort to excel enough to get in on academics alone. This is our story - our DC, non Asian, will be at TJ this year. DC's grandparents escaped Soviet Russia with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and survived, thanks to the graciousness of US immigration policies. This is the face (and fact) of TJ. |
Anonymous
what was historically beneficial for all of society has become a major cost to the middle class "graciousness of US immigration policies" has become a corporate subsidy, pushed by the upper 1% we need to reduce all immigration until the middle class has recovered, excess immigration is taking american jobs. let people do their amazing work in the country they were born in russia, india or china. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/the-typical-household-now-worth-a-third-less.html?_r=0 Economic inequality in the United States has been receiving a lot of attention. But it’s not merely an issue of the rich getting richer. The typical American household has been getting poorer, too. The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal number of households whose worth is higher and lower. But during the same period, the net worth of wealthy households increased substantially. |
Anonymous
Almost all of the TJ students are U.S. citizens and most of them were born in the U.S. Your assumption that many if not most TJ students were born in Russia, India or China etc. is incorrect. I would guess that you or your ancestors were immigrants to this country too at some point. |