TJ admissions results out?

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Anonymous wrote:https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Exhibit-B-PLF-Memo-Master-122-PLF-Memo-ISO-MSJ-with-unredacted-and-unsealed-exhibits-12.22.21-copy-2.pdf

So “experience factors” were just a small % of overall score.

Guess the haters will need to find something new to whine about.

I don't call 1/3 of the score a small percentage

Also, you have to remember most of these kids have a high GPA and did very well on the problem set so the only differentiator left is the the profile and extra factors

90/1125

8% of total max score

This is some bad math. The score is effectively out of 900 points, as that is what is available to all kids with no experience factors. The minimum possible score is 3.5*75 + 60 + 60 = 382.5. The maximum is 900. So, effectively, there is a 517.5 point range between the minimum and maximum possible scores. Economically disadvantaged isa bonus of 90/517.5 = 17.4% of the total score range. Kids who are truly economically disadvantaged are likely to also get the 45 points for attending an underrepresented middle school, which would then be a bonus of 135/517.5 = 26% of the available points.

A 3.5 GPA + Economically disadvantaged gives 352.5 points.
A 3.5 GPA + "underrepresented school" gives 307.5 points
A 4.0 GPA with no experience factors gives 300 points

The experience factors are huge.

Wow. That's some creative math gymnastics to make an invalid point. They aren't "huge" when you compare to the most significant scores -- the essay and the portrait. Funny how you left those high-point scores out. 240 points in play for *each* of those.

And it's disingenuous to exclude the experience factors. They do count towards the total score.

So the available points for the total score are 742.5. And ED is 12% of that. Not "huge".

Well, using your math, a super genius kid who is nationally recognized in math or science, is in calc as an 8th grader, with perfect scores on all portions of the application but without any experience factors can only earn 517.5/742.5 = slightly less than 70% of the point range.

No matter how you try to obfuscate the facts, the experience factors are huge. It is likely that in the higher SES schools, the point cutoff was higher than 900, meaning that kids without experience factors had no chance whatsoever to be picked for TJ, no matter how extraordinary they are.

This is the problem with this reform.

The reformers see these kids from High SES schools as collateral damage in their crusade for equity. Fact is each of these is an individual with her/his ambitions who have worked towards a goal for many years. We teach our kids that life is tough and you can and will lose in fair competition. But what do you tell kids who have been eliminated even before the competition started? This is the new America?

No kid is entitled to TJ. No matter how long their parents have been prepping them.

It is easy to reduce achievement gap by just cutting off the highest achievers rather than improving everyone's achievement levels. It is like removing the people who hurt the curve. Unfortunately there are long term impacts to this self destructive strategy in a competitive global economy.

There were many seats open to the entitled “highest achievers”. They added some seats for other highly-qualified students as well.

Yep. Entitled to do hard work.

Hard work doesn’t guarantee admission. Non-entitled kids realize this.

Definitely increases probability of success.

It does but how do you know how hard the kids that got in worked? You don’t. Maybe their parents could not afford prep academies and tutoring. Maybe they have to do household work and take care of siblings while their parents work 2 jobs. You have no idea.

You are talking to someone who grew up in poverty your entitled self can't even imagine So save it. Hard work helps. Would I have been better if my parents were millionaires? Maybe. If that didn't kill my ambition and drive.

You have no idea who I am or where I came from. I’m not disagreeing that hard work is essential. My only point is there are different types of hard work and different struggles. So just as you have no idea who I am and what struggles I’ve had or how hard I worked, the same is true of the TJ admittees that you seem to think did not work as hard as your special snowflake.

White saviorism

With the recent widespread of protests for black civil rights and against racism across the Western world, the topic of white prejudice has risen to the centre of public attention, of which one manifestation is the so-called ‘White Saviour Syndrome’. Whether it is Ed Sheeran posing for ‘Comic Relief’ with a number of black children (Hinsliff, 2019), Madonna adopting children from Malawi (Hinsliff, 2019), or students going on adventures advertised for ‘young philanthropists’ within a multi-million dollar gap-year industry (Bandyopadhyay, 2019), numerous cases of altruistic acts of ‘White Saviours’ can be found throughout popular culture in the global North. Whereas these practices follow an altruistic narrative, they are commonly criticised as serving to satisfy a ‘White Saviour Syndrome’, the phenomenon in which a white person “guides people of colour from the margins to the mainstream with his or her own initiative and benevolence” which tends to render the people of colour “incapable of helping themselves” and disposes them of historical agency (Cammarota, 2011: 243-244).

Nice try. You lose. Try again.