Prepping/Scamming the Cogat

[Anonymous]

Haha, these last two posts get repeated on here over and over again.

We get it, you're trying to make it sound as though the methods used by "test prep" businesses simply involve studying and preparing. The difference has been discussed over and over again on this thread. Some people understand the difference, some people never will.

[Anonymous]

What does "test" prep business have to do with discipline and preparation for tests, studies and work? What are you smoking tonight? All successful and productive students prepare and prep for their craft to hone their physical and mental skills, talents and acumen. This practice has occurred for centuries. What does test prep business have to do with this time honored concept? Was the scientist Louis Pasteur referring to "test prep" business when he claimed chance favours the prepped mind? Please grow up. I have no interest in your infatuation with test prep businesses and will not invest a dime there. As a teacher and former athlete, I will encourage all children, including you, to work hard and prep for their studies and tests in the classroom ... and physical skills on the pitch. Steady and dedicated preparation will definitely improve intelligence, athleticism, achievement and performance. These plain and simple observations have held up since woman graced the earth.

[Anonymous]

How did students prepare and prep for their tests and exams in the 19th century? Did they use "test prep"businesses?

No student has ever prepped for tests and exams until the arrival of "test prep" businesses? True or False.

Students that prep for test "without" "test prep" businesses are ethical and those using "test prep" businesses are unethical?

Parents, older siblings, teachers, librarians and self-study prepping for tests are not business entities unless the entity is incorporated and "pays" taxes or money is exchanged?

Does paying exorbitant private school tuition constitute a financial exchange and thus constitute a "test prep" business?

[Anonymous]

The definition of "test prepping" has been explained on this thread many times. It is very different from the other types of study you mention.

It is really not that difficult to understand unless one just does not want to understand it.

[Anonymous]

^ kids used to get into TJ by being intelligent, motivated and sucessful academically. Now you have the new breed who have merely been prepped to the nines, often for a year or more. No kidding, just checked the website of a certain test prep business in Herndon and the class for 6th graders for the TJ test is all full. Something is definitely lost when you get all of these type of people into an incoming class, hence the pejorative "robot people."

[Anonymous]

Hard work preparation for tasks in life is a good thing. America needs more of this AND not qnti-preparation lazy BuMS.

[Anonymous]

+1

These lazy bums all want a free ride.

[Anonymous]

disease state = entitlement syndrome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:disease state = entitlement syndrome

little drones - can't function unless prepped. This is obsessive/compulsive behavior that can crowd out a normal happy life.

[Anonymous]

kids used to get into TJ by being intelligent, motivated and sucessful academically. Now you have the new breed who have merely been prepped to the nines, often for a year or more. No kidding, just checked the website of a certain test prep business in Herndon and the class for 6th graders for the TJ test is all full. Something is definitely lost when you get all of these type of people into an incoming class, hence the pejorative "robot people."

The irony here is this self-professing expert on TJ has never attended TJ, or walked on the campus, and no doubt doesn't even have the 1/10th of the brain power to make the cut. Keep talking nonsense. We are all getting a big laugh.

[Anonymous]

+1000

The weak always makes excuses when there own kids fail to get into TJ. We are sorry the demographics at TJ have changed over the last 20 years and "darker" and "less intelligent" kids are now getting in.

John King, CNN

[Anonymous]

isease state = entitlement syndrome


little drones - can't function unless prepped. This is obsessive/compulsive behavior that can crowd out a normal happy life.

....beats being a compulsive and obsessed little lacrosse drone with similarly obsessed dim parent in hand!

[Anonymous]

This thread as jumped the shark

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

isease state = entitlement syndrome


little drones - can't function unless prepped. This is obsessive/compulsive behavior that can crowd out a normal happy life.

....beats being a compulsive and obsessed little lacrosse drone with similarly obsessed dim parent in hand!

I know a "little lacrosse" drone who is getting into Princeton. Full scholarship. And another into Penn, same same.
also some who got into Ivies and top SLACs via crew. Apparently these top schools really like sports accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Haven't little lacrosse and crew drones gotten into Ivys and SLAC for centuries? What is new here? Perhaps lacrosse and crew are just surrogates for fair and light skinned (legacy and wealth)? If sports were so important to these schools as you claim then why is not track and field or boxing top of the line here?

I agree with you. Lacrosse and crew are much more important to IVYS and SLACs then you are led to believe...just like what country clubs you belong to in the Potomac Valley!