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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We appreciate that your thread is about nothing so much as rubbing it in the face of kids who likely would have been admitted to TJ in the past that they've been turned away.

At the end of the day, the Post is a bastion of elitism.  It's owned by a Princeton graduate, and the article was written by a Harvard graduate.  They want to make sure that elite institutions continue to remain the focus of everyone's attention by admitting more URMs, so they retain their cachet.

It would be interesting if the Post did a follow-up story interviewing four kids who had exceptional credentials, but were denied admission to TJ and ended up at their base schools.  Were they depressed and disappointed freshmen year?  Or did they end up having a great freshmen year and feeling like it all worked out for the best?  We'll never know because their stories won't be told by the Post.  Hannah Natanson already knew she'd write this story from the moment the School Board started discussing changes to the TJ admissions process in 2020.  If and when these four kids graduate from TJ in 2025, there will also be a sequel, but the experiences of the 96% of FCPS students who attend other high schools will continue to be ignored.  [/quote]

See, again, here's the thing.  MANY highly competent and capable kids were denied admissions by both systems.  Your assumption is that there is only one way -- the old way -- to decide who among those kids deserves admissions and who doesn't.

There have always been exceptional kids denied admission to TJ.  [/quote]This is going to bruise some egos, but in TJ's heyday there was a very clear natural break between the kids who got in and the kids who didn't even make the first 800 cut.  Pretty much everyone academic who actually wanted to go, got in.  There were some kids who wanted to be more general ed and some who didn't want to commute who were even more qualified than many of the kids who went.  However, the ones who blamed money or race didn't even make the first cut of a blind computerized test and were notably struggling in Pre-algebra, Life Science, Social studies, and English.  They just couldn't see it and failed again in college admissions and at work.  However, some after working alongside people who could produce more easily at work got over their egos and finally became productive.  It takes a lot for exceptionally weak students to see it though.[/quote]

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