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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real name. Took the prep class.

https://www.tjtoday.org/23143/showcase/the-children-left-behind/
[i]“ Families with more money can afford to give children that extra edge by signing them up for whatever prep classes they can find. [u]They can pay money to tutoring organizations[/u] to teach their children test-taking skills, “skills learned outside of school,” and [u][b]to access a cache of previous and example prompts, as I witnessed when I took TJ prep[/b][/u]; even if prompts become outdated by test changes, even access to old prompts enables private tutoring pupils to gain an upper edge over others: pupils become accustomed to the format of the writing sections and gain an approximate idea of what to expect.”[/i][/quote]
No one is debating that prep courses help the affluent.  That's obvious.  It's also enough on its own to justify some sort of change to the admissions process.  I have no doubt that prep centers now have their own cache of math problem solving essays as well as portrait of a graduate essays, both from the ones asked in the last few years and ones they made up on their own in a similar vein.  Prepped kids will still have an unfair advantage.

This is also not proof of #5 in OP's post.  There's no indication that the cache of previous questions was unfairly obtained or amounted to anything on the scope of selling the test answers.  It's also highly unlikely that the author attended Curie, based on the last name.

I like the 1.5% allocations.  I dislike paring down the application packet so it has no substance and cannot differentiate between a top kid and a pretty average one.  
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I like the seat allocations.

Be transparent in how the top 1.5% is being considered and adjust that to a weight for the level of math. The kids coming from schools with small numbers of students taking Algebra 1 in 7th grade will mean that there are kids attending TJ whose highest level of math will be Algebra 1, that is fine. I don't think those schools are getting more then the allotted 1.5% into TJ. The Schools where there are kids taking Algebra II should not be sending kids kids with only Algebra 1 to TJ. Create a weight for level of math that is equal to the FARMs, ELL, and IEP weight. I think it is an easy fix that would allow for kids who have a late start due to different opportunities at home and their ES have a shot at TJ while more likely capturing kids who are strong at math and advanced enough to take advantage of the unique offerings that TJ has. [/quote]

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