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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's your evidence that HS admissions at private schools isn't by academic merit?[/quote]
Just call any of the admission offices at these privates and ask them if a straight A kid with high level math and science with superior writing skill and a 99 percentile in SSAT (this is what they use) is guaranteed an admission and compare what they say with the TJ admission process.[/quote]
Private schools want a student body comprising of kids who also excel in non-STEM subjects.  So your narrow definition of "academic merit" is flawed from the start.[/quote]

Did you missed the part on superior writing skill and 99 percentile in SSAT which requires solid command of language (the very base of everything STEM and non-STEM)? and BTW a typical TJ kid is not only advanced in STEM they are advanced in Non-STEM as well compared to an average private school students. Typical TJ classes are taught at college level.[/quote]
Being good at writing doesn't make you good at everything non-STEM.  That's ridiculous.  And I went to TJ -- the idea that students there are advanced in non-STEM is complete hyperbole.[/quote]

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