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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait-list is moving.  One of the stronger students at our school just got in[/quote]

Which school?[/quote]

Lake Braddock.  800 kids in 8th grade, and only 12 were admitted.  I am summing someone must have declined.  An Alg 2 student, 4.0, just got in off of WL.  t
The initial offers seemed (based on hearsay ) to go to Alg 1 students.[/quote]

All the affirmative actions admits must be getting scared and declining. More decline, stronger the class would be and fewer getting kicked out or leaving.[/quote]

Actually the fewer preppers admitted the stronger the class would be too[/quote]

What?!?  Are you seriously bad mouthing the students of the #1 high school in the country?!?  Please stop your nonsense.  It's OK to say you don't care if the student body is weaker because of equity concerns, but at least admit it.[/quote]

Define “weaker”[/quote]

Fewer gifted students, fewer exceptionally high IQ students, lower standardized test scores, less successful in competitive academic pursuits, contests, science fairs, and competitions.[/quote]

1) Fewer "gifted" students: Unlikely that this will be the case. Fewer advanced students, perhaps.

2) Fewer exceptionally high IQ students: Severely unlikely that this will be the case as there were not that many at TJ to begin with.

3) Lower standardized test scores: This will certainly be the case because they are not overselecting for test taking ability. But it's pretty much irrelevant to the school environment.

4) Less successful in competitive academic pursuits: There will be somewhat fewer individuals on these teams, but the kids who actually compete in these competitions for TJ will still have gotten into the school. A lot of parents severely overestimate how many of their kids would have been in these positions.[/quote]

TJ will drop in every metric.  Every single one.  But here's the thing - [b]we don't care[/b].  This is about opening up the opportunity to underserved communities and non-traditional students.  You care about scores, we care about helping the entire community gets its gifted STEM kids on the path to STEM leaders representing a broad cross section of society for the next generation.[/quote]
Exactly what a white liberal racist would think.[/quote]

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