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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at what happened to CCNY (City College of NY) used to be called "poor man's Harvard". Like TJ had to take a test to get in. Free school. Everyone who scored high enough got in but the test was a bear! Then some said the test was unfair to some minorities. Now the school is CUNY and Hunter College is part of the system. I don't see how dumbing down the test is the answer. It will mean the end of TJ.[/quote]

I'm sorry but I'm from NYC and I have never heard of CCNY referred to poor man's Harvard.
I did attend Harvard and no one cares where you went to high school. Admissions tries to get a diverse student body. I had plenty of black and Hispanic classmates but many were international students or students who attending boarding school. There are plenty of intelligent students of color in this world. [/quote]

Google it and you'll find dozens of references.  And, both the Harvard admissions office and other students care where students attended HS.

But, CCNY is a college and TJ is a high school.  Different levels.  One could just as fatuously start invoking the impact of open admissions in CUNY if the issue were expanding the availability of Level IV services to third graders.

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