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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For many years, people have been appalled at how a public school magnet excluded so many groups in the community. The class of 2024 had less than 1% (0.6%) of the students from low-income families. Very little representation from URMs and MSs with many low-income families. TJ was mostly filled with kids from affluent "feeder" middle schools.

FCPS has changed the TJ admissions process multiple times over the years to address systemic inequalities. 
https://www.fcag.org/tjadmissions.shtml

Expensive test prep has also been an ongoing issue that exacerbated the lack of representation from certain MSs and groups.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/04/26/is-the-no-1-high-school-in-america-thomas-jefferson-fairfax-discrimination/
[i]“Is it gonna once again advantage those kids whose parents can pay to sign them up for special prep camps to now be prepping for science testing as well?” [school board member] Megan McLaughlin asked when presented with the new plan.

Admissions director Jeremy Shughart doesn’t think so. The firm that markets the math portion of the test, Quant-Q, doesn’t release materials to the public, a practice that should make them harder for test-prep schools to crack.”

"McLaughlin, like other board members, still worries about Washington’s booming test-prep industry. Modeled on Korean “cram” schools, classes meet after school, on weekends, and throughout the summer. “They’ve become professionals at that process of getting into TJ,” says Josh Silverman, a private tutor in the area."[/i]

Paying to have access to previous test questions on an NDA-protected test provides an unfair advantage to wealthy kids in admissions for this public school program.

[b]When a huge portion of the admitted class comes from an expensive test prep company then you know something is wrong.[/b]
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BINGO![/quote]

If you're talking about curie, then curie isn't test prep.  
Noone does test prep for a high school entrance exam in K-6 and then keep doing it in 9-12.  
They do offer a $300 test prep course to current students but there is nothing magical about their test prep that differentiates them from other test prep courses.  
What differentiates curie students is the YEARS of extra study.
Curie may have a higher pass rate than the general population but it does not approach 100%.  It is a lot closer to 25%.
The overwhelming majority of what makes curie students more qualified is the years and years of studying before they have a single test prep class.

[b]You are effectively wondering why studying leads to better academic results.[/b][/quote]

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