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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who are actually gifted and good students  never needed to "pay to play" on TJ prep.  It would be expected for a gifted child to score 98th percentile+ on the ACT aspire tests used previously in the application, since the tests were normed using unprepped kids.  It would also be expected that a gifted high achiever would have high grades, get strong teacher recommendations, and would have some notable EC achievements without spending a dime on prep.

Curie mainly allowed some South Asian Loudoun kids to leapfrog other South Asian Loudoun kids when competing for the LCPS TJ spots.  
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This is only sort of true.

The biggest difference that Curie made, according to TJ students who went there, was that Curie raised their scores on the Quant-Q exam because they were given access to old Quant-Q questions by former Curie students.

This is problematic for two reasons:

1) The Quant-Q was chosen by the TJ Admissions Office in part because it was a secured exam, and it would allow the Office to evaluate students’ raw problem solving ability with respect to questions they’d never seen before;

2) Semifinalists were selected using not the raw scores on the exams, but rather on the percentile score normed against the entire population taking the exams within that time window - which means that any artificial inflation of scores from exam prep for a SECURED EXAM would inflate the score that was needed in order to qualify for the semifinalist pool. It goes without saying that otherwise qualified students were removed from the semifinalist pool because of Curie and other such expensive prep companies, and those kids who were kicked out would have come from everywhere.[/quote]

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