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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my daughter heard that students did worse than her got TJ admission and she’s waitlisted, she’s very confused. What this society is teaching the kids? Hard working is being penalized. 
I agree with helping the economically disadvantaged people. The school district could spend more resources on those kids to help them improve. I disagree with lower the standard.

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She’s waitlisted primarily because other kids scored better on the essay and portrait. The ED bonus points were a small % of overall score.

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DP.  Oh.  You're the bad at math poster who keeps insisting that the ED bonus is tiny.  The ED bonus is enough that a kid could score one full tier lower on one of the essays (worth 60 points) and earn a 3.65 GPA rather than a 4.0 (worth 26.25 points), and still come out ahead with the 90 point ED bonus.  Or they could have the same GPA and score 1 tier lower on 1 essay and 0.5 lower on the second and still be equal.  That's huge.

It is likely that at Longfellow or Carson, there were at least 50 kids who scored from 240-300 points on each essay and had a 4.0.  The 90 point ED distinction would make a huge difference.  To a lesser extent the SN distinction (which, keep in mind that a lot of affluent families game the system to get), worth 45 points, could also be a game changer.  When you combine this with the system not caring about math level and not caring about achievements, there's no reason to imagine that they're getting the best kids from the high SES schools.  They're getting the ones who have been prepped for the essays and who have best gamed the system.  [/quote]

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