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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great post^^!

The whole point is people were paying for prep courses to gain a leg up on an admissions process that was designed to find [b]natural talent[/b] not grinder skills. So the board blew it up and likely over corrected in the process. But the x% per MS is the best part of it and that is not going anywhere. Hopefully in a few more years they will tweak it again though to use base MS not attending MS (to fix AAP center problems) and re-add teacher recc’s to make it more likely they pick the top kids at each MS. But they should never go back to considering extracurriculars - that was super unfair in my view. [/quote]

You mean like the black kid at woodson that developed a cancer treatment and didn't get into TJ?
Noone is selecting for "natural talent"  
The best way to measure cognitive ability (short of individual assessments by a psychologist) is a standardized test.  This is a fairly well established maxim and has never been refuted by a replicable psychology study.[/quote]

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