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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you sound great & thanks for creating this thread!  Wish you all the best.

These 2 questions are NOT for you specifically, but:

- what do other TJ students think about the school board’s alterations to TJ admissions? Also,

- how do other / older students view those students who were only admitted because of the SB’s alterations to the admissions policy?

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DP but also a current TJ student!

1. As far as what other TJ students think about the admissions changes, it obviously varies a lot depending on who you're talking to. Almost everyone will talk about how their parents are upset about the changes because they think that they'll devalue our diplomas and the prestige of going to TJ, but a lot of students aren't really worried about that. There are a lot of students who think it was a mistake and there are a lot of other students who think it's great to have more students coming from different places. For me, coming from RCMS, it was kind of awkward to go to TJ and immediately have almost 100 kids that I knew there already - it sort of made it hard to reach out and make new friends because it was so easy to fall back in with my middle school crowd. The new classes still have plenty of kids from RC but it's not like a quarter of your IBET will be from there.

2. There's a couple of ways to answer this question. There are obviously some kids, like I mentioned before, who think that any kid who shows up from PW, or a school like Whitman, or is Black or Hispanic only got in because of the new process. But the reality that most of us understand is that there have always been SOME kids who are from those schools that don't send many kids, and there have always been A FEW Black kids and Hispanic kids and kids from PW. So there's really no way for us to know who is who, and it's kinda mean to just assume. And I mean, even if they did get in because of the new process, it's not their fault. They didn't get to choose the process.

Before this year, I could go an entire day at TJ without seeing a single Black kid. I've only ever had one in any of my classes. I think it's really cool that those kids don't have to feel alone anymore. And the same goes for the kids who got in from less represented schools. While coming in here with a hundred other kids was weird, it would have been a lot worse to be the only one, and the new process makes sure no one is in that position.[/quote]

Oh - I forgot to add.... apart from the fact that there are more of those Black/Hispanic/PW/etc kids, and that there are a LOT more of them who are in TJ Math 1 and 2, you really can't tell that much of a difference in talking to them. There are 2025s in my math class and they've done great. There are 2025s in my clubs and they're no different from the rest of the kids were when they were freshmen. I know a couple of kids who dropped out this year but I also knew a couple of kids in my class who dropped out because TJ wasn't the place for them. It's one of my only complaints about TJ is that you shouldn't feel like you have to transfer if you're not all STEM, and it feels like admin is working on that.[/quote]

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