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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not clear what you all are arguing about.

However, it appears TJ admissions cannot compose a class by overwhelmingly admitting students from bottom low performing schools, but instead depends on the top four middle schools to overwhelmingly fill the top one third of the class.  Based on last four years of admission offers, is this true or false?

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I don't know about the "top 1/3" bit but they do rely on 4 schools to fill 1/3 of the seats.
They are not getting the best and brightest from carson, longfellow, and especially not rocky run (where going to TJ seems to largely be a matter of who is willing to commute an hour each way every day for high school).
You can't really predict where the top kids will come from but you can predict where the kids at the bottom will be from.  The kids getting in from quota schools are much more likely to be in the bottom third of the class.
They are much more likely to return to their base school.
And the tragedy is that if they applied a merit filter, they would be better able to identify kids at those base schools that are more academically prepared to handle a place like TJ.[/quote]

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