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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I predict not. I believe the root of the issue is lack of interest, so a lottery, or even an open admissions policy, won't fix that. [/quote]
What you don't understand is that many highly qualified URMs don't want to attend TJ because they think they won't fit in. DD is a straight A student in AAP at a TJ feeder and she refuses to apply to TJ because she thinks she will not fit into the culture (a culture of cheating, racism, few minorities, few girls, etc...). This is sad considering that she loves STEM and wants to be an engineer. [/quote]

[b]Then she will hate engineering school and working as an engineer.[/b]  If she's actually passionate about engineering she won't care.[/quote]

THIS IS THE PROBLEM[/quote]

Engineers tend to have INTJ personality types who obsess about details and have high passion for their work.  The ones that are more extroverted tend to move out of design and into leadership roles.   How would you expand beyond that personality type?  [/quote]

I think it really depends on the daughter's end goals and the type of team and company she wants to work at. TJ is probably good prep for a certain type of engineering gig in Silicon Valley but there are far more, very different engineering jobs out there.[/quote]

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