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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, had nothing to do with trying to avoid Asian American kids.

More people might apply because they think they can be admitted because they dropped the standards — no test, no teacher recommendations — and added non-merit factors like experience factors and quotas for schools.

The result will be a completely different TJ with less rigor and less cool stuff.  But it will also have fewer Asian
Americans so the goal will have been achieved.[/quote]

Rigor and advancement are not the same thing. They are frequently correlated, but they're not the same.

Merit and advancement are not the same thing either.

There's a reason that most TJ teachers are excited about these changes.

But you're right about the teacher recs. It's a mistake to have dropped those - yes, they are prone to bias, but a well-trained admissions committee should be able to account for it in constructing a narrative about each student - and I think it's really hard to construct one that's sufficiently differentiated without them. They probably needed reworking rather than scrapping.

And finally - fewer Asian Americans has never been the goal. It is a necessary consequence of the goal only because the current representation is SO dramatically skewed. The goal is and has always been a stronger learning environment that is accessible to exceptional students across the entirety of FCPS' diversity spectrum.

The admissions office - while grossly understaffed and underfunded - knows what they are doing and will construct a class that will succeed and represent TJ well. Kids flame out at TJ as it is right now (about 8-10% do not graduate from TJ), and some will under the new process as well.

By far the biggest challenge the class of 2025 will have is the mistaken perception from the classes above them that they somehow don't belong just because they didn't have to take the Quant-Q. I am curious to see how the TJ Administration handles that situation, as they haven't really done enough to address the toxic and hypercompetitive environment that currently pervades the school.[/quote]

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