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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do they determine the top 1.5%? Surely a lot of kids in the same middle school are going to have straight A's in the core subjects and will be in honors classes. Certainly more kids in each school will meet that criteria and want to go than the 10-15 that get selected.[/quote]
Using lottery selection [/quote]

That is literally false. Applicants are scored on a variety of factors, including grades, a proctored problem-solving essay, and the student portrait sheet, plus experience factors.   It is not a lottery. The fact that the criteria are not your preferred criteria does not make it a lottery. [/quote]

Everyone is going to have great grades and [b]most serious candidates will do well on the test[/b][b][/b]. An native english speaking kid with middle class parents and no IEP will score zero on experience factors. That's going to be most applicants from traditional feeders. When everyone has the same scores, it's a lottery [/quote]

Thank you for conceding that the test effectively screens out non-serious candidates. So the students who get through both have top grades and are serious candidates for admission to TJ. That’s not a lottery; it’s an effective admissions process. [/quote]

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