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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look into the colleges admissions system now, I started to think that TJ is mirroring them, they are almost all holistic approach. Colleges, are not using a single test to determine the acceptance, and they are not even considering perfect SAT and GPA as the most important factor, they look at so many aspects. They look for well rounded candidates. 
Even the TJ essay that people here heavily mocked as “sob story” that was actually used also in colleges admissions process and that is a big factor.[/quote]

TJ is not doing what colleges are doing.  It is nowhere close to a holistic approach.  They have reduced the number of things they are looking at.[/quote]

Off course it is not exactly the same, they screened 13 yo Middle Schooler, they don’t expect you to proof you did 200 hr community hours or publish a research or Olympic level athlete, or state level musician, but at least they are no longer measure it on one single test, and they are actually factoring the background they came from, like it or not…[/quote]

They never measured it with one single test. 
The problem was that the test selected for academic ability and Asians became grossly overrepresented and all other groups became underrepresented.  And race was the scorecard by which some members of the board determined the success of the program.

Now they have added a geographic quota and consider socioeconomic factors.  Which is their progressive, rut removing the test entirely was a mistake

I wouldn't mind if TJ considered athletics along with academics.   Athlete scholars are a real thing.   [/quote]

They removing the test and replace it with taking the 1.5% highest in each MS, I don’t see that as an entirely mistake.
I see the battle here are mostly just between the student who is rank 76th at Carson who is now replaced by 1st rank student at Poe. The top 30-50 students at regular top feeder are mostly still be admitted regardless new or old admissions.[/quote]

It's not the highest 1.5% of anything.  It's a fukn essay.  And no, a lot of the top students at Carson and Kimber and other places aren't getting in because admissions is an almost random cross section of the applicant pool.  Some of them go through the effort of applying as a sophomore but your creating hurdles at that point.  [/quote]

The new process selects the top 1.5% of students. The old process favored students whose families could afford to buy early access to the test from expensive outside cram schools.[/quote]

Yes, and this was reported by TJ students who had been surprised that they had been prepped on the exact problems as the old teat. [/quote]

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