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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the following are insulting and implies TJ parents send their kids to TJ to game the admissions process and that supposedly no amount of logic will convince them otherwise:

1. "It seems to me that there are just some people [b]so hell bent on the idea that TJ is the be all and end all of education for their little prince or princess[/b], no amount of logic is going to convince them that their prince or princess might actually have a better chance of being accepted to a competitive college is they sent them to a "lower" performing HS. They have drunk the TJ kool aid and can't get enough it.

2. "TJ provides Student A with opportunities that Student B will never have, such that they [b]will not appear to be equally qualified[/b] when it comes time for them to apply to schools"

3.[b]"Surely TJ supporters are brighter than this"[/b]

4. "I think you're simply wrong, and are [b]not familiar with the admissions process at the vast majority of competitive universities[/b]."

5. "I am also not suggesting, by any stretch of imagination, that a parent shouldn't [b]send their kid to TJ to game the college admissions system[/b]"

6. "Apparently [b]you don't read too well[/b]."

7. "But, [b]I'm not going to do it because I think it will suddenly make their college admissions chances a lot better.[/b]"

8. "I seriously [b]question your reading comprehension skills[/b]."[/quote]

You realize that not all of these posts were made by the Berkely poster, and that even on the gaming one, she was asked and posted that it was a typo, right?

I don't think (though I could have missed it) that anyone is suggesting that parents send their kids to TJ to game the admissions process.[/quote]

If you went back and reviewed the postings the quotes are from, it is 99% clear that they are from the Berkeley poster.[/quote]

Let's see.  There are 8 quotes, one of them is mine (#2), and I'm not the Berkeley/Yale poster.  So I think your 99% confidence level is less than air-tight.  
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