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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
So basically if I get my kid way ahead by signing them up for outside math they should automatically get into to TJ?[/quote]

Signing up for outside math is not the same as being capable of advanced math.[/quote]

But see, you made the pro-reform folks' point for them. The vast majority of kids at TJ who are currently in advanced math are there because their parents signed them up for "outside math". And then they run into a buzzsaw when they get to TJ because it get serious and they don't have the talent to handle it without giving up everything else in their lives and staying up until midnight or later every night - or worse yet, taking additional tutoring.

The true talent at TJ is obscured by these kids, who are referred to as the "try-hards". Those kids still get As more often than not at TJ, but they do poorly in the college admissions process relative to their peers because they don't have the real extracurricular heft to support their applications - they just have the same crap that the other TJ try-hards have (Model UN, Debate, Crew, Cross Country, etc.)

For this reason, it doesn't make sense to limit TJ to kids who present as "capable of advanced math" because at this point, the prep industry has made that phrase meaningless.[/quote]

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