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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s this strange implication that “wealth” is somehow separate from ability. And we are really just talking MC/UMC here. But it’s true that intelligence is a heritable trait. And it takes a bit of intelligence and hard work to be MC/UMC. This is no secret.

Sorry but people with money aren’t just a bunch of idiots with inheritances. And there aren’t a whole bunch of poor geniuses. [/quote]

Kids who were admitted under the old TJ admissions process were mostly not prodigies. Plop those same kids into economically-disadvantaged families at birth and it's very unlikely that most would still end up at TJ.

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Yet massively over performed in just about every measurable including grades, SATs, SOLs, admissions tests… etc.

Sorry, but middle class successful Asians have smart kids. Your make believe life swapping is not accepted as truth but the results are.[/quote]

“Smart” wasn’t enough to get into TJ.

When they changed the admissions process to remove some of the advantages of wealth what was the result? More Asian students from low-income families. 
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If you don't test well, then what evidence is there that these kids are "smart"[/quote]

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