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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. [/quote] And yet you have schools like stuyvesant, bronx science and brooklyn tech where most of the students are in fact from poor families. [/quote] NYC has a different admissions environment/process. For TJ, less than 1% of the class of 2024 came from economically-disadvantaged families. [/quote] TJ is not an anti=poverty program. TJ has gone from admitting 25% FARM students for the class of 2025 to 10% for the most recent incoming class. I suspect they will try to keep it at 10% but I don't think aiming for demographic results is as good as aiming for academic results.[/quote]
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