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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is easier to dump all over TJ and try to get it shut down than to actually acknowledge and do the work to improve skills and resumes of those who are not currently making the cut for admission.

Sounds like laziness. Keep that same energy for preparing other minority groups for TJ application and maybe you can get somewhere.  [/quote]

All of this crap about how changing the course of admissions will be "lowering the standards" needs to stop. There's a difference between lowering the standards and changing or improving the standards so that they will do a better job of identifying students with potential rather than taking a snapshot of what kids have already been exposed to.

Right now the TJ admissions process does an exceptional job of identifying kids who are a) great test takers and b) have been shoehorned, usually by their parents, into a STEM career. It does NOT do a great job of identifying kids who have the potential to change the world or serve their communities. To be sure, there still are these kids in every class at TJ, but there are an overwhelming number of what a previous poster referred to as "prep drones" who have vaulted themselves above other, more qualified candidates through artificially high exam performance and artificially strong STEM resumes.[/quote]

This is a STEM school. not some flowery liberal arts high school. The admissions requirements are good for STEM[/quote]

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