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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know this kid but he might have bombed the essays.[/quote]

And it just happens that TJ's attrition rate has increased 10x despite the new Algebra review sessions and new no-fail policy for freshmen.[/quote]

This is completely false. In a typical year pre-covid, you would see attrition of 25-35 students in each freshmen class. It's essentially the same under the new admissions policy.[/quote]

You're just wrong. On average, there was 1 freshman goes back to base school each year pre-covid. Now, it's 15-20 a year. [/quote]

No, you're just wrong. The admissions office has been admitting 15-20 froshmores per year for over a decade. Do you think the class size was increasing year over year?

Check your facts.[/quote]
More like 40-50[/quote]

OMG. Can you guys stop talking about kids who are unprepared for this school? This is not the case at most middle schools. At many AAP schools there are at least three times the amount of kids that can handle TJ workload that don't get in. Maybe more. If some kids struggle at TJ because of this 1.5 percent allowance for each school, so be it if they want to go. It's still a worthwhile experience for them and they have the option to return. If TJ and TJ interested parents are really that worried about other kids not making it in they can always increase their enrollment or start mini LLIV TJs at the high schools.[/quote]

Most of the kids getting into TJ came from school that sent 10 or fewer students.  So a lot of them were chosen to fulfill the quota. There is a good chance that they are not prepared.

What is happening here is that people realized that tjhsst provides a reptational benefit and that benefit is not being evenly distributed across races so they are trying to distribute that benefit across races.
They are trying to appropriate the benefits of a reputation that was built on merit and distribute it based on race.

If you want equity, it has to start a lot sooner, high school is too late.  Start with equity in the aap programs that way you will have more urm kids that have the academic background to excel.[/quote]

There is also a high level of randomness in the admissions of students from schools like Longfellow, Carson, Frost, ... [/quote]

Yep, my kid got in but his friend who is objectively got an exceptional math brain got waitlisted.  It seems unjust.[/quote]

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