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I agree with you, but the fact is that there has been a steady deterioration in the math level of the students who are admitted, precipitating a crisis this year since almost 30% of the frosh class is considered inadequately prepared for the rigors of the program and has been placed in remedial math instruction. Before you jump to conclusions and conclude that it's the blacks and latino kids who aren't doing well, it's mathematically impossible for that to be the case--blacks and latinos make up less than 5% of the class. Furthermore, as the letter points out, most of those kids come from private schools, so they're in all likelihood not disadvantaged.
The fact is that the increasingly subjective application process has let in a lot of underqualified white and asian kids whose families[b] have figured out how to game the system [/b]by writing the "perfect essay", saying the right things on the student information sheet, securing excellent recommendations, and packing their kids' after-school hours with science-related stuff, whether the kid is good at it or not and likes it or not.
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This is a problem.  Many people have enrolled their kids in TJ prep classes for a year or more before they take the test.  Last year kids who needed help in Algebra II were identified less than a month into the school year, so the math issues existed before entry into the TJ program.  
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