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To be clear, I'm referring to outside help in the elementary and middle school years leading up to applying to TJ. I wonder if the kids who take after school and weekend math classes for so many years get so accustomed to the outside extra help that it becomes natural to seek extra help when struggling with a math class at TJ.

I agree with you that TJ students should be able to handle the math without outside help, except very occasionally.

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Are you the same poster that keeps posting that the problem is TJ kids who have been getting outside tutoring all their lives?  It's no secret that there are lots of kids at TJ who got tutoring through ES & MS school.  But you seem to assume that these kids are all of a sudden stopping their tutoring once they get to TJ and then they can't keep up in Math.  Believe me, the TJ kids who have been getting tutoring in ES & MS are continuing to get tutoring through TJ.  They are not the ones that are needing remedial Math.  I agree with the other prior poster who said that the problem is they've changed the admissions process to take more well rounded kids, or maybe not well rounded kids necessarily but to have other factors (like essays) count more than the Math/Science tests.  I have no issues with TJ taking other factors other than Math & Science into account, if that's what they want to do.  Heck, be like colleges and take race, passion & sports into account, for all I care.  [/quote]

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