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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The per school quota would be fine if it was something like scores of 860'1000 getting the quota seats while top schools had 100 kids and 50-100 score from just a little higher and all the kids are about equally capable. 
  Instead you have even within the top schools the top kids are not taken.  It remains to be seen how the quota kids will do.[/quote]

At my kid's school, those inexplainable decisions negatively affect all students. Those top performing kids are not only doing great in class but also respected by their friends for club and extra activities. Taking average and below average applicants over these top performers makes everyone question the fairness of the system. Now try to explain equity to 14 year old kids.[/quote]

At my kid’s school, the students who get accepted mostly as predicted, they are mostly the top students, there are few outliers but it is not a shocking as they are also smart students. There are also top students who wait listed.
Before the acceptance announcement my kid (and his circle of friends) well aware that nothing guarantee to get accepted, everybody think everybody will get in but him/herself and they also understand that it is not enough seats for everyone.[/quote]

I think this is likely the case at the lower and mid tier MSs. Our base school is a mid tier one that did not use to send hardly anyone to TJ (still only a few as it’s just not that popular a thing here). I think at those schools the math clubs and competitions are less common so kids who apply look more similar - just varying by who did algebra in 7th.

It is at the old TJ feeder schools that do have the math clubs and completions where the new system REALLY needs a way to find the outlier kids and right now it is not doing that it sounds like. I’m on the teacher recc boat of thinking that would help for these schools. [/quote]

Teacher recs have been proven unreliable and biased. That's why they are no longer used.[/quote]

And yet they're used heavily in the TJ froshmore admissions process.  Hmm....[/quote]

They should be eliminated since it's well known they are racially biased. [/quote]

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