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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, there isn't a requirement to plan "for years to go to TJ and giving up tons of other opportunities during your formative years"  That's not what TJ should be about, and many successful kids DON'T do that.  However, if that's how one chooses to parent, who am I to tell them differently.[/quote]

Oh yeah, I mean, knock yourself out if that's how you want to parent your kid. My argument is that it shouldn't help with the TJ process, and if it didn't, you'd find far fewer parents who choose to do it that way. But right now it does, and the Curie scandal proves it.[/quote]

IT only helps the TJ process for kids who aren't naturally talented. There are some who take the test cold and don't do all the stressful prep but still get in.[/quote]

Yep! And I firmly believe that the process can be tweaked to still identify those naturally talented kids but separate them from the ones who, because they only get in because of prep and hard work, end up having to annihilate themselves when they're at TJ just to survive. It doesn't help anyone for those kids to be at TJ.

It's not that hard work is a problem - it's that if you have to work unbelievably hard in order to qualify for TJ, it's probably going to overwhelm you once you get there.[/quote]

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