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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fun to try to blame wealthy people as cheaters. That’s just a distraction and coping mechanism for the real issue. the real issue is URM test performance across the board, including at the new TJ.

For those against equity policies, the TJ admissions changes are showing in real time the results from PSAT to SOLs to math levels. And the results aren’t good.

Now I dont necessarily disagree with opening TJ for all, but let’s not pretend the URMs weren’t getting in before because cheaters. URMs perform measurably worse than their non-URM peers. Otherwise we wouldn’t be addressing those gaps all the time in various academic environs.

That still hasn’t changed. Yes even for URMs at TJ, the gaps still persist.[/quote]

Expensive test prep has also been an ongoing issue that [u]exacerbated[/u] the lack of representation from many MSs and groups.[/quote]

This has largely been debunked by a harvard study and that is one the primary reasons why so many top schools are returning to a testing requirement.
The test scores measure academic performance among the wealthy as much as it does among the poor.

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SAT_ACT_on_Grades.pdf?ref=framechange.com[/quote]

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