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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I skimmed but I don’t see anything about the impact of test prep on academic disparities.

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If (as the argument goes) test prep is primarily limited to the "wealthy" and increases test scores in a way that did not reflect actual ability
then you would expect wealthy kids with the same test scores as poor kids to underperform the poor kids.
They don't.
Wealth may correlate to higher test scores but the test scores reflect actual ability and not wealth.
IOW, wealthy kids actually have higher academic ability on average than poor kids.

If you want to fix that, selective high schools and elite colleges are not the place for that remediation.
It should probbaly happen a lot sooner.[/quote]

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