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"homogeneous group of students who are indistinguishable from one another"

Well you've revealed your bias.  You're not going to be able to make a convincing case for your views after that.  Randomly tossing in words like "correctly" and "undeniably" isn't going to fool anyone.[/quote]

I mean, that's what college admissions officers say about TJ and its students[/quote]

[citation needed][/quote]

You can't cite conversations and no admissions officer in their right mind would ever put it in writing.

But yeah, they can't tell the difference between the 150+ applicants every year who all have 4.3+ GPAs, all do Model UN or Debate, all have the same AP profile, all have attempted to start up their own non-profits, and all want to study some flavor of engineering, CS, or pre-med. And if you've been on the ground at TJ at all in the last ten years, you know that this is the reality.[/quote]

So let me guess, you want to diversify TJ by admitting students who will have lower GPAs, participate in fewer extracurricular activities, and have no career goals.[/quote]

Let's see.... yeah, they'll probably have lower GPAs, but only because they won't overload themselves with too many AP classes, resulting in fewer bonus points (and less toxicity and stress within the building). They won't participate in fewer ECs, but the ones they do participate in will represent more diverse interests and result in less cutthroat competition for limited leadership positions within those clubs that people mistakenly believe will lead to elite college admissions. And yeah - there's a good chance that they won't have their career goals completely figured out by the time they're 13 and applying to TJ, but by being exposed to outstanding education in all fields, STEM and otherwise, they'll probably end up with a more diverse set of aspirations when they leave the school - meaning you won't have kids mercilessly battling for those precious few spots in the most "prestigious" senior tech labs and mentorships.

And as an added bonus, the white and Asian kids will have a much more robust learning experience by being exposed to different perspectives, which will prepare them for the rapidly-changing professional environment in front of them that TJ is well behind the curve of. They'll write better on their college essays and probably get into better schools as a consequence. And the white and Asian kids who are "left behind" and forced to go to their base school (for shame!) will shine brighter within that environment and probably go to a better college as well than they would have being in the bottom 20% at TJ.

People really don't understand how traumatizing it is being in the bottom quartile of TJ as an Asian student. Go look up TJ Vents on Facebook. It's terrifying what these kids put themselves through.[/quote]

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