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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a troll here on DCUM who loves to perpetuate this lie.  She repeats it to support the false narrative that TJ only admitted students from exceptionally high SES families, who could afford to (as she put it) “buy the test answers.”

Her claim is not true.  It was never true.

When challenged on this falsehood, she often asserts test-preparation courses equal “buying test answers.”  But, by her twisted logic, anyone’s child who does an SAT prep session or even buys a test-prep book from Amazon, has somehow “purchased the answers to the upcoming SAT.”

Call this troll out when you encounter her lies here.  I’ve tried reporting her, but she’s apparently still around.  I’m uncertain why she harbors such hatred towards TJ or why she  insists on repeatedly lying about TJ admissions.[/quote]

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the terms “buying test answer” that often mentioned here. I even believe that you understand what it actually means and you just play dumb.
It is a test prep that has TJ test bank (means test with similar pattern on questions). You pay them.. they will teach and train and repeat and train and repeat until your kid very familiar with that type of questions.
And no, it is not the same with $20 amazon book.
(I can’t believe that I have to answer this).
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Is it same as spending thousands on learning basketball starting from elementary grades just to get into public school HS team? [/quote]

Most of the families doing that are hoping to end up at a private school with a strong basketball program to play in college on scholarship. That said, the public schools don't promote any sport. PE is the only physical class that kids have and the school is not requiring that kids take PE every day. Nor do the schools offer Gen Ed PE, Advanced PE, and the like. Sports are an extra curricular.

STEM classes, math and science, are required classes. It is not unreasonable to make TJ available to all strong STEM students across the county. The 1.5% distribution is meant to open TJ to all the MS and I don't think it is unreasonable. Some of these changes were in response to a threatened lawsuit by NAACP over the lack of representation of Black students at TJ. While the percentage of Asian students dropped with the 1.5% redistribution, Asian students are still the majority by far.

The dropping of the Quant test can easily be tied to the test banks, which plenty of TJ students have discussed. They did provide a leg up to students whose parents were willing to pay to attend the classes at the schools with the test banks. And those classes were not inexpensive. They were more expensive then similar AoPS or RSM classes that are offered. People knew what they were paying for and were willing to do so to improve the chances that their kid was accepted at TJ.

Do I think that the TJ requirements today could be adjusted? Yes. I think that math grades should include an additional weight based on the highest level math at a given school. Students at schools that offer Algebra 2 should have a weight applied to their scores, maybe a point, and students who took Geometry at that school .5 points. Not every school is able to offer Algebra 2, so students at those schools would see a 1 weighted to the geometry kids. Heck, .5 points if you want to use a universal weight. That .5 would help the geometry students move up in the 1.5% ranking at their school be be more evenly weighed against the rest of the county. The GPA to apply should be a 3.75 and students should have taken all honors/AAP classes. You could include the SOL scores for the 7th grade classes.

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