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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tjhsst is not what it used to be before pandemic. Now admissions are not merit based, but diversity focused. UVA admissions is responding accordingly [/quote]

Oh so it's not merit enough to be one of the top students in your middle school just because it doesn't perform as well as the wealthier schools? Sounds like you think merit is really just giving spaces to those who are able to buy their way into TJ. [/quote]
[b]wealthier schools? top feeder school are all public schools.[/b]  Of course, the process is broken, if students are returning to base school unable to handle TJ curriculum.  [/quote]

Oh please the schools that were traditionally feeders to TJ were all in wealthier areas of the counties, with the best teachers and more advanced programs. You can't pretend that the schools here are all equal. And students have had that problem long before this change because being able to do well on the test doesn't actually measure how well students will be able to handle the environment. Just like the SAT it really just measures who has the most money and time to prep for it. [/quote]

This TJ admissions process has been in place for half a decade now.  The number of URMs in the freshman class is significantly reduced by the time they are sophomores and further reduced among the students moving on to ivy+ schools.

If the objective is to have a more diverse freshman class at TJ, then mission accomplished.
If the objective was to expose URM stude4nts to high rigor, then it happened at least for the freshman year but less by sophomore year and at the cost of torpedoed GPAs for the kids that returned to their base school and for many that stayed.
If the objective was to use TJ as some sort of pipeline for URM to top colleges, this didn't happen.  At all.
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