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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This conversation really reframes the idea of "merit" as being a measurable part of the TJ admissions process. This is a course that, according to their website, costs $4200 and spans 70 sessions (at $60/pop) over 16 months.[/quote]

In other words, they’re working their butts off for 16 months (!) while their peers are pissing their free time away on tik-tok, travel sports they’re mediocre at, video games, fantasy sports, and Netflix. [/quote]

There are certainly some of their peers who are doing what you mention with all of their free time. Those kids are probably not applying to TJ.

There are also some of the Curie students who are doing some of that stuff with the remainder of their free time.

There are also a ton of students out there who are working incredibly hard with TJ as a goal but who do not have access to Curie and their ill-gotten privileged test information for one reason or another, whether it's finances, lack of awareness, lack of transportation, or who knows what else.

I for one am not terribly impressed with kids who work hard only because they're under the lash of their parents, who are deciding their futures for them. I'm also not terribly impressed with the hundreds of extremely hard-working students who get into TJ every year on the strength of their boosted test scores and artificially inflated STEM resumes, but who flat out aren't bright enough to do the work once they get there without driving themselves into the ground.

[b]The biggest reason for the mental health issues at TJ is the high volume of students who don't have the horsepower to hack the curriculum and are forced into insane study habits and horrendous school-life-sleep balance as a consequence.[/b] Anyone who has a deep familiarity with TJ will tell you this - and most of the people who don't get this are parents who are in denial about what they've done to their kids.

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