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That isn't accurate. The changes were done to give all students a fair chance not just those whose parents spend $10k on prep classes.[/quote]
Wasn't that already accomplished by the 1.5% per school quota?  Did they also need to completely gut the application in a way that makes it impossible to distinguish between academic outliers and merely above average kids?  [/quote]

They did not need to gut it, but by doing so, they decreased the ability to distinguish between high ceiling applicants. I can only assume that they did so to ensure future TJ classes are less competitive as a whole, which means that kids who get in but who were not particular STEM standouts will have a less chance to fail once they are there. Reading between the lines, they are strategically covering their butt in case the diversity they engineered backfires later (with respect to more kids not being able to keep up, or going back to base school). Basically in their eyes TJ is too competitive and should be toned down a bit, and the simplest way to do that (other than a lottery) is to just remove stringent admission requirements. [/quote] you raise  very good points, but SB is not that smart and they don't care at all what will happen to TJ down the road. There is no accountability. Their true motivation is personal -immediate political points, as was clearly evident in the TJ papers released as part of the lawsuit[/quote]

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