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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you hire at your company do you hire the best applicant or the one the deserves it...[/quote]

The county's mission is to educate the public and was funded by taxes so your analogy doesn't stand up. However, it can also be argued they are selecting the best especially since they made an effort to negate the effects of these expensive prep schools which skewing admission to make mediocre applicants appear gifted.[/quote]

after so many discussions, there are still people using the prep test as the excuse. It is the looser's logic. 
It is ok to cancel the prep test. The capable kids are still capable. They only fail with the ugly geographic quota admission policy. [/quote]

I am not proponent of prepping, but I am sure you know that its unavoidable. Earlier kids used to prep for math and science and now they are prepping for essays since essays alone pretty much decide the admission in this new process. Prep centers already started creative writing classes and I know at least a few who got private writing coaches just for TJ essays. Ultimately TJ shifted from stem to just writing focus i.e. just need decent grades and very impressive essays and nothing else is actually required or considered. [/quote]

+ 1 
The strong supporters of the new process, are you really under the impression that new process is actually effective at identifying the 'real' stem talent in TJ aspirants? Just read on another thread that kids with 6 stem electives, stem after-school activities and awards along with perfect grades didn't get in, possibly because they didn't have impressive essays - assuming its true, is this how we would like to see TJ in the future? I believe these kids are likely from logfellow/rcms/rockyrun centers where pretty much everyone has 3.8+ gpa, essays will be a deciding factor (600 of 900 points are decided by essays), especially since electives/after-school stuff isn't taken into consideration. 
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What’s wrong with prepping? Why the opportunities should be given to student who do not even want to spend efforts preparing for something he/she want so badly? You need to prepare for audition, final exam, university admission, job interview, and many others, right?[/quote]

People on these forums always looking for that one diamond in the rough even if it’s sacrificing 100s of gems along the way. At the end, you are not even sure you found that diamond. The fact of the matter is everyone one prepares for every thing and those with ‘right’ kind of preparation will usually succeed. In case of TJ, under old process, either kids who are naturally geniuses at stem or prepared enough to reach that level were able to get in. While under the new process, either kids are naturally good at writing or been coached how to craft impressive essays got in. Preparation didn’t go away, just that essay prep took the front row. As more people realize this, TJ will turn into a language prep school  :D [/quote]

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