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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Because not everyone can afford the prep courses or had parents that put them in Saturday school starting at age 3.  Also, I thought we wanted to identify gifted kids.  Prepped and gifted are not the same.[/quote]

well said and very true![/quote]

There is a very small percentage of truly gifted kids.  That is why they don’t classify it as such anymore. I actually feel the kids that are self driven to be the gems.  Love the kids that yes may be considered smart but not gifted (prepped or not), but want to work hard in all that they do even when it doesn’t come easy.  There are very few people in life that don’t struggle academically at some point.  Please know that kids still prepped TJ this year.  They practiced writing essays and touting the portrait of a graduate and holistic traits. On the positive side, extra writing practice is always a good thing. Unfortunately that is where some got the unethical idea of claiming “free lunch.”  [/quote]

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