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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year? [/quote]They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying [i]past[/i] questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies[/quote]

No, it's not that kind of test.  The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test.  Which they did.  Problem solved.  People complain, but people complain about everything.[/quote]

The test was the SHSAT.  The current "test" isn't actually a test.  It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"[/quote]

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids![/quote]

We were at the open house last night.  My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff.  I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result.  The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist.  Those hearings were racist AF.[/quote]

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.[/quote]

The more accurate measure would be what percentage of Blacks/Hispanics who applied and got in?  The raw number in each class means nothing.[/quote]

Yesterday’s TJ admissions release has those stats. It’s actually relatively proportional overall. The big oddball is that FARMs status meant you were twice as likely to get in vs your rate in the applicant pool. [/quote]

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