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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are the students ranked?[/quote]

They have not been clear about how the various factors like GPA and SIS score will be weighted and they will consider “experience factors” which are intended to introduce the specific kind of diversity they intend to achieve but have nothing to do with readiness for TJ.  Basically they will do whatever they want.[/quote]

Thousands of kids every year have more than adequate "readiness for TJ". TJ will be just fine.[/quote]

You couldn't be more wrong.  If it was a Governor's school for band or performing arts you wouldn't be saying that.  You would expect them to find the truly gifted kids that excel in those focus areas and admit them.  [/quote]

If there are thousands of kids more than ready for TJ, they should open a second STEM school to serve those kids.  I could get behind that effort.[/quote]

If that were true, they were "ready", why do so few make the cut on the test?  It literally knocked out 2/3 of the applicants before round 2.[/quote]

If you knew anything about the actual admissions process, you wouldn't ask this question. The standards for qualifying for the semifinalist pool in the last few years have been about achieving percentile thresholds on the exams, not raw scores. So for example, it's not enough to get a 95% on the reading exam if the 75th percentile is a 96%. It's more complicated than that, but trying to explain it here would take too long

This is part of the reason why test prep was such a huge problem. It moved the bar for what a successful score was.[/quote]

"womp-womp"[/quote]

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