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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there are kids who declined AOS/AET because they got in TJ, this will be a disaster for them.[/quote]

How is it a "disaster"? They can verify that they indeed qualify for FARMS (as they stated on their application), and they will remain at TJ.[/quote]

Because there will be students who are unadmitted from TJ as a result of this fiasco, and people make important life decisions on the basis of information such as admissions decisions.

The TJ admissions office apparently counseled applicants that they could answer yes because everyone was receiving free meals during the pandemic. Even those who didn't obtain such counsel may reasonably have believed that answering yes was honest and truthful regardless of their economic circumstances. As such, it is unfair to claim that everyone who answered yes is a liar or a cheater.

If the point of the question was to ask whether one would have been eligible for free meals even if the pandemic policy was not in place, they should have carefully asked the right question. They instead used an old application (it also asked about teacher recommendations and made reference to semifinalists, both of which are vestiges of the old admissions process) and failed to update it in light of the new admissions process or the pandemic policies.

Having failed to ask the right questions, they should not have automatically awarded FRM points to anyone who checked yes without confirming FRM status. They could have asked for verification of FRM status back in October or November.

And no matter what else they screwed up, surely they should have sorted this all out *before* issuing admissions decisions (and a press release touting the FRM numbers)! [/quote]

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