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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please await next years’ scores - the class of 25 will be the first coming out of the new and improved process.  [/quote]

I’m the loudest and most well-informed advocate for TJ admissions on this thread. I’ve probably sent a thousand replies and posts over the last few years talking about the critical importance of opening TJ to the entire spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds represented in Northern Virginia. And I will go to war with anyone on here about the fact that things are going really well at TJ three years into the new process.

But I expect standardized exam scores to go down somewhat next year because [i]we are no longer overselecting for test taking ability in the admissions process.[/i]

In the old process you literally could not become a semifinalist without strong test-taking skills. Students could be absolutely brilliant but if they were not strong in a standardized test environment, for whatever reason, they were cut out of the process.

So yes, the scores will go down slightly, almost for certain. And it doesn’t matter, but you’ll get a bunch of myopic trolls on here with an archaic and limited idea of the concept of merit who think it does. And they’ll needlessly insult thousands of kids in the process.[/quote]

Even if your argument is right (that the prior admissions process overselected for test taking), how do you know that the current admissions brings in a more meritous population?  "Not overselecting" is not congruent to "more meritous."

As evidence, note that SAT scores are highly correlated to college success outcomes, so there is a strong positive correlation between test taking skills and college success.  To the extent that these are correlated, admitting worse test takers means admitting worse college-succeeders (on average).[/quote]

I’m not arguing that the new population is [i]more[/i] meritorious. I’m merely arguing that they’re not inherently less so.[/quote]

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