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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not the applicant's job to determine what the intention of the question is and to answer accordingly, but rather to honestly answer the question that was actually asked.

The question was *not* "Is your family low-income?", no matter how much you argue that this is secretly the intended question.

If the admissions committee used a question about eligibility for free meals as a proxy for low-income, then they screwed up.  They should have asked the question to which they wanted the answer, not a different question. They especially shouldn't have asked a question which was confounded by pandemic policies.[/quote]

Not really. This is just crazy conspiracy talk by C4TJ types. The whole thing was already completely debunked. [/quote]

The TJAAG troll is back with her theory that FCPS has IRS data.  No - this is what happened.

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1. They may have 2019 and earlier info for FCPS families, but they wouldn't have that data for APS, LCPS, or other non-FCPS families. If every single kid who attends a prep center were instructed to check 'yes' to those questions, then they're counting 90-100 UMC LCPS kids as low income. FCPS doesn't care, though, as long as they can get a good press release.

2. They didn't collect income data during the pandemic, since families previously above the income cutoff may have had a loss of income or a loss of jobs from the pandemic. This unfortunately makes a very large, exploitable loophole for UMC families. Undoubtedly, the free meals question allowed some portion of mediocre, higher SES kids to leapfrog the highly gifted ones at the "TJ Feeder" Centers. If every applicant has nearly a 4.0 and decent essays, the free points for checking the ED boxes would make a huge difference.

3. There surely are some low income kids who are well qualified for TJ. The kids who are well qualified for TJ don't need a substantial number of bonus points allocated to them, especially since every MS has a 1.5% allocation. Giving them the extra points is akin to saying that they aren't qualified enough to be picked on their own merits

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