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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in one of the feeder middle school districts. Kids prep from early elementary. I’m not jealous. I wouldn’t have wanted my kids to go to TJ in a million years. Had I known the lack of racial diversity at my feeder school, I wouldn’t have moved to this neighborhood.  Not everyone wants the same things.  Get that?  Diversity.  I want my kids exposed to a variety of viewpoints.  TJ has a serious racial bias issue that needs to be solved.[/quote]

It's two different but extremely important issues that need to be solved:

1) the extreme lack of diversity - not just by race, but of social experience, economic status, and interests beyond STEM

2) the cut-throat, toxic, dangerous environment where students feel they must study for 5-6 hours a night and completely maximize their STEM profile in order to stay afloat

Someone has got to be able to get in these parents' (and honestly, the teachers also) heads and get them to understand that more studying is not necessarily better - and the admissions office needs to model that truism in how they go about selecting their incoming classes. For as educated a parent base as they have, they do not have any concept of opportunity cost or the Law of Diminishing Returns.

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3) That over 25% of the incoming freshman class is coming from one prep company.  And that there are current students saying that the prep helped them to cheat.  Oh, and that the prep company appears to ONLY serve students with Indian names.  [/quote]

Yep. That too. But improving the admissions process has to include creating an environment where this isn't possible.[/quote]

And I clarify - not an environment where it isn't [i]allowed[/i] - but rather one where it isn't [i]helpful[/i] or [i]possible[/i] for families to spend $4200 for privileged access to protected material.[/quote]

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