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See this - "they rejected more than 100 of the 376 applicants with scores of 47 or higher on the math portion of the admissions test, which has a maximum score of 50. " They rejected students who scored well on their math admissions test because they didn't meet some imaginary diversity criteria - it's obvious that some students in the resultant class would struggle with math.[/quote]

There are only about 480 TJ slots, and they care about more than just one math test.  If those 100+ rejected kids scored worse on their science reasoning and verbal tests than the kids who scored a mere 45 or 46 on the math test, or if they had poor recommendations or poor essays, it all makes perfect sense.  If anything, I'd argue that filling over half of the TJ slots with kids who performed well on a single math test suggests that TJ is highly valuing math ability.

There really isn't some great conspiracy where TJ is overlooking kids who are gifted in math.  The kids who get perfect scores on the TJ math test, qualify for AIME in middle school, and place highly at State Mathcounts are getting in.  The kids with decently high scores, but nothing too impressive (i.e. AMC 8 honor roll) are sometimes being rejected in favor of kids who are slightly lower in math but shine in other arenas.  This seems completely appropriate.  [/quote]

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