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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone posted here that kids who made USAMO or Jr USAMO in 7th grade did not get in, despite those taking either the top high school math students or top thru 10th grade.[/quote]

So? Excellent scores on one math exam, or a limited series of math exams, do not equate to "best suited for TJ".[/quote]

If a kid qualifies for USAJMO in middle school, that kid is one of the top 50 or so mathematicians in their grade level in the entire country.  It's hard to argue that such a kid is not best suited for one of the 550 slots at TJ.  It's also hard to argue that the base school could even come close to meeting the needs for that kid.  [/quote]

There is so much  more to being a quality TJ student than being good - or even exceptional - at math.

Failing to understand that betrays a lack of understanding of TJ as an institution.[/quote]

You are really the definition of a retard. Pity your kids.[/quote]

I don’t have any. I just happen to know TJ better than anyone on these boards and I come here because it is the leading source of disinformation about TJ anywhere on the Internet.[/quote]

You seem certifiably a retard. You just happen to know TJ better than anyone on this board. How? Why? What makes you so?

Anyone who is exceptional in whatever way - math, science, art, language, music; who would be rated say top 50 to 100 in a broadly defined field should have a place at TJ. A kid who can make USAJMO in 7th grade is the very definition of such a kid. I dont happen to know anyone personally like that but almost anyone who knows anything about USAJMO and TJ would agree. You might disagree. But there are people who argue that the earth is flat and you would fit right in.

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Someone else replied to you underneath - whatever.

[b]The kid you are talking about in 7th grade? You have no idea what the rest of that kid's profile is like.[/b]

I will say this - you are the first person I've seen advocate for exceptional talents in art and music to have a place at TJ, and there's something to be said for that.

But you've now used the R word twice - which means neither I nor anyone else should listen to word one of what you have to say about anything regarding children and education.[/quote]

DP.  The problem is that no one knows what the rest of the kid's profile is like, including the TJ admissions selectors.  The application fundamentally lacks substance.  If a comprehensive application packet reveals a kid who is elite at math but highly problematic, that's one thing.  In this case, it's likely that the kid was not at all problematic, but was leapfrogged by the other 4.0 Longfellow or Carson kids who had parents write the essays, had parents proofread the essays, googled the science question answer, or are very good at writing canned answers to generic questions.  This is what happens when admissions is based mostly on unproctored essays with no credit given for elite accomplishments.

[b]The kid I know who got into TJ should not have been picked under any real application process[/b].  The fact that he got in shows that the process is quite broken.  [/quote]

How in the world can you possibly know this?

And how do you possibly know specifically what the admissions committee was looking for in evaluating the essay responses?[/quote]

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