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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is really disheartening to AAP kids especially at feeder schools. You work really hard to stand out and when its time to start seeing first glimpse of positive outcomes, the rules are changed below their feet that nullify everything they are good at and stand out and loose out to others who did the bare minimum in whats essentially a lottery in flatted out selection criteria and not able to even qualify for significant booster criteria coming from other factors. [/quote]

These kids have all sorts of resources available to them. They will be fine. 
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Its really easy to say when you are not in their shoes! Just think about it in another way, you are part of a 10 member sales team and 5 of them made the sales quotas, but you produce the most results. But the company doesn't care anything beyond the min quota, picked one at random (or a hypothetical race?) who happened to the least performing of the 5 and gave all the yearly sales commission to that person. Then comes back to you say, you should be fine as you are really good at what you do. :).

In this employee's case, there is a chance to win commission again next year, but in case of TJ, you need to understand that this is a really [b]once in a life time opportunity[/b] for many of these kids and they hate it to be taken away for stupid political reasons or some kind of weird balancing act at their expense. Don't play games with kids dreams and hard work. If they truly don't deserve it, then its fine. But don't it for some macro level statistics and ignore micro level implications. 
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No kid is guaranteed admissions or entitled to a seat.

Maybe parents shouldn’t be positing TJ as a “once in a lifetime opportunity”. That’s not healthy for their kids. 
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