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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) [b]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.[/b]  [/quote]

"That over 25% of the incoming freshman class is coming from one prep company". - So what? The number of students who actually enroll here must  also be a large percentage of the total number of students who take TJ test. Also preparation from here or any other such place or prepping at home will improve scores on stadarized tests.
"And that there are current students saying that the prep helped them to cheat." This is untrue. They may have used cheat in the sense that they were prepped on the kind of questions that are asked on the test. [b]You can go to Amazon and buy ACT books and prep[/b].
"Oh, and that the prep company appears to ONLY serve students with Indian names" -  Again not true. It is open to you and everyone else who can afford to and don't mind spending  $4,200.

Finally if your kids are planning to take TJ test and you are serious about it, you have choice of doing self prep or going to one of these places. Or you can chose to do nothing, whine and waste your time here posting unsubstantiated things.[/quote]

The problem here is not the ACT Aspire exams. The problem is the Quant-Q, which is closely guarded and disallows anyone who sees the exam from sharing information about it. It is timed and strongly values speed in solving the problems - which is much easier if you've seen the exam before.

TJ kids are starting to come out of the woodwork on multiple fora stating that they had the questions, answers, and strategies provided to them by this company, and that they know students who provided those answers to the company. This is a HUGE scandal that almost certainly won't result in any charges, but absolutely [i]must[/i] result in substantial change to the admissions process. [/quote]

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