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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.tjtestprep.com/data

The middle school you attend plays a very significant role in admissions

Carson, Longfellow, Kilmer, and Rocky Run MS now admit students at lower rates

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This new admission process is totally unfair towards kids from AAP center schools. For example it is much more difficult to make the cut off in Carson (AAP center) than in Franklin (base school) due to higher competition. Except for may be 3 or 4 AAP kids from my kids elementary school, who chose to go to Franklin (for personal reasons), all of the 100+ kids from AAP class went to Carson, which is the default. I wish the admission process is based on 'base' middle school instead of the school they actually attend.

To understand the competition, I believe around 50% of my kids AAP class qualified for presidential medal (names announced at 6th grade graduation ceremony) where as the less than 10% of PBL class got it. In addition, AAP kids participate at much higher rate of participation in most of the STEM activities/fairs, digital leadership, writing etc compared non AAP kids.

For the sake of the argument, How do you feel NASA reserving 4 research slots to top two students from MIT and top two students from Liberty University with out taking individual merit into consideration? Do you consider it is fair to rest of the MIT class who also wanted to get into NASA but lose out to Liberty? [/quote]

easy solution - don't go to a center. For the sake of argument, this is a public high school, not NASA [/quote]

There are AAP center middle schools?[/quote]

Yep, the hothouse flowers are kept away from the masses through 8th grade [/quote]

Yep, all the middle schools that traditionally send more students to TJ are AAP center schools i.e., Carson, Longfellow etc. The new admission process is only fair if kids do have a choice to go to either base school or center school and all middle schools offer all the courses/electives/activities equally. Regarding earlier post about 'don't go to a center' - This would apply if your kid is in currently elementary school, which I assume is true and thats why you care less. What if your kid is already in the middle school? Do you want to change the school now? In any case, TJ doesn't matter in the long run. 
 
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they only kids really disadvantaged are non-AAP kids at feeder schools. I think their caches effectively drop to zero [/quote]

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