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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a bit of a negative feedback loop.  There’s a community of TJ alumni who are extremely worried that TJ has lost its cachet in certain circles and have invested enormous amounts of time trying to change TJ admissions so that it’s cool to attend to TJ again (and they can continue to take as much pride in their TJ diplomas).  In large measure that has involved stigmatizing the Asian students who have sustained the school for years.  But the Asian kids get the message that their presence is less valued and an increasing number of qualified kids no longer apply to TJ.  The net result is a stagnant and more recently declining applicant pool. [/quote]
No this doesn't really make sense, TJ is already top ranked nationally; it hasn't lost anything. I doubt any alumni worry about that or really care at all. If anything, some alumni who had a bad experience with regards to pressure/stress might care about making it better in terms of lowering that stress.

Also, Asians are not any less interested in attending than before; it's that the other demographics that are not really interested by comparison. And that makes sense as I explained in the prior post, a culture of academics above all else just isn't popular in non-Asian circles. Just look at the local schools, sports dominates the culture over academics and it will continue to be that way. Kids these days are brought up to value hard work less than in the past, so if they perceive an environment of all work and no fun, they will not want to attend.

TJ is a niche environment for kids who are smart/nerdy, are motivated and willing to work hard, and also feel like they can belong. Compare that to a base school where they would have a hard time finding a large enough peer group with similar interests. At TJ they don't have to worry about that since academics IS the culture; everything else might also exists but takes a big backseat. The college analogy to this is MIT/Caltech (and very few others) compared with some random school. Completely different environments.[/quote]

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