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Anonymous wrote:If the top 1.5% of students receive an automatic offer, why are students from certain middle schools rejecting their offer?

That’s not how the admissions process works…

how does it work, and why would the top 1.5% not accept an offer?

It’s not top 1.5%, it’s the top 1.5% of those who apply.

What?? No! Just think about the numbers. A slot is allocated to 1.5% of students per school and those slots are given out to the top applicants for each school, assuming they meet the minimum requirements for TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:If the top 1.5% of students receive an automatic offer, why are students from certain middle schools rejecting their offer?

That’s not how the admissions process works…

how does it work, and why would the top 1.5% not accept an offer?

It’s not top 1.5%, it’s the top 1.5% of those who apply.

As people have said from day 1, the TJ case has no merit. It would be laughed out of court.

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Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

What cheating? Who was involved?

Students at TJ are minors so there are obvious privacy considerations for the school. A friend of mine taught math there for years and says that they know of many incidents of cheating that occurred over the years, but as a professional never talks about specifics. I recall newspaper stories about cheating there from years ago- you may be able to Google them.

Is it a bigger problem at TJ than at any other high school? Hard to say. Possibly gets more attention at TJ than at other schools.

You are fabricating falsehoods, and your clues reveal that it's untrue. Envy can drive people to fabricate stories. While there may be a few bad apples in a truckload of apple baskets, condemning the entire truck is foolish. Previously, there were isolated incidents, but now cheating is consistent, especially in the last four years, and everyone knows what has changed.

Wow, I assure you that I am not “fabricating falsehoods.” I have no reason to “envy” TJ- my child graduated from TJ within the last ten years, so before the admissions changes.

I did a lot of volunteer work there while my child was a student, so I am very familiar with the school. I did a lot of research before allowing my child to apply, in addition to talking to my friend who taught there. I also always kept a good dialogue going with my child about right and wrong, honesty, and what constitutes cheating and plagiarism. We sometimes had discussions about kids he knew who had been caught cheating and why those actions were wrong.