Talk:Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
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Somebody should discuss privileges like curfew extensions and travel weekends.
There are quite a few 'failed' TAMSters who never manage to leave Denton. Think it would be NPOV to mention that the strain of adjustment to the social and academic environment is too much for some students, or that many traditional students tend to shun the TAMS students? Don't want parents using Wiki for info to think it's a perfect wonderland before they send their kids off. Tallasse 15:17, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
- This is probably a good idea, though those kids are definitely in the minority. Still, I remember that several of the people working at the 7-11 near campus were former TAMSters.
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[edit] Clean Up
Along with trying to find citations and cleaning up bias, I'm proposing to change the structure to
- Academics
- Student Life
- Rules and Regulations
- Notable Alumni
"McConnell Hall" would be a subcategory under Student Life and the common rooms would be placed under that. Visitation, Disciplinary Rules, and Pranks would be merged under Rules and Regulations.
[edit] macrats
This section needs work and neutrality...
[edit] Misinformation
This article fails to cite its sources in most aspects, much of it should be deleted as it is a matter of opinion. -James Eldred
Also much of the technical aspects of admin and academics is a bit weak and needs to be expanded.
[edit] Students
Do the student at tams have a forum or something a way to communicate?
- There are a couple alumni communities, but I dunno if there's any forum for current students. You might look around at TAMSAlumni.org. - Tallasse 01:03, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
- Because of politics between rival alumni groups, there is no single established alumni community that has been widely accepted by TAMS alums. - 6 July 2006
Physics isn't hard at UNT, it is dead easy due to the curving of the grades. The only people who do poorly in physics are the students that don't do the homework, and instead use the spreadsheet (which is cheating) to get all the answers without doing any of the work.
- I disagree. I took Physics as a TAMS student quite recently, and it was tough for 90% of us. It's a challenging subject to begin with, and on top of that, the UNT physics professors aren't the greatest. There was a lot that we had to teach ourselves to make up for that. Most people used the spreadsheet to get the answers and later figure out how the answers were derived, so they could work a similar problem on an exam. People who did this were usually fine. Keep in mind that easily 70% of TAMS students use the spreadsheet every year - this is not a cause for poor performance in physics. Students who don't understand the material (and don't want to put in the effort to learn) use the spreadsheet and do nothing else. But as a former TAMS student, I promise that you couldn't find more than 10% of students every year who would call the course "dead easy," unless something has drastically changed in the past few years since I graduated.
- Part of the problem came from which physics class students were required to take. At least through the class of 1999, students were required to take engineering, calculus-based physics. The problem I had with that had to do less with my ability to study and more with the fact that I was taking calculus at the same time. The high school I came from didn't offer it until senior year, so I was one of the lucky ones that took Pre-Cal their first year at TAMS. If the administration allowed us to take a regular physics class, I'm sure it would have gone a lot smoother. From what I understand, from the 2000 graduation class and on, students were given the option of which physics class to take. That may explain how someone could consider it "dead easy" nowadays, while the rest of us remember the horror. (July 7, 2006)
- Close, but not quite. The graduation class of 2000 still took Engineering Physics, my class just seemed to have a lot of physics-minded people in it (as opposed to biology or chemistry). The option to take either Calculus-based or Algebra-based began no earlier than the Class of 2001 (M. Madison, Class of 2000, January 16, 2007)
- I took medical physics in Fall of 2002 and I wouldn't call that easy at all (also, there was no spreadsheet for this class). Some people just don't click with physics, just as some didn't click well with bio while others thought it was easy. It just depended on your interest, I would have thought your time in such close quarters with other Tamsters for two years would have taught you that. --Kugamazog 12:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Whitewash
Whoever Tawker is, you're playing semantics by repeatedly reverting the edits. Students aren't "asked" to leave. They are told, and required to come collect their belongings a week before the spring semester kicks back up (if they fail out in fall). "Asked" implies some sort of voluntary acceptance by the people being kicked out.--Kugamazog 02:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Advanced Academy of Georgia
Would anyone who worked on this article be willing to improve the Advanced Academy of Georgia article? My friend created it when he noticed that our Academy wasn't on Wikipedia, and it's never been edited. He made some links and such, but it's devoid of information. I would feel much better knowing that someone has done the article justice. Thanks. Vancar 19:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scholarships and awards
Where do these numbers come from? It sounds like there were made up for a powerpoint presentation to impress the parents of potential applicants. I couldn't find these numbers on the TAMS website or anywhere else.
Most verifiable information regarding TAMS is produced by TAMS administration, and is therfore not verifiable. For example, students are told that while they are not guaranteed admission to the University of Texas at Austin, all who apply are accepted. This is blatantly false, as at least 10 were rejected out of the Class of '06. I assume this is to dupe foolish UT hopefuls into attending TAMS. 129.120.8.196 23:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment as of March 2007
Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school site. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and, as requested, I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of Low on this importance scale.
My reasoning is as follows: This article has lots of biased information and even a bit of unchecked vandalism. Needs referrences and quite a bit of other work. Adam McCormick 06:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
