FCPS School Board meeting July 19 6 - 9 pm re: TJ Admissions

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Anonymous wrote:This is interesting...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-schools-insider/post/parent-group-pushing-for-tj-admission-changes/2012/07/20/gJQAHpsqxW_blog.html#pagebreak

Talks about the study that Fairfax County Association for the Gifted did on the admissions.

One thing the study revealed (to quote from article linked above)

"Among the most counterintuitive findings: Downplaying math test scores may contribute to the continued underrepresentation of some minority groups at TJ.
For example, according to FCAG’s analysis of admissions data for the Class of 2011, 25 Latino students applied to TJ. Of those, 11 were among the total 489 students admitted that year. But three of the rejected Latino students had scored above 45 out of 50 on the math admissions test — a performance that put them in the top 440 applicants based solely on test scores."

This is misleading. Over 200 Hispanic/Latino students applied to TJ. The 25 Latino students mentioned in the FCAG materials were those who scored over 40 on the math admissions test.

How do they know that? Do the applicant's indicate their ethnicity on the application? (A spanish surname, BTW, does not make someone a Hispanic or Latino.).