The system is working as intended. That black kid might actually do well at TJ, which of course can't be allowed. I bet the white essay readers really connected with the essays written by the white kids. I doubt the black kid (whose parents assumed the selection process was fair) prepared for the portrait of a graduate "exam" as well as the white kids (whose parents knew better) |
That's not true. Langley has half the diversity of McLean yet they were given an "8" for equity. McLean got dinged not because they lack diversity, but because their diverse/low-income kids are failing. However they are succeeding at Langley. |
Wrong. Ranking will be worse next year. |
These rankings mostly hurt diverse schools since you get penalized if you have low-income kids. |
Nah, with the improved diversity it should rise to new heights. Right now it's just lagging behind and showing issues caused by the old corrupt selection process. |
Is that so! for some reason Stuyvesant with 42% low income, four times that of TJ, doesnt seem to be complaining about the same rankings process. Unlike TJ, perhaps they are not admitting underqualified or playing the blame game? |
People are arguing about different things. GS rankings and USNWR rankings are not the same thing. |
False. The data is quite clear in showing that the group that benefited the most from the admissions changes were low-income Asian students. Which, by the way, constitute the balance of the students at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech that everyone likes to bring up constantly. Never ceases to amaze me how some people on these fora feel it's appropriate to so casually insult the kids who are currently attending the school. |
Well, they are admitting low-income Asian students, who had essentially zero access to TJ for decades but do now under the new admissions process. How do you feel about that change? |
That is a lie. Total Asian representation went down from 73% to 54% in one year. Asian students were deliberately exluded from expanded seat quota, and algebra1 selections increased 7 times knowing well Asians had higher math of Geometry or higher. |
Equity politics uses low-income as facade to perform racial balancing. If admissions change truly aimed to increase low-income the Asian representation would have increased, but it decreased. Even within low-income, Asian students had much higher math and science SOL scores than other ethnic groups. No matter how you slice and dice, every piece of factual data suggests Asian count should have gone up, if not for the racial balancing effort that squeezed them from 73% to 54% in one year. |
The total number of low-income Asian students went from one in the Class of 2024 to 51 in the Class of 2025. Even you can understand that level of math. I'll grant you that the number of wealthy Asian students probably dropped precipitously year-over-year. Given the landscape of the TJ prep industry under the old process, I'm not too concerned for their welfare. |
It's the other way. Low income Asian count went from 37 to 3 . The entire process was or is race blind. How the heck did they know who was Asian in low-income? |
DP... precisely which students are you referring to with that exceedingly racist stereotype? Are you suggesting that there is a cohort of students at TJ who share traits of cheating, cutthroat behavior, body odor, smelly food, and funny sounding names? It's odd of you to choose to introduce that dynamic to this conversation. |
The county's data showed that low-income Asians were the largest beneficiary of the changes to selection. |