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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This past Friday my husband and I attended a party and one conversation between the ladies led to the AAP.  One of them was very adamant that Black and Hispanic children are admitted more easily into the program once they are on the pool.  This because, she explained, there were so few of these children on the AAP vs. White and Asian kids.  So, my question is if there is some type of affirmative action policy active in the AAP section process or was she misinformed?[/quote]

Hogwash.   If it were true there would be more black and Hispanic children in the program.   SES is the biggest determining factor regardless of race.  Just look at the Class of 2016 TJ acceptance rates of black and Hispanic children compared to white and Aisian children.  If there were some sort of favoring going on, I wouldn't think the acceptance rates wouldn't be as low as they are.

White  126 out of 1,239  or [b]10.17%[/b]
Asian  308 out of  1,469 or [b]20.96%[/b]
African American 7 out of 235  or [b]2.98%[/b]
Hispanic   13 out of 285  or [b]4.56%[/b]

If there were any kind of Affirmative Action going on there would more than 7 AA and 13 Hispanic students accepted.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/tj/tjadmissions0412.pdf

People who look at a black or Hispanic child and think that the reason a black or Hispanic child is in an academic advanced program is because they have a lower bar to attend, need to examine their own prejudices.[/quote]

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