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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how many posters assume that because their child did not get in, that must be because affirmative action is letting in the masses. Do people not see how racist this is? Your child's spot is more likely to have been claimed by another high-performing white student or a high-performing minority student than some fictional underqualified person that MCPS would have just shooed in to close the achievement gap.

My daughter, who happens to be under-represented minority, got a 99%ile ranking in verbal and got into Eastern. Is she not equally deserving of a spot as anyone else? If your kid doesn't get into Harvard, are you going to blame "the minorities" or "the immigrants" -- or are you going to blame "the legacy admits" or "the rich admits"? Or just realize that, as frustrating as it is, there are way more qualified candidates for these opportunities than there are spots?[/quote]
It is absolutely wrong to assume that an individual URM candidate scored lower than others, but, as a whole, stats don't lie.  Across the board, URM score lower than their Asian American and white counterparts. That is why colleges use "holistic" approaches (look at the history of how this came to be), and why URM  groups don't need to score as high to get into those top colleges.

No one said a candidate of any background who scored a 99% didn't deserve to get into the magnet program.  People are saying that other students who may have scored just as high as your DC didn't get in. The question is - why?  Why did one candidate who scored 99% get in and the other one not get in?  Yes, obviously,  there is not enough room for everyone but the question remains - how are they determining who gets in?

No dog in this fight. My former HGC DC decided not to apply to MS magnet.[/quote]

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