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When a huge portion of the admitted class comes from an expensive test prep company then you know something is wrong.
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What 133 admits had in common was that they attend curie
What 355 of the admits had in common was that they were asian
The problem wasn't the preparation of the students that got in, the problem was the skin color of the students that got in.
If the students were less asian and more white/black/hispanic, they would not have changed the merit-based process.

It's pretty intellectually dishonest (bordering on [b]racist[/b]) to call curie a test prep company.
They start from pre-school and continue to high school calculus.  
They aren't doing this to get into TJ, they are doing this to maximize their education.[/quote]

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It wasn’t a “too many Asians” problem. It was a “not enough URMs, ED, EL, SN” problem.

If they just wanted to cut down on the # of Asian students they wouldn’t have expanded the class size. But they added the seats to ADD the less-represented groups.
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I'm not sure about any of that, but it did seem there was a problem since 90% of the admitted students came from a few wealthy schools. The board seems to have remedied that so that all students now have a shot regardless of HHI or access to test prep.[/quote]

Yes. Many of the MSs weren’t represented at all. That is the biggest group to benefit from the added seats. 
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The biggest group to benefit were the ones who couldn't get in under a merit based system.[/quote]

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