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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] When a huge portion of the admitted class comes from an expensive test prep company then you know something is wrong. [/quote] 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] [img]https://www.enworld.org/media/princess-bride-you-keep-using-that-word-gif.92915/full[/img] 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. [/quote] 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. [/quote] https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcag.org%2FClassOf2024TotalsbySchool.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK There were 49 schools that had more than 10 applicants (the threshhold for showing up in the statistics) If the acceptance rate was 20% and your school had a proportional number of acceptances then you would need 55 applicants from your school to have more than 10 acceptances. 12 schools had more than 55 applicants. All of those schools except Glasgow and Twain ended up sending kids to TJ. These are schools from east fairfax and they have a high rate of FARM students Glasgow had 72 applicants with 10 or fewer of them qualifying as a semifinalist for consideration for admissions to TJ with 10 or fewer of them being ultimately admitted Twain 83 Applicants with 21 qualifying as a semifinalist for consideration for admission to TJ but fewer than 10 of them were admitted. 344 of the admits in 2024 came from 12 school that sent 11 or more students to TJ. So 70% of the admits came from these 12 schools. 1239 of the 2539 applicants came from these schools. So 27% of the applicants from these schools were accepted. 142 came from all other middle schools. There were a total of 1300 applicants from all other middle schools combined. So 11% of the applicants from other schools were accepted. The 12 schools with 11 or more students going to TJ are: School applied semifinalist admitted FARM students Carson Middle School 286 143 82 12% Longfellow Middle School 151 96 57 9% Cooper Middle School 89 57 33 2% Rocky Run Middle School 149 76 32 15% Willard Intermediate School 78 33 23 9% Frost Middle School 90 42 20 13% Kilmer Middle School 64 28 19 17% Nysmith 41 20 18 Private Lake Braddock Middle School 97 36 17 20% Stone Hill 80 39 16 12% Jackson Middle School 72 26 15 50% Lunsford 42 27 12 17% FCPS is 27% FARM LCPS is 17% FARM https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcag.org%2FClassOf2024TotalsbySchool.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK These numbers may still tilt too much towards wealthy schools but it's not 90% from a handful of schools. There appears to be 29 middle schools in FCPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fairfax_County_Public_Schools_middle_schools And it is clear that without the express preference for FARM students that the overwhelming majority of kids from high FARM schools were not FARM kids. We could absolutely have achieved a high farm rate without eliminating the test or using the 1.5% quota. The 1.5% quota was necessary only to achieve the racial goals.[/quote]
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