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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“This is actually tricky -
Admission to Stuyvesant is determined by a single test avail to all middle school students in NYC.There are no soft criteria-no interviews,no legacy favoritism, no strings to be pulled. It’s all abt test score which determines if you can handle academics.”

- Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC[/quote]

Maggie Haberman, NYT, quoted Ruhle to say:
“White students generally have more means with which to prep for this test, some doing it for years. Yes it’s a test, no it is not an equal playing field.”

I’m not sure why Maggie used white when Asians are the ones dominating this system. [/quote]

The simple truth is that Asian relative overperformance demonstrates that “discrimination” is not a significant driver of outcomes on this sort of test.  It has always been a very inconvenient truth for those who insist all groups are [b]equally talented[/b], generally ignored because of that inconvenience, and because Asians didn’t seem to want to make a big issue out of it.  Now there is a critical mass of Asians who are going to resist getting shafted in the name of diversity.  Will be interesting to see how that all works out.[/quote]

You think it's a level playing field? So it's just pure talent that is being compared by these tests? 
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um yeah.  There are poor and middle class asian kids who are getting in.  That throws out race and SES as an excuse[/quote]

+1.  It’s 45% FARMS.  So admission is not skewed towards money.  Drop the AA race card.  It boils down to family support and the value they place on education.  In the Asian culture, education is everything, especially for immigrants.[/quote]

Democrats will only listen to you once you dare vote for someone else.[/quote]

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