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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope they add an Asian person to the selection committee for TPMS. Last year, despite such a huge number and percentage of Asian-Americans being identified as "highly abled" and being considered not a single member of the committee was Asian out of 15.

They keep talking about the gap by race and fair representation of minorities but... really?
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Why does it matter? The students' names and race, supposedly, are not disclosed during admissions. It's not that an Asian selection committee member could lobby for Asian geniuses. :lol: [/quote]

+1 The process is name and race/ethnicity blind. It has to be, by law. Extracurriculars are not included, so it isn't as if someone on the committee could recommend the kid who lists Korean Language Saturday School. There's no essay anymore, so no way to signal race/ethnicity there by talking about how your parents lived on a boat for five years and it helped you understand how lucky you are to be born in Montgomery County.

None of that is known. I do think unconscious bias plays a role in many selection processes, which is why I support things like blind orchestra auditions, and stripping race/name from magnet admissions. But the idea that simply having an Asian person on the committee would change the process in this case doesn't hold water. The committee knows: home school + scores, and then how those scores compare to other kids in the receiving school. [/quote]

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