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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From WAPO: “The Class of 2026 at TJ, as the school is known, will include 550 students accepted from a pool of 2,544 applicants. Of the offers sent to eighth-graders, about 60 percent went to Asian students, 21 percent to White students, 8 percent to Hispanic students and 6 percent to Black students.”[/quote]

Those poor Asians. Beaten down by the system such that they actually had a higher percentage of admitted students than they had applicants. Must be racism at work.[/quote]

I am not Asian, but I am not about to deny that it is very obvious that Asians are discriminated against in academic admission decisions.  I hear the reasons why (apparently we do not want Harvard, etc. to be 99% Asian) and maybe they are good reasons (diverse student body), but let's just admit we discriminate against Asians.   [/quote]

The only anti-Asian discrimination is in putting in a per school quota.  However, Asians can get the quota seats in the schools where they intended to get black or Hispanic admits.  Even more so with some families moving to these schools for a year to boost chances.  I wonder if we could get stats on this, followups about what happened with the group that rented an apartment in Herndon.
[b]At our schoo[/b]l, the new admissions system likely caused a higher Asian percentage than would have happened with a test.  Perhaps it's the same as I don't know the race of one student who is declining admission.  The name suggests white, but it could be something else as it is a literary name.[/quote]

Care to share the name of the MS ?[/quote]

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