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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your child Asian? [/quote]

That wouldn't matter, nor could it be used as a factor for selection since discrimination is illegal in this country.[/quote]
Which country you living in?  even the college admission is biased!  I can guarantee you that the kids got in with below 130 NNAT and CogAT are not Asians[/quote]

For those who aren't aware, one factor in AAP selection is diversity considerations.  This isn't stated anywhere in the FCPS AAP literature, but it is obvious to most parents when you see who gets into AAP.  There are always a number of "surprises" and this makes a lot of parents very upset because it becomes obvious that there are different admission standards and people start to think it's unfair.  Myself personally, I don't actually have a problem with there being diversity considerations and there being different standards.  I really, however, dislike the complete lack of transparency.  If you're going to do the foregoing, be transparent about it and live with the consequences (i.e., getting sued a la TJ).

Related to the foregoing, it's stuff like this that makes Asians feel like they have to test prep for everything.  Asian families intuitively sense that they are being compared to other Asians in any admission process and so their test scores need to be higher than others to even be eligible.  It's a horrible, vicious cycle.[/quote]
Completely agree with you!  Many Asian’s nature is to be good citizens and avoid conflict and lawsuits, especially true for the 1st and 1.5 generation of Asians.  This makes many system take advantage of them.  As the Asian population more integrated to the society, the 2nd and 3rd generation parents whom experienced the bias first handed will not allow the same bias happen to their children.  Thus more lawsuits are happening, I can only imagine will happen a lot more in the future.  This is type of bias is also racism, even the white population is experiencing the same racism.[/quote]

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