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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What demographics do you think they typically need to fill?  latin/hispanic? [/quote]
You would think so, but they don’t need to fill anything [/quote]

When we toured, there wasn’t much diversity.[/quote]

Not sure what you saw…

We have 2 kids there. We are POC.   US class my daughter is in is about 35% [b]UMR[/b] and my 4th grader’s class is about 40% [b]UMR[/b]. We feel very comfortable there.  Lots of diverse families at the school. Many Asian and South asian families there. Also a decent amount of AA.  Not to many Hispanic families though.

Also about admissions, yeah, super hard at 9th. Many recruits come in there, so only really 20 spots of the 30 are for applicants. Most siblings come in at K and 4th.  Many siblings get rejected.   Best entry year is likely 7th grade as they do not recruit at that grade and there are 20 spots. K is also one to want to try as they start there.

4th, 6th and 9th are super competitive with admit rates around 10%.[/quote]
Do you mean URM, underrepresented minority? Or what does UMR mean?[/quote]

I toured the lower school and it was absolutely NOT 40% URM. It looked about 80% white. I did see a few kids who looked mixed or Persian. Middle Easterns I believe are considered white and Asians are not URM.[/quote]
It probably is 40%.  It’s probably just white URM’s accounting for that 40%.[/quote]
What the heck is a “white URM”??[/quote]

The white URMs are the majority white people I must have seen during my tour. In the halls and classrooms, it looked mostly white kids and then an Asian kid or two and then one black or mixed race kid. The Asians and black students I saw also looked mixed race. I wasn’t doing a count of kids when I toured.[/quote]

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