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I wouldnt be surprised at all to see higher rates of foreign and private students making the cut. The way people are pushing to reduce standards for AAP and TJ to increase enrollment of less qualified students, other jurisdictions and privates will absolutely surpass FCPS elementary kids in math and science[/quote]

Meh.  The best solution, then, is to [b]increase the cutoff levels [/b]a little for the TJ tests, and [b]lottery off the TJ slots [u]on a racially representative basis to anyone who makes the semifinalist cut[/u][/b].  Everyone would be qualified, there would be more diversity, and no one would be overly advantaged by prep classes.  [/quote]

how would this address the fact that not enough kids in the under represented groups are making the cut off? [/quote]

Have they released a list of semifinalists by race?  A few PPs have provided anecdata about how their AA or Hispanic kids made semifinalist with very high scores, but then were not picked for admission.  So, it's possible that there are AA and Hispanic kids who are making the cut, but look less good holistically, since they aren't doing prep camps.   For the most recent round of admissions, 160 AA students applied, but only 6 were given spots at TJ.  I highly doubt that 154/160 AA kids didn't make the semifinalist cutoffs.

Also, it's possible that qualified minorities aren't applying at all, under the assumption that they have no chance of being picked compared to the prepping-since-preschool crowd.

Either way, if TJ can accept 500 kids and should be 10% AA, based on FCPS demographics, but only 30 AA kids make the cutoff, then all 30 should get in.  They can then backfill the remaining 20 spots with qualified candidates from over-represented races.

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This is really smart. And no, FCPS has never released demographic breakdowns of semifinalists by race. I think once they might have released the SF numbers by middle school, but there were so many TSes on there for schools that aren't the biggies that it wasn't terribly useful.[/quote]

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