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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, so compare DC's test-in magnet programs to Boston's instead. Boston has just three "Exam High Schools" in MA-speak, all of which are roughly 1/3 Asian in a City whose population is only around 6% Asian.  The difference is that Boston's magnets don't use an admissions interview and do use a tough admissions test.  SWW goes with an interview and an easy test.  Arguably, the Walls interview is use to identify and offer preferential treatment in admissions to "underserved minorities" (read applicants who are low SES and brown or black but not Asian).  I won't be surprised if Walls is sued by a white or Asian family, or a group of them, over discriminatory admissions in the coming years, like Boston Latin was 20 years ago, when the program still had an admissions interview.  The program no longer does.

One big reason some BASIS MS families stay for HS is because their no-excuses curriculum weeds out weaker students, and dissuades their families from enrolling, in a way that no DCPS MS or HS does.

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You have literally no evidence for this -- and your theory does not explain why there are Asian students at Wilson, and none at Banneker which also weeds out weaker students. BTW SWW counsels students out every year. [/quote]

Anybody with half a brain can figure this one out.

There are hardly any Asian students at Banneker ("none" is too strong), as well as whites, for the simple reason that Banneker is the high school version of an historically black college.

There are at least 100 Asian students at Wilson, mainly because there are more Asian-Americans living in Upper NW than in any other major DC neighborhood.

There are four dozen Asian students at BASIS for the same reasons that there are other races there, namely that there is no by-right MS or HS appealing to a good-sized UMC cohort EotP.
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Top post totally hit it on the nail.  Very succinct summary of where Asians go.  It’s also true about the no excuses curriculum at Basis esp STEM in weeding out the students.  In Asians cultures the kids are taught this no excuse mentality from an early age.  That is why they are so driven and hard working.  There is no excuse for failure and it’s not an option.  They do well in this type of environment because they grew up in such an environment.

Those that disagree can delude themselves but getting into SWW is not as hard for minorities. The admission process is not transparent.  DC wants kids to sit who can’t even score grade level on the PARCC.

Why? If they can’t even do that, what makes you think they will do well on a SWW exam? Why doesn’t SWW post all their test scores by a random number assigned to each student online and the cut off number?  What criteria determines how well a student does on an interview?  The transparency for selection at SWW is terrible. SWW is not a test in magnet, far from it because of all the above.  It will never be like the schools in NY.[/quote]

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