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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS tries desperately to admit more blacks and Hispanics by tweaking the admissions process every few years but all they end up is more unprepared students being admitted. [/quote]

The numbers do not support a claim of desperate efforts, much less meaningful results.

[u]Black[/u]

Class of 2016 - 235 applied, 7 admitted.
Class of 2017 - 199 applied, 5 admitted.
Class of 2018 - 177 applied, 10 admitted.

[u]Hispanic[/u]

Class of 2016 - 285 applied, 13 admitted.
Class of 2017 - 253 applied, 15 admitted.
Class of 2018 - 214 applied, 8(!) admitted.

[quote]Wow, talk about discrimination based on SES! Some kids have to watch siblings instead of going to math camp. That's awful.[/quote]

The admission rates for poor students as a group is stunning.

Class of 2016 - 402 applied, 6 admitted.
Class of 2017 - 314 applied, 5 admitted.
Class of 2018 - 230(!) applied, 4 admitted.

28% of FCPS kids are FARMs kids. 0.8% of the TJ class of 2018 are FARMs kids.

As dismal as the admission numbers are, the application number trend is worse. Black and Hispanic applications down 25% in only two years. FARMs applications down a whopping 43% over the same span.

Those numbers are troubling.
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