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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My impression is that 1.5% seats would be set aside. If only 5 of the 6 students accepted the spot, student #7 would get an offer. [/quote]

So a Mt Vernon kid would be offered a spot even if he wasn’t the original top 1.5%.

How would the top 1.5% be even chosen. I bet a lot of those kids are not interested in or it would be challenging to commute.[/quote]

It would be a Whitman kid who had chosen to apply to TJ and had been evaluated under a holistic approach.  The admissions officers would have determined “this is a kid we think would be a really great fit for TJ because X” (which could include demonstrated aptitude for STEM despite economic hardship, etc). If the kid turned down the offer, they’d keep looking, but the kid would have already shown enough interest to apply.  The 1.5% wouldn’t have been plucked out of thin air without their consent.

FCPS wants to create a greater nfrastructure to send the message to URMs that “you belong at TJ,” you should apply to TJ, we will support you at TJ, and you will succeed at TJ.  The entire project is about FCPS being able to hold out URMs and low-income kids at TJ to the world as evidence of how great FCPS is, and then hope students throughout FCPS will be inspired by their example.

In a way, it’s laudable, but it makes FCPS even more TJ-centric, and for years to come TJ will probably end up taking up an even more disproportionate share of FCPS time and attention than it already does.  Those who disagree with this approach would rather see FCPS focus more of its resources on strengthening STEM education across the board, including at the elementary and middle schools with more URMs.  Others will be annoyed by how much attention FCPS pays to TJ and the URMs there compared to their own kids and schools.[/quote]

This is a really good thought.  I hope that you expand on this and get it published somewhere.  [/quote]

Dinesh D’Souza wrote an entire book about this phenomena in the early 1990s and why a top down approach does not work.  [/quote]

It seems to be working at Harvard and Yale.  [/quote]

Geographic minimums makes sense to me for a public school.  We do it in sports - each school gets to send its best to the county championships even if they would be slower than the slowest kid on a different schools team.   Equal access doesn’t result in equal outcome, but they should get to participate.  [/quote]

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