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DP... look at the stats. [b]As a group, they score lower.[/b]  Statistically, it is not possible to admit more URM without lowering the threshold or changing the standards to look at a "holistic" approach, whatever that means.

I am going to bring up the Ivy league/Jew comparison again.  When Jews became over represented at Harvard, what did Harvard admissions do?  They changed the standards and made it "holistic" to exclude more Jews and increase white admissions.  Why did they do that.. well, because statistically, white students couldn't score as high as the Jewish students.  This is still happening, btw, to Asian American students.  Yes, I understand why universities do it now.. they want "diversity", which is fine.  But, this type of admission standards is not based purely on merit, which a public ES magnet program should be.

Why do you think they changed the entrance exam from 2 hour to 30min, and why do they no longer show the median scores of the accepted students, split out by the three categories?  I can't think of a single valid reason why they would stop showing these scores.[/quote]

The average height of women in the US is 5 feet 4 inches tall. Therefore, all women in the US are 5 feet 4 inches tall.

That's the reasoning you're using. As a group, black and Latino kids score lower; therefore all black and Latino kids are lower-scoring kids.

Again, if you have evidence that MCPS is using race as a factor in admissions, you shouldn't waste your time posting on DCUM -- you should go straight to DOJ.[/quote]

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