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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of kids accepted under the old system did not test prep. It is pretty disgusting to read the documents and see how FCPS tweaked the process to give game changing bonus points so they could get the racial balancing outcome they wanted [/quote]

Just brutally false. One prep company claimed nearly 30% of the class of 2024 on their own, and 100% of those belonged to ONE racial demographic.

Are you suggesting that only Indians do test prep? Seems awfully racist to me.[/quote]

I'm sure you'll just ignore this, like you have the other 100 times it has been brought up.  Most of the kids from that prep company are LCPS students occupying the LCPS designated TJ seats.  It's obvious that such is the case, because over half of those kids also were accepted to AET or AOS.  They also didn't indicate whether all of the kids were admitted first round, or whether many were admitted into LCPS seats after the originally accepted kids chose to attend AET or AOS instead.

Grossly changing FCPS admissions process in response to South Asians in LCPS all trying to leapfrog each other for the LCPS seats makes no sense, especially since even in the new system, the LCPS seats are almost entirely filled with wealthy South Asians.  [/quote]

Then please tell us a better way to both overcome the Curie problem and overcome the "During the summer of 2020, statistics revealed that the number of Black students admitted to TJ’s incoming class was too small to be reported." problem for the entire region.  [/quote]
Sure.  Get rid of the application fee.  Get rid of Quant -Q. Use something with plentiful free prep resources, like PSAT 8/9.  Keep teacher recommendations.  Keep essays that are meaningful. Return to a non-Trivial problem solving essay.  Give credit for STEM achievements and math coursework taken, but also give credit for diverse perspectives or hardships overcome by including that in an essay prompt.

I’m okay with an allocation of seats per zoned middle school, but not attending middle school, which penalizes AAP kids.  Such a system would still increase URMs, but in a much more meritocratic way.  [/quote]

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