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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is student Race needed on the application form, if not for manipulating offers?

Student Race information is already being collected on the Student registration form for federal federal funds/reporting, etc. purposes, after students decide to enroll at TJ.

Why collect it for all applicants?  [/quote]

Probably for reporting. Possibly for VDOE to monitor the admissions process.

Applicants can also decline to share IIRC.

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Application does not provide option to not share. Race is a required field to submit the application.

Admissions are race-conscious. Every FCPS news release on TJ admissions leads with the racial percentage breakdown, even before mentioning middle school offer counts.  
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Even if the data is collected for reporting, admissions evaluators do not know the race, ethnicity, or gender of any applicant.

Stop pushing wacko conspiracy theories. [/quote]
Truth hurts!  Without considering race, there’s no other basis for selecting applicants. With race-conscious admissions, a consistent racial quota is achieved, as highlighted in FCPS news releases for last four years since admission change. There’s no hiding the manipulation of racial representation.[/quote]
That's not what happened.

They changed the admissions policy to reduce merit and increase randomness.  
This leads to an incoming class that looks a lot like a cross section of the applicant pool.

A merit based system will disproportionately select asians.
A more random system will select students somewhat proportionally. This is why we see a surge in white students, fairfax is predominantly white.[/quote] Is 36% predominantly?  It is not mainly or for the most part any specific race. [/quote]

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