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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But— a lot of this law is in the context of college admissions, where there a set number of seats. AAP is different, because every qualified kid is supposed to be admitted. Unlike Harvard, a URM getting admission does not take a seat from some other, possibly more qualified kid. Your UMC white kid will still be admitted, whether or not the YS model is used to identify additional URM kids.[/quote]

Umm.. no.

25% is a statistical measure.

It's not like they are saying they want 5 kids of X race per class of 20 . They want 25% of  AAP according to OP. That means, possibly, admitting less kids per class of Y race. 
Or, it could mean admitting a LOT fo X race and continuing to admit "your UMC white kid." Then class sizes could be bigger.

They already do this anyway. It's nothing new. It's apparent if you are in a center and have friends at other schools who share scores. Otherwise they wouldn't require name, race, and school on the cover page that gets submitted. It would be a blind admission based on a number. And it's not.

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I think they're going to add numbers from low SES/race x from low income schools. This won't affect center eligible kids since local level does not require them to be eligible. This will get around the whole testing mess. If you increase AAP participation by increasing race x/low SES numbers they'll meet the percentages.[/quote]

They can dumb down AAP and they’ll just have more weak AAP centers like Glasgow, which places very few kids into TJ.  This is about Democratic politicians kowtowing to the NAACP and other black and Hispanic advocacy groups.  It has nothing to do with educational quality. [/quote]

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