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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But we aren't talking about normal kids - the school only grabs the truly truly gifted.  And that the demographics seems to favor Asians heavily.  Perhaps they are gifted and their families work very hard to have them achieve.  I know many asian families that pay for tutors and send their children to special schools on Saturdays to get them ahead.

If the other groups (white, hispanic, black, etc) can't compete they will be and should be left behind.  [b]Don't dumb the school down for quotas[/b].  That is why the U.S. is starting to fail.[/quote]

I agree with you, but the fact is that there has been a steady deterioration in the math level of the students who are admitted, precipitating a crisis this year since almost 30% of the frosh class is considered inadequately prepared for the rigors of the program and has been placed in remedial math instruction. Before you jump to conclusions and conclude that it's the blacks and latino kids who aren't doing well, it's mathematically impossible for that to be the case--blacks and latinos make up less than 5% of the class. Furthermore, as the letter points out, most of those kids come from private schools, so they're in all likelihood not disadvantaged.
The fact is that the increasingly subjective application process has let in a lot of underqualified white and asian kids whose families have figured out how to game the system by writing the "perfect essay", saying the right things on the student information sheet, securing excellent recommendations, and packing their kids' after-school hours with science-related stuff, whether the kid is good at it or not and likes it or not.
In addition, several high-performing latino kids with excellent test scores were rejected at the expense of kids with lower scores. So, in some ways, the letter is right--there may be a disparate impact on URM because a highly subjective admissions process that was designed to get more of them in is actually letting in more lower-performing whites and asians.
What a mess.[/quote]

I'm sure there were plenty of white and Asian kids with excellent test scores who were also rejected. [/quote]

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