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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freshman acceptance:
7 black
33 Latino
587 Asian
194 white

NYCPS district overall is 67% black/Latino, 15% white, 15% Asian. Stuyvesant High School is comparable in selectivity to TJ, but I suppose a bit more prestigious, with more national prominence. This is a huge story.

What is going on here? How are Asians so wildly overrepresented and black and Latin kids so underprepared in a $24 billion annually system?[/quote]

Only two possibilities really: black children don't want to go so they don't apply or black children don't get in because can't meet the admissions standards....probably a combination of the two.  [/quote]

it's mainly #2 stats bear it out can we get to 17 pages again lol  probably time to lock the thread[/quote]

I think it's mainly that top African American and Latinx students are getting scooped up by private schools to help their diversity. This is how privates have @ 10-15% URM.

I hate this test prep culture but if someone wants their kid to study for one test every evening and weekend from the age of 10 on, so be it. There are lots of other good HSs in NYC. This is not some.zero sum game.

I'm mixed race and have mixed race kids in NYC. I suspect that with a little test prep they could get into a SHS (e.g., my DC1 just took the SCAT and qualified for CTY with zero test prep -- I myself didn't even know the test format until we got his score). But I'm not sure I would want him to go to Stuy. I don't want him to be the token anything or a victim of racist bullying (e.g., what just happened at ElRo HS in Manhattan). Brooklyn Tech (which requires the same test) is much more diverse and therefore more appealing to us. Which also explains why privates are so successful in getting AA and Latinix students from publics.[/quote]

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