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Stop distorting the numbers to try to make your point.  A group that makes up 20% of the FCPS population has occupied 73% of the seats and now only has 54%.  So, the overrepresentation is not as drastic as you're making it out to be, and the reduction in Asian enrollment is twice as large as you're claiming.

The overrepresentation of Asian students of course has [i]nothing whatsoeve[/i]r to do with the fact that Asian cultures greatly value education and hard work. :roll: [/quote]

[b]Yes, stop distorting the numbers![/b] Fairfax county is 17% Asian according to the latest data. Asian students typically have been awarded 70% of the TJ admissions in recent years. It's gone down to 60%, but on the whole Asians are doing far better than anyone else with this metric so I think discrimination in race-blind admissions is a distraction. Seems like the real issue is purchasing admissions.[/quote]

You first.  Why are you using Fairfax county numbers rather than FCPS numbers for Asian enrollment?  FCPS specifically states that it has 19.5% Asian enrollment in their school system, so that's the most reasonable number to use.    The Washington Post specifically states that Asians have 54% of the seats for the class of 2025.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jefferson-high-diversity-admissions/2021/06/23/26bb7960-d44b-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html
Stop pulling numbers out of your a**.[/quote]

So what you're saying is Asians have more seats than any group by a huge margin and yet it's not enough? You feel the system needs to be rigged to give them more?[/quote]
That’s basically what is being said and they are appalled at the fact that a percentage of the spots they have lost are going to Blacks and Latinos.[/quote]

It is actually quite the opposite. People were appalled by large percentage of spots going to Asians and decided to rig the process and change a race blind process by removing an admissions test to penalize Asians for success. If the issues was the test itself, it could easily have been changed to make it non-standardized but then that would not have worked for equity so the test was removed and the process rigged to make it subjective so that the right social engineering mix could be created and politicians could reward their constituents with spots at TJ. [/quote]

The test was removed in part to get rid of the application fee. So, I suppose in a sense that has an impact on equity but the rest of your comment is pretty nonsensical.[/quote]

Application fee could have been easily removed. Rest of my comm my describes a nonsensical situation but is very much true. [/quote]

The exam was the costly part of the application. You couldn't remove the fee without removing the exam.[/quote]

It's pretty clear they wanted to diminish the impact of prep by giving equally gifted but unprepped students at the less affluent schools a chance to shine.[/quote]

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