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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are the parent of an Asian boy - well-rounded with good grades and high MAP scores looking around you to see kids who may have worse scores getting in, this is just the beginning. wait till you get to college admissions. it is beyond brutal. essentially at this point Asian kids - esp boys - are competing among themselves because the bar is so much higher than for others. being held to different standards as a 13 or 14 year old sucks though. [/quote]

Admissions for these public school programs is race blind. They have no clue what the applicants race is just gender.[/quote]

Some kids mentioned it in their essays. It's a work around.[/quote]

Sure. Blair magnet is known for letting in subpar students just because they are black or brown. You sound like you need a therapist. [/quote]

Actually, the enrollment of AA students at the blair manget is less than 5% which is far lower than AA representation in the county. This indicates that AA children are not favored. In fact, the only group whose enrollment exceeds their representation is Asian so guessing this is what the poster means by Brown? [/quote]

I hate it when people make these simplistic arguments. It's much more complicated. What percentage of the top scorers are AA or AAPI? You don't just look at representation in the county. How much of the scores can be explained by systemic bias and how do you account for that? The bias doesn't just hit AA students. It hits many other minorities including Asians. DD came from a country where baseball is not played. One of the questions she got on some MAP test was about baseball diamonds. She had no idea what they were talking about. It was an analogy question I think. Is that actually a fair measure then?[/quote]

Agree, the program is over 60% Asian and Asians make up about 15% of the county. It's obvious the current process favors that community.[/quote]

Or they just score the highest?[/quote]

See above.... or many posts on many threads.  Don't you know that ALL Asians were trained by Dr Li.  His class enrollment is 100,000 in MoCo and 3 Billion through zoom.  
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That’s crazy rumor about Dr Li. Dr Li is actually way too easy for my kids so we go to AOPS instead. So are other kids. His business is declining.[/quote]

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