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The acceptance rate for Asian applicants is still higher than average.

No discrimination, as declared by the courts. 
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Maybe the Asian applicants had significantly higher merit than average, and in a more comprehensive admissions process, would have earned 90%+ of the seats.  
Asians are like 6% of the US population, but they're earning 90% of the highest middle and high school level STEM accolades.  
Mathcounts top 56 - https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/2024%20Final%20Standings%20Document_0.pdf
USAMO winners - https://www.scribd.com/document/733275791/2024-USAMO-Awardees-docx-1
USAJMO winners - https://www.scribd.com/document/735536387/2024-USAJMO-Awardees-docx
USA Physics Olympiad winners - https://www.aapt.org/physicsteam/2024/upload/2024-Medal-Listing.pdf

The same is true for chem and computing olympiads.  The top kids are predominantly Asian.

Interestingly, MAA has now scrubbed the USAMO and USAJMO winner list from their site, just like they scrubbed all of the AMC 8 and 10/12 awards.  They, too, don't like the optics of seeing so many Asian kids on the lists.[/quote]

To be fair, the kids named Lee could be white.  It's not like the General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States was Korean.[/quote]
That is some seriously wishful thinking.  I have seen some of the “Lee” kids on these lists.  They’re definitely Asian. [/quote]

It's supposed to be funny and lighten the mood to have everyone imagine General Robert E. Lee was really Korean under that beard.
It's funny there weren't any asian slave owners to speak of.
And yet, they're asked to sacrifice their dreams to pay for the white guilt of the descendants of the actual slave owners.[/quote]

It's just happenstance that this attempt to help black people ends up [b]helping white people even more [/b]and hurts only asian people.
This was not at all by design.  I mean aside from the study that FCPS commissioned that told them these exact results, how could they possibly have known![/quote]

The students who benefited the most were Asian from low-income families.

On average, classes have had ~27 more white students and ~60 more URMs, which was a huge % increase.

[img]https://i.ibb.co/h7XDP0j/demochanges.png[/img][/quote]

The students who "benefited" most were kids that would never have gotten in under a merit based selection criteria.
We didn't eliminate merit to increase economic diversity.
We know how to select for poverty without abandoning merit.
The problem is that selecting for poverty would select for poor asian kids at the expense of middle class white kids[/quote]

They do give kids from low-income families a boost in the process.

And there are MORE Asian students at TJ since the admissions change than almost any other year in the school’s history.

[img]https://i.ibb.co/qDTTRYT/tj-demo.png[/img]
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