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Yes.  It sounds very stupid to discriminate against persons based on their race just because one race is underrepresented and the other is [b]over represented based on merit[/b].[/quote]

You can keep parroting this talking point until you're blue in the face, but it won't make it true.

Asians are not over-represented at TJ because of "merit". They are over-represented at TJ because:

a) Their community values academic prestige at a MUCH higher rate than all other communities in NoVa - which explains their over-representation among applicants; and

b) The previous admissions process strongly favored families who are willing and able to gear a student's entire childhood around optimizing that process - which explains their over-representation even when controlling for application numbers.

Choosing to sell out to getting into TJ from an early age is not merit.

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DP.  [b]What exactly do you think merit is?[/b]  Working hard from a young age and being more advanced than your same-age peers sounds a lot like merit to me.

Also, your arguments could be used for any varsity sports team.  
a) Some communities value sports excellent at a much higher rate than others.
b) Making the varsity team for many sports favors families who are willing and able to gear a student's entire childhood around that sport.

If you're going to push racial balance in academics, then you should also do so in sports.  If you're going to penalize kids for working hard from a young age and being more advanced, then you should also penalize kids in sports who start doing travel leagues or have private coaching.  [/quote]

Merit can be pretty easily defined with respect to TJ as "ability to contribute positively to a strong, well-rounded, collaborative academic environment focused on STEM". There are hundreds of students in every TJ class who, while their report cards and resumes may read well, do essentially nothing to contribute positively to the TJ environment. [b]People on this site get angry whenever I mention that a huge number of them are indistinguishable on paper - but that's by design[/b]. They are striving to mirror what they believe to be the portrait of the ideal elite college applicant, which usually amounts to imitating the LinkedIn profile of some kid in an earlier year who got into their dream school. And they do this [i]because it worked to get them into TJ[/i] - because the previous admissions process told them "this is what we're looking for".

The sports metaphor is laughable on its face and whenever I hear it brought up in real life, it's almost always a leading indicator of deep (and frequently unwitting) anti-Black resentment.

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It’s easier to discriminate against Asians when you see them as faceless, interchangeable robots with no life and personality.

You want an example of Anti-Asian racism? This right here. You’re showing your bias, and people are right to be angry about what you just said.[/quote]

It is also incorrect to assert that the Asian students at TJ are representative of Asian students as a whole. They are not. This is not a question of race, but rather of a narrow sliver of a broader population. [/quote]

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