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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The email also notes that they have done away with the "historically underrepresented schools" factor:

Please note that we have updated the Regulation to reflect that we have discontinued use of the “historically underrepresented school” experience factor, as unnecessary to promote middle school diversity.  http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CEHHLJ490428/$file/R3355.pdf [/quote]

What exactly does this mean? [/quote]

One of the "experience factors" taken into consideration as part of the new admissions process was whether a student attended a historically underrepresented school, i.e. a school which generally sends very few students to TJ (they had provided a list of which schools those were.) Effective this round of admissions, that factor is no longer being considered. the email seems to suggest that the purpose of the factor was to promote school diversity and that it is unnecessary (presumably because every school is allocated seats for 1.5% of its 8th graders - although that was always part of the process, and thus the HUS factor was thus always redundant by that reasoning).[/quote]

Do we know how many kids from each middle school applied?  It would seem that if every school gets 1.5% of applicants a slot then the top 6-8 from every middle school get in?  Is that right?[/quote]

Correct, if there are 6-8 that meet the requirements, which there probably are. [/quote]

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