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[quote=Anonymous]At OP. Whatever AAP school your child is filter to will only have a selected number of slots per school that feeds in.

Your child is going to be evaluated against his/her peers at his school. As a previous commenter mention, if you're going to a school that is overall academically weaker than another school, your child has a better chance of getting selected to attend AAP.

I know this because I have been through this process numerous times already and have friends whose children attend different schools with worst schools than my children but still got accepted compared to the process we had to go through.

To the other comment about race. While RACE is not specifically put as a variable on the front page with BIG BOLD letter, it is known and been proven that RACE does play a role into the application.

Reason is several years ago, a lot of the AAP schools, for example Louise Archer Elementary School had a high Asian (including India/Pakistan) study body which cause parents of non-asian decent to complain.

Your asian child will be compared to other asian classmates if there is an overwhelming number of eligible applicants for the year you're applying.  The schools want diversification and not a repeat of TJ where 50% of the student body is of Asian origin.

If there are only 8 slots and 10 kids eligible and multiple asian kids, say 3, and the other 7 are a mix between White, Black or Hispanic, they will get selected and the 3 asian kids will battle it out for the last spot.

Many studies have been done from the scandal of Harvard not admitting Asian students to TJ down to the public school system.  Don't complain to me. Go complain to the stories and lawsuits already published.

Those who refute this are obviously non-asian aka white.[/quote]

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