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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would disagree that CM is diverse, despite what others think.  White population is disproportionately high (suspiciously so, some would say) - unless your comparison is the Ward 3 schools.  Anyway, proves my point that DCUMers continue to look down on majority AA schools that are tier 1 - or climbing (like IT) yet consider schools without any real record to be highly regarded. Is this because of their demographics, one has to wonder? Personally, I want ALL of the schools to be successful because different kids need different things.  I do not believe that just because, for example, YY is considered a HRCS that it is the right place for all kids.  And, I think YY has a great program but it would not be the right place for my kids.[/quote]

That is some top notch trolling right there.  I love the phrases that imply problems but have no meaning- "suspiciously so" "some would say" "one has to wonder".

Creative Minds, as of the last school year (2013-14) was 5.8% Asian, 33.6% African-American (non-Hispanic), 15.3% Hispanic/Latino, 43.1% White (non-Hispanic), 2.2% Native American/Alaska Native.

What, exactly, are your "suspicions"?  Who exactly would say?  Who exactly would wonder, and about what?

Different schools have different applicant pools, for a lot of reasons (location, existing student/parent community, parent preferences, etc).  That will tend to skew your applicant pool in certain directions.  Much of this is out of control of the school.  Some of it is under the control of the school- do they actively reach out to every community, do they have a diverse staff and faculty, etc?  but this idea that the schools "cherry pick" students from the lottery has been debunked many times by now, at least in DC.  So what are you saying?[/quote]

Not PP, but didn't CM not have public lotteries until this year?  If you don't hold public lotteries as mandated by PCSB, how has it been "debunked" that CM wasn't cherry picking?[/quote]

I notice no response to this, so glad we can at least agree that this has not been debunked.  I'm not the person posting about CMs diversity, just wanted to make sure this point didn't get lost because to this day there's never been a good explanation of why CM did their lotteries in secret and were in past years not at all forthcoming about their waitlist (no published waitlists either).  Now they're in the common lottery so it'll be interesting to see if anything about the profiles of their incoming students changes.[/quote]

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