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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just how many locations does Curie have and is their placement test that difficult? The number of times Curie receives a mention, almost sounds like it has more enrollment than the public school itself.  We are not even from Northern Virginia, but curious to know.  [/quote]

There's only a handful of locations but their students are overwhelmingly indian and the most noticable increase in TJ students has been indian students as a result of the relatively recently influx of indian families to this area.  If you watched the hearings surrounding the change it was distinctly anti-asian but it was spexcifically focused on these 'ravanous' 'opportunity hoard' indians.  Some people were just getting used to the notion that east asians were outperforming them.  Years ago, everyone attributed the performance gap to cheating by ewast asians.  Cheating asians became a racist trope.  Now the brown asians are outperforming them too and it really bothers some people that yet another group is outperforming and now it's the brown asians that are outpermforming everyone because they cheat.  As an east asian, I think that indians are kicking our ass because they work harder than most of us are willing to make our kids work.

People are literally saying these indian families are buying the tests when what they are doing is buying test prep and they have been dominating academically in much the same way asians dominated 10-15 years ago.  They are fabricating stories about cheating to make themselves feel better about stealing opportunity from these kids that have earned them.

For about 3 years one of the tests was called quant q.  It was supposed to be unpreppable but that unpreppability was entirely dependant on 3000 students not discussing the test after they took it.  There was a sense that if noone could study for the exam then the exam would lead to proportionate results and it did not.  The very first year it was administered, asians dropped to 65% of the entering class from 75% the year before.  So there was an effect but they didn't come close to getting the racial balance they were looking for.  The black hispanic admits went from 3% of the entering class to 7%.

Curie is probably a good program but if your kid puts that much time and effort into ANY program i suspect the result would be similar.

The next year it went right back up to the mid 70s.  It turns out that the test was very preppable as soon as you found out what sort of questions were being asked.
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