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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the proposed change or the change to admissions process?  Is it to simply take top 1.5% of kids from each and every middle school in the county, regardless of race?  please explain. [/quote]
Also, exactly how are they going to determine the top 1.5%?  If TJ admissions is going to use a similar process as previous years, but ensure that at least around 6 kids from each middle school are selected, that would be fine.  I don't know if it was just a rumor, but I had heard earlier that it would be GPA for all kids in at least 3 honors classes and at least Algebra I in 8th grade.  That would be a terrible metric for finding the best students.  [/quote]

I think it's a great idea to try to bring more Hispanic and Black students into TJ.  And AAP.  I really do.

But in this hypothetical TJ admissions system, as applied, is it possible the biggest winners would be less deserving white kids displacing higher scoring Asian kids?  Perhaps there's another more targeted solution.[/quote]

1) How do you define "less deserving"?

2) As it currently stands, white kids don't go to TJ because they don't apply to TJ. See the application numbers over the last dozen years and how they've plummeted. If they all of a sudden start applying again, that doesn't mean that they're inherently less deserving.[/quote]

Lower test scores, grades, and whatever other activities, credentials, recs are reviewed.

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There won't be a way for the folks on this forum to evaluate whether or not that's taken place. They'll speculate about it endlessly, I'm sure, but there will be no way to confirm it.

The only thing that folks have been able to successfully FOIA are grades, exam scores, and applicant status. They're not identified by race or by school or by any other identifier.[/quote]

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