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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BECAUSE  Asian Americans are collateral damage for the benefit of preferred minority group. [/quote]

This victimhood narrative is so tiresome.

You deserve credit for recognizing that there was a market inefficiency in elite college admissions - standardized test scores. They were overvalued by many of the most prestigious institutions both in your countries of origin and here in the US for many years, and so you designed your parenting and educational philosophy around taking advantage of that market inefficiency.

Institutions like Caltech - through years of research - have determined that standardized test scores are NOT a predictive measure of future success or competency and can indeed be an occluding factor in a selection process, and so they've moved away from using that metric. This advancement in research has removed an advantage for you and your community as a consequence.

That does NOT equate to collateral damage. And it does NOT equate to discrimination of any kind.  We're just not using the metric that you're best at anymore because it selects the wrong kids.[/quote]

Of all the funniest things posted on this forum, the suggestion that FCPS - an overwhelmed, declining school system - can bring the same analytical rigor to bear as an institution like CalTech when trying to evaluate applications without the benefit of objective metrics - may be the most hilarious.

You just want to discriminate against Asians and find a way to justify it.  The joke will be on you, however, as those very kids whose families you resent so much for their commitment to education are the ones that led to TJ's top ranking.  Without them, TJ's reputation will decline and it will simply be a better alternative for kids attending the county's worst high schools and an increasingly unattractive option for those attending the county's handful of remaining high-quality high schools.  [/quote]

It's not clear it will decline.  They will still have the classes you can't get elsewhere, and a large cohort of students to take those classes.  The performance at top contests will not decline that much.  I know the class of 2025 got many top MathCounts students from Loudoun, but then class of 2026 did not.[/quote]

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