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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn't believe our child would be in the top 10% or even the top 25% at TJ, so we declined the offer last year. Child was part of middle school math club, but there was significant gap between their math proficiency and that of students on the school's MathCounts team. We knew this gap would only be wider if our child were to attend TJ.[/quote]

+1 here. The peer group at TJ is so high-achieving that if your kid isn't far-and-away the highest-achieving at his MS, DC will be mediocre at TJ.  In that case, you/DC have to decide whether the opportunities at TJ outweigh the suppressed college choices.[/quote]

People keep saying this but I'd like to see some data.  I went to a magnet school in nyc and people said there was a penalty in college admissions because harvard wouldn't accept more than ~10 kids per year from my high school.  After recent data released by harvard during the affirmative action litigation, it turns out that the penalty for attending my high school approximated the asian racial penalty.  Staying at your base school doesn't make you any less asian, going to tjhsst doesn't make you any more asian.  We don't know what the future looks like but i'd like to see data before believing that uva is flat out lying about discriminating against tj students.[/quote]

Seems you already have the data.[/quote]

I don't have a monopoly on data.  I may be missing something but it seems to me that UVA admissions has been getting way more selective and TJ has been getting way more asian and those two factors combine to make it APPEAR as if it is harder to get into UVA from TJ[/quote]
You explained Harvard.[/quote]

I think up until last year, UVA also had affirmative action.

The combination of UVA going from 40% acceptance rate to 15% over the last 15 yearsd and TJ going from 50% asian to 75% asian in the same 15 years made TJ's admissions to all selective schools plummet.  First because it plummeted for everyone but especially for asians.  Look at who got into top schools from TJ last year.  TJ is 75% asian.  The kids getting into ivy+ are nowhere near 75% asian.  This has been true for a while.

If we see UVA acceptances spike to what you would expect then UVA is pretty much telling the truth.  They don't discrimmiante against TJ but they did practice affirmative action and this had a (unintended?) discriminatory effect on asians and all the asians at tj made it look like they were targetting tj but they were actually targetting asians (unintentionally?).[/quote]

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