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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admissions rates by race

Before the changes 2015-16
White 22%
African American 12%
Hispanic 4.5%
Asian 21%

After the changes 2016-2017
White 10%
African American 7%
Hispanic 6%
Asian 16%
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Was that in the report? It definitely confirms my observation that it was harder to get in this year. Are there similar numbers for middle school magnets?[/quote]

This drop in admission rates is solely because the pool of applicants increased so drastically (from 707 kids in 2016 to 1780 in 2017).  If you check the actual numbers of kids who got in, it went up in all cases:

31 white students were accepted in 2016 (27% of all selected students) and 42 in 2017 (24% of all selected students)
27 AA students were accepted in 2016 (23% of all selected students) and 39 in 2017 (22% of all selected students)
4 Hispanic students were accepted in 2016 (3% of all selected students) and 21 in 2017 (12% of all selected students)
7 multiracial students were accepted in 2016 (6% of all selected students) and 10 in 2017 (6% of all selected students)
45 Asian students were accepted in 2016 (39% of all selected students) and 62 in 2017 (36% of all selected students)
13 students on FARMS were accepted in 2016 (11% of all selected students) and 27 in 2017 (16% of all selected students)

Overall these seem like good improvements to the system.  It may be slightly harder to get in, but only because more kids are applying that didn't before.  And remember, this is all data from the pilot schools (Drew and Fox Chapel and feeders).  We don't have this kind of data on the other Centers.
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