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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“This is actually tricky -
Admission to Stuyvesant is determined by a single test avail to all middle school students in NYC.There are no soft criteria-no interviews,no legacy favoritism, no strings to be pulled. It’s all abt test score which determines if you can handle academics.”

- Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC[/quote]

Maggie Haberman, NYT, quoted Ruhle to say:
“White students generally have more means with which to prep for this test, some doing it for years. Yes it’s a test, no it is not an equal playing field.”

I’m not sure why Maggie used white when Asians are the ones dominating this system. [/quote]

Maybe because the # of white students have a higher % of offers for all of the magnet schools? 26.5% offers but 18.1% of test takers.

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As a Science alum from the 1980s, the figures in this table appall me.  There were a lot more than 25 black kids in my class and no where near the number of Asians indicated.

FWIW, I've known plenty of people who were very smart, worked hard and did well in school but were relatively lousy test takers.  It's a skill in and of itself.

These numbers really scream it's time to reevaluate how we do this.  [/quote]

Hi, fellow alum! I’m a Black female and went to Bronx Science in the late 90s. Although I have no idea what the percentage breakdown was, we also had a heck of a lot more Black and Latino students. I wonder if the test or the scoring threshold has changed since then. Back then we only had 3 specialized high schools and Sty was always the hardest to get into and had the least diversity (but it was still more diverse than these numbers). I also remember there was a bridge summer program for minority who just missed the scoring cutoff; they could take a summer program and if they passed, they got into the school. I wonder if this program has also been eliminated, which could be factoring into the lower numbers. [/quote]

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