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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]0.6%, <1%, of the class of 2024 came from a low-income family. They wanted to eliminate the inequitable admissions process. And look who benefited the most - Asian students from low-income families. [/quote] They wanted to balance race. This is clear from the email and text traffic between the FCPS board members. And in the process... Asian admissions dropped even as the class size grew larger. White admissions rose the most. Between the last year under the old system and the most recent class: white admissions rose by 54 (more than all other racial groups combined) black admissions rose by 12 hispanic admissiosns rose by 25 multiracial rose by 7 asian admissions dropped by 40 To be fair the county is mostly white so [b]if are trying to be more representative of the county[/b] you are going to get more white kids. But you are selecting for race not merit.[/quote] should it be more representative of the demographic makeup of the county or the applications? If 95% of the applications for varsity ice hockey team are white students, or if 95% of the applications to high school basketball team are black students, or if 95% of the applications to math counts team are asian students, should the selected make-up in each of those teams still be based on county racial composition? [/quote] If they did it based on applications, that would lower the current # of Asian students, as they are admitted at a higher rate than average. [/quote] are you sure? from another thread... denied % as well as count appears to be drastically different based on student ethnicity [img]https://i.ibb.co/QQHcLcD/2028-TJ-applicants-denied.jpg[/img] The admission rates for the various cohorts aren't all that different. The composition is mostly a reflection of who is applying. [/quote] It depends on how one views it. The largest number of declined applicants from single cohort is glaringly obvious. [/quote] 1. These aren’t real numbers. We don’t have the racial breakdown for the class of 2028 applicants. 2. We do have the breakdown for class of 2025 and Asian students were accepted at a HIGHER rate than average. Not to mention significantly higher numbers than all other groups. [/quote] The point being made here is why are over 1000+ asian american students being denied, disproportionately higher in number than other cohorts. [/quote] They are not being denied admission to TJ in [i]disproportionately[/i] higher numbers than other cohorts. To assert that they are is to misunderstand statistics. Asian students still have a [b]stronger[/b] chance to be admitted to TJ than non-Asian students on a per-student basis. This is inarguable based on the data from the 2025 process and there's no reason to re-litigate it here. What [i]is[/i] true is that the new process removes many of the advantages that Asian students enjoyed in the old process. Many here will argue that those advantages are earned and deserved through hard work and dedication to academics, and that's fine, but they are advantages no matter how you slice them. They are borne out fairly obviously by the statistics comparing admission offers to applicants in the old process. What's even more true is that the new process manifestly affords advantages to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are admitted at a rate that is higher than those from non-disadvantaged backgrounds. These are the facts. [/quote]
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