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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't think a disparate impact approach is going to work here, because the only way to argue "disparate impact" is to uphold the status quo.

Yes, a lottery will have a disparate impact on Asian and white students, but only insofar as NOT having a lottery upholds the current status quo, which is really not how that legal argument has traditionally been interpreted. [/quote]

The lottery will increase white students!  It only reduces Asian American students.[/quote]

Please note white students don't want to go here.  White applications have been declining and white acceptance has been declining.[/quote]

Likely true in general.  But if they implement a lottery, Asian numbers will decrease because many kids gun for TJ starting in elementary school and lottery reduces the prep advantage.  Don't get me wrong, I assume white kids gun for TJ too, but at smaller numbers.

The thing I don't understand from reading the threads is (I'm generalizing/summarizing): White students don't want to go to TJ.  Brown students don't want to go to TJ.  Asian students really want to go to TJ.  And we do a lottery which will lead to fewer Asian students going to TJ?  In what kind of suck ass county does that make sense?[/quote]

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