Anonymous wrote:This past Friday my husband and I attended a party and one conversation between the ladies led to the AAP. One of them was very adamant that Black and Hispanic children are admitted more easily into the program once they are on the pool. This because, she explained, there were so few of these children on the AAP vs. White and Asian kids. So, my question is if there is some type of affirmative action policy active in the AAP section process or was she misinformed?

Hogwash. If it were true there would be more black and Hispanic children in the program. SES is the biggest determining factor regardless of race. Just look at the Class of 2016 TJ acceptance rates of black and Hispanic children compared to white and Aisian children. If there were some sort of favoring going on, I wouldn't think the acceptance rates wouldn't be as low as they are.

White 126 out of 1,239 or 10.17%
Asian 308 out of 1,469 or 20.96%
African American 7 out of 235 or 2.98%
Hispanic 13 out of 285 or 4.56%

If there were any kind of Affirmative Action going on there would more than 7 AA and 13 Hispanic students accepted.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/tj/tjadmissions0412.pdf


People who look at a black or Hispanic child and think that the reason a black or Hispanic child is in an academic advanced program is because they have a lower bar to attend, need to examine their own prejudices.

I don't know for sure but I'm Asian and my husband is black. I have been told by just about everyone our children should identify on the forms as black or mixed to increase our chances. I don't know if it's true or not but the school staff sure seem to think it is.

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/review/ExecutiveSummary.pdf

Recommendations for Identification Procedures

Continue to seek ways to identify an AAP population that is congruent with the general demographics of FCPS, increasing diversity of historically under- represented populations (African Americans, Hispanics, ESOL students, and students eligible for free- or reduced-price lunch).

If this were truly the case, wouldn't they be overrepresented instead of grossly underrepresented in the AAP program?

see - http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/359574.page

Q for OP - Whats your race, you did not mention ? I can tell you that you are totally wrong on this.

I am sure that they are admitted more easily in order to try to achieve some diversity. Colleges do it, why wouldn't the schools? I think it is awesome. You said yourself it is for kids who already made the cut for the pool. No one is lowering any standards.

Yes, "young scholars" program.

Misinformed and I agree with PPs about That Party

you are nuts

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fun party

LOL, my thoughts exactly.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Fun party

LOL, my thoughts exactly.

Fun party

Sorry, meant to write "selection" process.

This past Friday my husband and I attended a party and one conversation between the ladies led to the AAP. One of them was very adamant that Black and Hispanic children are admitted more easily into the program once they are on the pool. This because, she explained, there were so few of these children on the AAP vs. White and Asian kids. So, my question is if there is some type of affirmative action policy active in the AAP section process or was she misinformed?