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Anonymous wrote:Why do athletes get a huge "hook"?

They don't. That's been the problem the last decade. Maybe after one of the worst football seasons ever, the school will re-evaulate and consider a holistic approach to admissions. There are enough full pay Chinese math wizzes at it is.

I truly hope that you are not a STA parent. It would be quite disheartening to know that such blatant racism exists among the STA parent body.

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Blatant racism or fact-based observation?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/achievement-gap-widening-between-asian-american-students-and-everyone-else/2011/04/05/AF5YvclC_story.html

This article says nothing about Chinese students being math whizzes, and it isn't even about the full-pay Chinese students to whom pp seemingly referred (boarders). It isn't even talking about Chinese students. It's talking about Asian American students. So I'm sorry, what facts? The comment and the article are not particularly aligned.

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Anonymous wrote:Has the Beauvoir pipeline been contracting lately?

Not at all. Something like 32 or 33 boys going to sta next year from BVR.

Anonymous wrote:Will Covid make it easier to get in this coming admissions cycle?

Anonymous wrote:Has the Beauvoir pipeline been contracting lately?

Anonymous wrote:We have hosted a couple of the Chinese boys in our home for various reasons and they are all nice, normal, friendly boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Athletics still provides a big hook for STA grads into top universities. In each class, at least 10-15 will be recruited (for soccer, football, crew, lacrosse, and baseball). That is an important thing to consider.

Soccer, yes, because they are an area powerhouse.

Crew and lacrosse, yes, because those are traditional prep school sports and their rowers and laxers do get recruited by great schools.

But football? I think not. If you are a recruitable player, you need to look at places like Bullis or SJC.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do athletes get a huge "hook"?

They don't. That's been the problem the last decade. Maybe after one of the worst football seasons ever, the school will re-evaulate and consider a holistic approach to admissions. There are enough full pay Chinese math wizzes at it is.

I truly hope that you are not a STA parent. It would be quite disheartening to know that such blatant racism exists among the STA parent body.

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Blatant racism or fact-based observation?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/achievement-gap-widening-between-asian-american-students-and-everyone-else/2011/04/05/AF5YvclC_story.html

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Anonymous wrote:Why do athletes get a huge "hook"?

They don't. That's been the problem the last decade. Maybe after one of the worst football seasons ever, the school will re-evaulate and consider a holistic approach to admissions. There are enough full pay Chinese math wizzes at it is.

I truly hope that you are not a STA parent. It would be quite disheartening to know that such blatant racism exists among the STA parent body.

NP - Every time people mention race it is not racism. It is funny that the same people who talk about "cultural appropriation" and multiculturalism criticize people for mentioning some observation about people and their culture. It is a fact that several private schools in the area have admitted full-pay students from China. At STA, these are some of the few people who are allowed to deviate substantially from the math curriculum by moving ahead of their cohort. If people want their children to be exposed to a variety of people with a variety of interests, they can have an opinion about what proportion of the class should be students here from China. I have a math whiz from MoCo, but I agree.

NP: the element of racism isn't in mentioning race. It's in the math whiz stereotype of Chinese students to a small degree, but to a larger degree, it's in saying that sta doesn't need any more of these math whiz Chinese students. Sta has enough? Like there needs to be a limit before there are too many Chinese students? Imagine if someone said "we have enough Entitled white boys," or "we already have enough athletic black boys.". Both statements trade in stereotypes and suggest that there ought to be limits to the number of boys of particular races, as more would be... Bad. I don't think pp can claim that the comment had no negative connotations.