How Strong - Music EC

FiddlinEcon
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:45:57 +0000

hmom5, OK, your “almost half the class” (#105) should be added “kids from Alaska …”. But what %? If it is 5%, I will revise my statement to “the lowest score of un-hooked urban origin accepted students is below 55% tile.”
But I accept that NYC asian and white kids in private high schools have big disadvantage in admission of top schools. My friend asian parent whose kid was in the top public school in Long Island repeated about asian students’ disadvantage many times when her kid was about to apply to colleges but she always added that the situation of private schools is different. So you are saying it is different but worse than being in public. I have never heard of that from other asian parents in school. They may have hooks and your observation may be true.
I am in defence of URM but 17% recruited atheletes sounds to me a bit weird. Number of students of top schools (it may differ by your definition of top schools) is roughly 30,000, right? Among them, more than 5000 students are recruited atheletes? Wow! they are comparable in number to national merit finalisits.