<p>zoosermom, </p>
<p>Yes and no. There are also a lot of black and white kids who won’t go to Stuy even if they get in because they don’t want to compete with Asian kids they suspect are willing to work a lot harder than they are.</p>
<p>Moreover, when NYC offered the Discovery program, reality is that Asian kids from disadvantaged homes who didn’t make the cut off were more likely to enroll than African-American kids. Part of the reason the program was discontinued was just that–it was not successful in achieving any significant increase in the % of URMs who enrolled in the schools.</p>