Not in the slightest. My kids played “the game” of NYC high school admissions – and they did it exceedingly well. However, even as an elected board member of the Stuyvesant High school Parents’ Association – and the Fundraising Chair for two years in a row – I complained that too many Asians and too few African American and Hispanic students were admitted to the school. Think about it for a minute:
With the above percentages and an enrollment of 3200 students, it means 2368 students are Asian, 32 are African American, 96 students are hispanic and 640 are white. My kids, who are white, were one of the minorities in the school. Imagine what an African American student feels like? Or a Latino student! Those percentages are NOT representative of the mosaic of NYC or anywhere else in the world except maybe China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. That kind of environment is homogeneous and NOT culturally diverse – and I think the school was lacking because of it.