By N.S.
Fri, Dec 10, 2021 10:16 p.m.
A Lowell High School Student Reviews the New Documentary about San Francisco’s Most Competitive Public School
https://www.sfgate.com/culture-columns/article/Lowell-student-reviews-Try-Harder-16688356.php
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They only made the movie as a way to cure insomnia.
--GRA
It would be interesting to see a graphic showing white enrollment at Lowell over time.
Lowell High School’s racial demographics to change next year, after merit-based admissions dropped
At the link above, a graphic shows the racial makeup of Lowell 20/21 vs 21/22, i.e. before and after 'merit-based admission policies are dropped' -- quick summary of the changes in fractional representation: Asian -10.4%, White -26%, Hispanic +81%, Black +153%.
Note: in 20/21 Whites were (only) 25% of students, in 21/22 they will be 18.5%; that's a decline of 6.5% in the number of students, but a 26% decline in their fraction size.
Recall Asians/Chinese filed what amounted to a class action suit against Harvard, claiming its admissions policies unfairly discriminated against them (they no doubt do; but the discrimination against Whites is worse) -- so I wonder if the decline in the fraction of Asians (10.4%) at Lowell being the smallest is in an attempt to fend off litigious Chinese parents -- of course today no one has a problem sticking it to whitey: the decline in the White fraction was the largest, and 2.5x the decline in the Asian fraction.
I still think the Univ of Calif will have to also abandon SAT and ACT scores as a primary admission criterion -- otherwise there is no way Hispanics, now the state's largest ethnic group, will ever be proportionately represented there -- the gap between the achievement scores of Whites (a slowly declining population) and Asians (still growing) is just too large.
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