[leephillips]

I noticed the same lumping, and came to the same conclusion. When reading the NYT, keep in mind that the agenda comes first, and the way information is imparted serves that agenda. And, at times, if the facts can't be massaged to serve the agenda, the paper resorts to outright lying: http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA

[apparent]

Later in the article, he provides this stat:

> About 19 percent of all public school students are Asian, but they received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall. The rates were higher at some schools, including 69 percent at Stuyvesant and 78 percent at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College.

If Asians are 3-4x overrepresented then they are the most over-represented group. It is telling that he does not provide comparable stats for any other group, though at least I give him credit for not aggregating Asian and white students everywhere in the article.

[leereeves]

> [Asians] received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall

Does that imply that whites received less than 44% of the offers, and does that make whites underrepresented?

[apparent]

Not necessarily because whites are only around 15% of the NYC public school population. But it means they are not as over-represented as Asian students, since there are also some Hispanic students who are admitted, which caps how high the white percentage could be.