The new system does not consider race explicitly. The largest change in demographics is on students on free-and-reduced lunch, so the usual concerns of "but you should consider class rather than race" don't make much sense here. We've also seen huge increases in the number of neuro-atypical admits. Concerns that the system would just replace asian students with white students were also unfounded.

Further, the system proposed by activists (the merit lottery, which was rejected in large part due to opposition by folks like Asra) does not even include the "holistic" elements that critics claim hide anti-asian bias, yet this system was called racist all the same. I've personally had people call me a racist as well as somebody who "hates excellence" for my support of the merit lottery. Asra (the author of this piece) has specifically called several of my friends a lot of very nasty names.

I am also a TJ grad. I also personally think the fact that there is limited access to the education offered there is fundamentally stupid and that people should step back and consider why 13 year olds (and younger, my parents were provided a path to TJ for me when I was four) need to compete over this access.