Sounds like 8 too many. Everything should always be based on merit. Not on what you look like. Articles like this are basically saying "its racist to not let low effort, low preforming students into your elite schools to fuck them up". Fuck that, if you don't have the skills you don't get in. No free passes because you are not White or Asian. From the post: For years, the low representation of Black and Hispanic students in New York City’s most selective public high schools has ignited debate over race and segregation in the largest school system in the United States — and this summer appears likely to be no different. On Thursday, the Department of Education announced that Black students received 3 percent of acceptance letters to the eight elite schools, known as specialized high schools, while Hispanic students were offered just under 7 percent of all spots. Both figures were a slight decline from last year.