A U.S. federal court has ruled against Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s (TJ) revised admission policy pushing for “racial equity,” judging it discriminatory against Asian-American students. TJ, which focuses on the STEM fields, is an elite Governor’s School in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system. It requires prospective students to go through an entrance exam for admission. Asian students have secured most admissions, making up roughly 72 percent of students in the 2020-2021 school year. Before the new admission system was introduced in fall 2020, applicants for TJ were required to fulfill five criteria: They had to reside in one of the five participating school divisions, have a minimum core 3.0 GPA, be enrolled in eighth grade, be enrolled in or complete Algebra I, and pay a $100 application fee. The applicants then had to go through standardized tests—ACT Inspire Reading, ACT Inspire Science, and Quant-Q. …