Rejected or waitlisted everywhere I wanted to attend due to my race

What schools did you apply to?

5 Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, and Chicago

I'll be attending Rice or WashU if I don't get off the waitlist at a couple

Those schools get tons of applicants with your qualifications - far more than they have spots for. Rice and Wash U are great schools - congrats on getting in! Who advised you to only apply to so few schools? I think you went in with the wrong expectations.

Just say you’re part Hispanic. Take a trip to like Argentina to connect with your heritage

Are you planning on running?

Will you pay full freight, or receive aid?

Did you tell schools what your planned major was?

What state are you from?

I do not see sub-4.6 40 yard dash listed.

I do not see f.a.t. sub-11 100m dash listed.

I do not see 400 pounds free weight squat listed.

I do not see 10 reps, 225 bench press listed.

You are weak and you do not deserve to go to a good school.

You're ridiculous, and nobody should have sympathy for people like you. You didn't get in because, while qualified academically, you don't stand out from the thousands and thousands of others just like you, for reasons well beyond race.

I went to UChicago, where everyone was just like you plus some incredible talent--published a novel, International Math Olympiad, startup founder, etc.

So stop blaming your rejection on your race, go to one of the excellent other schools you got into, and make the best of it. And good for the Ivies, etc. for avoiding your sh*t attitude.

I'm also mixed race Asian-White and never considered myself a victim. It's so odd to read this.

Your qualifications are really not that great or unusual for these schools. Your best bet is to do well as an undergrad and get into these schools for graduate education. And as a child and friend of Northwestern grads, NU undergrad is only notable for journalism, communications, acting, music, etc.

Did you have to write essays too? I'm curious how those went based on your posts.

maybe if you were not such a mediocre person you'd have a school to go to. Why would any college want a person like you on their campus?

Take a gap year. There’s a good chance the Supreme Court changes the game and the class of 2028 will be more ideologically diverse. With the price you’re gonna pay for a prestigious degree, you want to get the best network possible.

You got to blame yourself at some point. It sucks, but what about all the other half-white/half-asian kids that got in above you. Shouldn't you be 'better' than them too? I'm saying this because when I was in a similar (but different) situation my first thought was "wow I'm just as indistinguishable as everyone else like me....". I remember talking with my dad at this similar (but different) point in my life and he rather-unsympathetically said "looks like you'll have to make other plans". Now, and at the time, I see why he did this: to convince me that it wasn't a big deal, life goes on and you'll just have to find a way to make whatever "it" is work.

The real problem is that with anyone with a brain and time could do what you did (unless the extracurriculars are really unique). You have to actually distinguish yourself somehow, and do something that not everyone can do. I don't know what this is, and it is hard to know in HS, but I feel like this is the only way someone can know that they are a sure shot at one of these fancy places.

An Ivy-league undergrad I know is one of the very rare few to get a full academic ride to an Ivy (and he's not a minority or low-income). How? He worked in research labs for a few summers in HS, -- and spent all of his free time in the library reading math textbooks, -- and took (real) college courses where he could, -- and tried to read Ezra Pound's Chinese, -- and worked as an EMT. Just gives off the impression of someone who will excel at anything. All the other undergrads are less impressive than this, but this would be an example of someone who is a sure shot.

A cope that I took is "there's always grad school": it's much easier, in some ways, to get into a top grad school than it is to get in top undergrad, and this is where you'll wind up getting a lot of the "training" on what you'll be doing for the rest of your life. Not the same experience by any means, but not going to one of these schools does not mean that you are doomed to mediocrity. Not having the pedigree of a fancy undergrad might put a "chip on your shoulder"...

I respect the unweighted 4.0 though

Take a gap year. There’s a good chance the Supreme Court changes the game and the class of 2028 will be more ideologically diverse. With the price you’re gonna pay for a prestigious degree, you want to get the best network possible.

NERD

Sorry you didn't see this coming but over 100,000 students applied to some of those schools. Those are no longer safeties for anyone. You have great choices and will do fine. Not that this makes you any happier but some of my son's minority, first generation friends had similar scores and were rejected as well. Again, you'll do fine.

I applied to a couple of safeties as well.

- I wasn't. I'm nowhere near fast enough
- Cost wouldn't be an issue
- I was an intended math major
- I'm from Orange County

The Ivy League doesn't offer any academic or other merit scholarships, so your friend is lying.

Ivies are overrated.

I got into Yale as a full asian back in the day but couldn’t go because it was too expensive. instead went to a UAA school that gave me some scholarship $$.

WashU is full of hyper-competitive premeds. Maybe best to avoid unless that’s your thing. also the med school is full of Ivy League grads who think they’re the greatest thing ever.

At some point in your career no one will care anymore where you went to college, just what you’ve done lately.

all that being said I’m a bit dubious of your story. but it’s likely this happens in all the time real life