Literally every African American he knew was an athlete; the rest were kids of typically wealthy Nigerian/Ghanaian/Ethiopian/Kenyan/etc immigrants. Agree that legacy is so helpful - it’s almost guaranteed acceptance if you apply ED, have a 1550+ or 36, and have good extracurriculars and grades. Being full pay helps as well even though they’re allegedly need blind
If you got rejected everywhere, they all saw the same thing and it wasn’t your race. Something about you as a person, made you less than ideal.
The correct answer!
He says his interviews were good, but he also thought this post was good, so I have serious concerns about his connection to reality. A mere 6.5% of Harvard students are black an of that 6.5%, 4% are athletes on scholarship. If affirmative action was taking up all the spots for the grossly oppressed and victimized white/Asian population, I suspect those numbers would be higher.
You might want to check the mirror when looking for the cause of your failures.
Bingo. The kind of person that would be accepted at those schools is not the kind of person that would make this thread.
Literally every African American he knew was an athlete; the rest were kids of typically wealthy Nigerian/Ghanaian/Ethiopian/Kenyan/etc immigrants. Agree that legacy is so helpful - it’s almost guaranteed acceptance if you apply ED, have a 1550+ or 36, and have good extracurriculars and grades. Being full pay helps as well even though they’re allegedly need blind
I know the original OP / complainer didn’t mention Georgetown, but their campus is 40 percent legacies.
Bro just get a good degree 📜, it’s fine if it’s not top 10 schools in America. You have a 99 %tile scores, use it to your advantage and get scholarships to schools with strong programs in whatever you want to be. I know people who went to med school who got like 1600/2400 on the old SAT, and I know engineers who got like 620/800 on the math SAT. Their achievements in medicine / engineering overshadow some high school tests. Use your strong test taking skills and get a good degree.
If you got rejected everywhere, they all saw the same thing and it wasn’t your race. Something about you as a person, made you less than ideal.
The correct answer!
He says his interviews were good, but he also thought this post was good, so I have serious concerns about his connection to reality. A mere 6.5% of Harvard students are black an of that 6.5%, 4% are athletes on scholarship. If affirmative action was taking up all the spots for the grossly oppressed and victimized white/Asian population, I suspect those numbers would be higher.
You might want to check the mirror when looking for the cause of your failures.
The Ivy League doesn't do sports scholarships so that's a lie and I bet he has higher academics than 99% of the black and legacy white students
I mean discrimination against Asians is bad but when you ALSO act like a dbag to ppl on the other side of it, you will lose. Probably starting with the current supreme court session.
The OP is a dbag, you responded to the wrong post.
Nope you support racism so that makes you the dbag
He says his interviews were good, but he also thought this post was good, so I have serious concerns about his connection to reality. A mere 6.5% of Harvard students are black an of that 6.5%, 4% are athletes on scholarship. If affirmative action was taking up all the spots for the grossly oppressed and victimized white/Asian population, I suspect those numbers would be higher.
You might want to check the mirror when looking for the cause of your failures.
Bingo. The kind of person that would be accepted at those schools is not the kind of person that would make this thread.
You would have said the same thing to Jews who were discriminated against from the Ivies in the 1950s
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
I’m not going to look up an exact number but there’s at least 5000 Asian or White kids going to these schools every year. Maybe there’s more to college apps than just stats. Also, undergrad doesn’t matter. You can easily go to med school, law school, or a top MBA program and come out making a lot of money.
After that you can maybe try figuring out to be happy and not blame all your problems on the government or black people!
You would have said the same thing to Jews who were discriminated against from the Ivies in the 1950s
If they had the same messageboard tendencies as the OP? Absolutely. Because that, like this, would’ve revealed the true reason for the rejection/s.
Screw you man. He's just an 18-yo sharing his experience. Many Asians in his position are discriminated against and it has nothing to do with what "message board habits" offend you. I recently saw a poll that only 19% of Asian Americans feel part of this country. That is sad and also unsurprising when they know they are openly discriminated against and then there are jackasses like you who cheer it on and kick them when they are down.
Should I take a gap year and reapply after the Supreme Court likely bans affirmative action?
- 1580, 36; 4.0 unweighted in the most rigorous classes, top 5%; 3 state level extracurriculars and 1 national level extracurricular, but I'm also biracial - half Asian and half white. My interviews also were good, and I'm sure my rec letters were good as well. I know that if I had been any other race, I'd likely have been accepted everywhere I applied
Should I take a gap year or apply to transfer as a freshman?
Another loser who believes a minority took his spot at an ivy league ignoring the fact that it could have been someone like George W Bush who got into Yale and Harvard as an average student.
If he were black he'd have been accepted everywhere.
If he were black and exactly the same intelligence, he wouldn't have had the parents, pressure, parent money and direction, and maybe test prep/coaching to get those scores, grades, and extracurriculars. Especially someone living in Orange County has way more opportunity and pipeline to get those things accomplished.
If he were black he'd have been accepted everywhere.
If he were black and exactly the same intelligence, he wouldn't have had the parents, pressure, parent money and direction, and maybe test prep/coaching to get those scores, grades, and extracurriculars. Especially someone living in Orange County has way more opportunity and pipeline to get those things accomplished.
Fact is if he were super-wealthy but black or hispanic or even white, he'd be in.
Race is a factor in admissions no matter how you spin it.
And the other fact is test prep/coaching doesn't actually help test scores much
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If he were black and exactly the same intelligence, he wouldn't have had the parents, pressure, parent money and direction, and maybe test prep/coaching to get those scores, grades, and extracurriculars. Especially someone living in Orange County has way more opportunity and pipeline to get those things accomplished.
Fact is if he were super-wealthy but black or hispanic or even white, he'd be in.
Race is a factor in admissions no matter how you spin it.
And the other fact is test prep/coaching doesn't actually help test scores much
You had to qualify that by adding super-wealthy, which disqualifies your response. I said if he were black and exactly the same intelligence, not black, exactly the same intelligence, and super wealthy.
Fact is if he were super-wealthy but black or hispanic or even white, he'd be in.
Race is a factor in admissions no matter how you spin it.
And the other fact is test prep/coaching doesn't actually help test scores much
You had to qualify that by adding super-wealthy, which disqualifies your response. I said if he were black and exactly the same intelligence, not black, exactly the same intelligence, and super wealthy.
Except you implied that a black student wouldn't be wealthy enough to afford test prep or have active parents or whatever.
Fact is if you change nothing on his app except the race, he's a shoo-in
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