Girl with 1370 SAT gets in to 5 Ivies

[Anonymous]

The dad went to Bucknell!!! Where's the bucknell booster!!

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Anonymous wrote:Would it be advisable if you have a rising soph to start some of the same programs but for a white male student? If that is what the Ivy programs are looking for that might be a good hook??

Yes, please have your white son start a program to combat colorism among white high school students. The first meeting can discuss whether blondes really do have more fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Would it be advisable if you have a rising soph to start some of the same programs but for a white male student? If that is what the Ivy programs are looking for that might be a good hook??

He needs to find an interest he can sustain for years and demonstate that sustained interests. The genuine commitment across several pursuits is more important than the subject of the commitment. What is one of his primary interests?

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The dad is a software engineer who graduated from bucknell (orig from Haiti) per Linkedin.

They are normal MC/UMC family.

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here's the article with no paywall. All over social media too:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/unicorn-meet-high-school-senior-152320505.html

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Anonymous wrote:Would it be advisable if you have a rising soph to start some of the same programs but for a white male student? If that is what the Ivy programs are looking for that might be a good hook??

Yes, please have your white son start a program to combat colorism among white high school students. The first meeting can discuss whether blondes really do have more fun.

Why is wrong for the white male student to start a club to combat colorism? first males are underrepresented in college, by a very large percentage. second, if indentity of one's race is important to that person, why can't there be a club for it?

If it works to get into an Ivy, you might see more clubs like that.

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

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She really has interesting and unique EC’s. One of her EC’s is “in her spare time, she also founded Still I Shine, a virtual community support group for Black high school-age girls dealing with “colorism” — discrimination against people with a dark skin tone within the same ethnic or racial groups.”

Colorism is such a huge problem. I don’t understand why it doesn’t get more press. How you end up getting treated by others really does vary by skin color. I have darker skin than my siblings and it isn’t just white people who treat darker skin people differently it is within our own ethnic/racial communities where the message is always lighter skin is superior.

Add to that she has 5 million views on a TikTok video. She is within the top 10 students of her high school class of almost 700. She is far, far more impressive than someone who scored 1600 with run of the mill EC’s.

All you haters thinking she got in only because she is black need to stop with all your petty insinuations. How about posting about white students who got in because they play white sports like women’s rugby, fencing or crew.

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Anonymous wrote:These are TO schools, I don’t understand why OP brings 1370 into the title. It’s irrelevant!

Because there are test required schools.
It's very relevant.

You seem to assume it’s the job of these universities to collect the highest achievers. I disagree. That’s too much of what they do already. Their job should be to make and mold them, not collect them.

It actually is the job of these schools to collect the highest achievers, and that's certainly what they've done in accepting this young woman. She is a rock star.

Test required means just that: test scores required. It does not mean: we only accept students above a certain score. That 1370 indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies at Yale and everywhere else she applied. And all her other accomplishments indicate she will thrive there and be a big contributor to her college community.

People think that these schools should be optimizing their inputs, and by optimizing they mean the highest academic inputs. Truth is that the schools want to optimize their outcomes and this kid looks like a dynamo. They got exactly what they wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:She really has interesting and unique EC’s. One of her EC’s is “in her spare time, she also founded Still I Shine, a virtual community support group for Black high school-age girls dealing with “colorism” — discrimination against people with a dark skin tone within the same ethnic or racial groups.”

Colorism is such a huge problem. I don’t understand why it doesn’t get more press. How you end up getting treated by others really does vary by skin color. I have darker skin than my siblings and it isn’t just white people who treat darker skin people differently it is within our own ethnic/racial communities where the message is always lighter skin is superior.

Add to that she has 5 million views on a TikTok video. She is within the top 10 students of her high school class of almost 700. She is far, far more impressive than someone who scored 1600 with run of the mill EC’s.

All you haters thinking she got in only because she is black need to stop with all your petty insinuations. How about posting about white students who got in because they play white sports like women’s rugby, fencing or crew.

This kid is going to crush it.

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Anonymous wrote:The dad went to Bucknell!!! Where's the bucknell booster!!

LOL

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members of congress are specifically calling out mediocre white males (rep. crockett), that white males are being radicalized (rep. omar), white males are the biggest threat to the United States (secretary mayorkas).

It might be smart for a white male student to answer these calls from our congresspeople and government leaders and start a club based on combating the threat that their white friends cause. Combating colorism should not available to all.

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Anonymous wrote:If her parents were educated outside the United States, she’s considered “First Gen”.

“First Gen” is the best hook you can have right now.

That is not the definition of First Gen. They ask where parents went to college. If they went to college - at all - anywhere - that is not considered "FG". They will also look at careers.

I didn't read the article. What are the parents careers?

That’s not true. If her parents went to college outside the US, she falls under “first gen”.

No, first gen means first gen to go to college anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:These are TO schools, I don’t understand why OP brings 1370 into the title. It’s irrelevant!

Because there are test required schools.
It's very relevant.

You seem to assume it’s the job of these universities to collect the highest achievers. I disagree. That’s too much of what they do already. Their job should be to make and mold them, not collect them.

It actually is the job of these schools to collect the highest achievers, and that's certainly what they've done in accepting this young woman. She is a rock star.

Test required means just that: test scores required. It does not mean: we only accept students above a certain score. That 1370 indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies at Yale and everywhere else she applied. And all her other accomplishments indicate she will thrive there and be a big contributor to her college community.

People think that these schools should be optimizing their inputs, and by optimizing they mean the highest academic inputs. Truth is that the schools want to optimize their outcomes and this kid looks like a dynamo. They got exactly what they wanted.

+1. There are many, many thousands of applications showing strong academic stats. These schools are slicing and dicing the other qualities to choose their classes. They have way too many academic superstars for that to be the only criteria.

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Anonymous wrote:She really has interesting and unique EC’s. One of her EC’s is “in her spare time, she also founded Still I Shine, a virtual community support group for Black high school-age girls dealing with “colorism” — discrimination against people with a dark skin tone within the same ethnic or racial groups.”

Colorism is such a huge problem. I don’t understand why it doesn’t get more press. How you end up getting treated by others really does vary by skin color. I have darker skin than my siblings and it isn’t just white people who treat darker skin people differently it is within our own ethnic/racial communities where the message is always lighter skin is superior.

Add to that she has 5 million views on a TikTok video. She is within the top 10 students of her high school class of almost 700. She is far, far more impressive than someone who scored 1600 with run of the mill EC’s.

All you haters thinking she got in only because she is black need to stop with all your petty insinuations. How about posting about white students who got in because they play white sports like women’s rugby, fencing or crew.

This kid is going to crush it.

In remedial reading and math classes while majoring in African studies.