Any suggestion / advise from Ivy League students for TJ students

[Anonymous]

This is a broad question so feel free to provide any advise.

[Anonymous]

Don't be Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't be Asian.

We are Asians. I hear it is extremely competitive to get into Ivy being Asian. So looking for some tips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't be Asian.

We are Asians. I hear it is extremely competitive to get into Ivy being Asian. So looking for some tips.

If you want to stand out from the thousands of highly Asian applicants, don’t focus solely on activities associated with the Asian community. Piano, robotics, Chinese language classes, chess, math competitions, coding. Unless you’re a true outlier. Write for your school newspaper, play a sport, excel in debate, run for student government. Don’t indicate a CS or engineering major. My two cents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't be Asian.

We are Asians. I hear it is extremely competitive to get into Ivy being Asian. So looking for some tips.

If you want to stand out from the thousands of highly Asian applicants, don’t focus solely on activities associated with the Asian community. Piano, robotics, Chinese language classes, chess, math competitions, coding. Unless you’re a true outlier. Write for your school newspaper, play a sport, excel in debate, run for student government. Don’t indicate a CS or engineering major. My two cents.

*highly competitive

[Anonymous]

Look at liberal arts colleges instead.

[Anonymous]

Follow this guy from Iron chef

https://news.yale.edu/2015/11/19/turkey-tips-alumnus-engineer-qa-ming-tsai-86

I’ve read elsewhere he wasn’t much of a student in high school but now see from this article father was a famous professor.

If I were Asian and gunning for the Ivy. Ice hockey

[Anonymous]

Earn the Eagle Rank in Scouts BSA or the Gold Award in Girl Scouts. They both show a level of dedication and commitment that is multi year and community involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Earn the Eagle Rank in Scouts BSA or the Gold Award in Girl Scouts. They both show a level of dedication and commitment that is multi year and community involved.

There are many thousands of students with these awards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at liberal arts colleges instead.

This. Asians get an admissions bump at some of them because they are under represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Follow this guy from Iron chef

https://news.yale.edu/2015/11/19/turkey-tips-alumnus-engineer-qa-ming-tsai-86

I’ve read elsewhere he wasn’t much of a student in high school but now see from this article father was a famous professor.

If I were Asian and gunning for the Ivy. Ice hockey

ECAC hockey is one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Unless the kid is actually athletically gifted, it isn't happening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Follow this guy from Iron chef

https://news.yale.edu/2015/11/19/turkey-tips-alumnus-engineer-qa-ming-tsai-86

I’ve read elsewhere he wasn’t much of a student in high school but now see from this article father was a famous professor.

If I were Asian and gunning for the Ivy. Ice hockey

ECAC hockey is one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Unless the kid is actually athletically gifted, it isn't happening

+1. Nobody cares if the ice hockey player is Asian or not.

[Anonymous]

Don’t have your heart set on an Ivy League school - they are so hard to get into these days. You’ll do well at any number of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Follow this guy from Iron chef

https://news.yale.edu/2015/11/19/turkey-tips-alumnus-engineer-qa-ming-tsai-86

I’ve read elsewhere he wasn’t much of a student in high school but now see from this article father was a famous professor.

If I were Asian and gunning for the Ivy. Ice hockey

ECAC hockey is one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Unless the kid is actually athletically gifted, it isn't happening

Yeah WTF. You're not picking up hockey for the first time in high school and getting recruited to an Ivy League team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a broad question so feel free to provide any advise.

Not a Ivy student or parent, but parent of a senior going through college admissions. My learning: Highly selective schools such as Ivy and T-20s and public flagships are highly highly competitive that it is essentially a lottery. Change your perspective. We need to encourage students to bloom where they are planted.