Where do the genius level kids go these days?

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbor's kid is a genius/mensa/everything . Went to UVA. Now at Oxford for grad work

Heeeeee's back!

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MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin

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Google, Apple, Microsoft

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Anonymous wrote:When we lived in California, the answer was Berkeley with the Regent’s merit scholarship that allows you things like first pick of dorms and classes, in addition to some merit money

Regents offers $5000 a year. Doesn’t make a big difference when HYPSM are on the table.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a school that most of these extraordinary kids are going to now? It seems the Ivies are mostly athletes, legacies, and URM picks.

Disagree with your premise - the research shows that the legacies/athletes/URM are just as brilliant as those that didn't get in - but there are only so many seats, so the seats go to the brilliant ones who have the above hooks. Regardless, here's my off the cuff answer.

MIT, Stanford, Berkeley.

Which research?

DP: That's what the investigation found--and is in a few of the NYtimes articles on this. These hooked groups (legacies/athletes/URM) who were admitted weren't less brilliant than the students that didn't get in, it's just that there were far more equally brilliant students so the hook is what made the cut. All other things being equal, the hook adds an advantage.

My URM kid got a 36 and has a 94 GPA from a local non "big three" private. We do not think she has much of a chance to get in to an Ivy. URM is not the "hook" that people claim.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-affirmative-action-rationale-is-bogus


"the average Asian-American admittee to Harvard had SAT scores roughly 120 points higher than blacks admitted and 50 points higher than whites.

(This is a low estimate, as a third or more of Asian applicants would have scored higher than the maximum SAT score had the maximum been increased.)"

It's a test optional world now.

Stop treating SAT scores as the arbiter of who should get accepted.