I think it's eye opening for some people to see how competitive CS admissions is. |
Schools don't know how many you apply to. And with results like this of course kid are applying widely. |
i guess it's not tech related? why would they flag it |
nah, California schools receive too many applications - mistakes will happen, especially the people who read your essays are all temps. |
Can you say this to billionaires that they already have enough, so they should not get any more $$$? Or you yourself probably have enough than the homeless on the street, so you do not need more and please give your properties to the people in poverty. |
but UCs take the top 6 or 7%. Again, he should've gone to a lower performing school to really stand out academically. |
+1 |
Why I cannot just want to go to an Ivy. Don't be a hypocrite. |
| Coding is just a technical skill that many people can acquired. Back to the 90s, so many people took a class and become a programmer. Coding skill is so common that it just like a technician in a special field. On the top of the pyramid are those smart people who innovate big ideas and great architecture. There is not evident this kid is extremely smart in that. This kid started coding from very early age. Bill Gate did coding at very age. That is fine. It's because a that time, not many people knows how to code. But now, millions of people knows how to code. even AI is can code too. Doing things millions can do at early age just wasting time. He shouldn't spend his childhood doing coding - a low level jobs like a technician. He should be learning Math, exploring literature and histories. Good colleges are looking people who are special, who are smarter than any others, but not kids who start doing easy thing early. This case is not a race discrimination, and don't get it wrong. |
| So many lame excuses for plain and simple racism on this thread. Sad! |
I thought California universities were race blind? He got (almost) shut out because there were many other better-qualified kids from his HS. |
| The system is broken. |
Nice that you can reach this conclusion without actually having seen his application. |
Although possessing of high academic credentials, this applicant was adjudged to have 'poor' personality traits such as lacking in empathy, leadership potential, honesty and integrity and thus received the lowest possible score (just like most high scoring Asian students lacking legacy/connections) and thus rejected from the freshmen class. |
Oh my God. It's college, not a fraternity. |