Definitely not true. If you’re applying from a “bad” high school you better be at the tippy top of the class (not just top 10% or 20%) and you’ll have to source all your extracurriculars on your own. You also will have to self-study to get 5s on AP tests for your AP classes (if offered). If the average SAT at your HS is an 900, the admissions officers will assume you scored similarly if you apply TO. And so on. But you knew that, or else you’d put your kid in Dunbar or Anascotia tomorrow. |
Exactly. |
Good The whole women in stem thing is bs Iran puts more women in stem than the Nordic countries…which is better for women? |
This is not really the case. We’re at such a school and kids get zero counseling or help with school selection. My daughter spoke to a counselor for ten min at the start of senior year and that was it. The counselors focus on getting kids to graduate, they don’t have the bandwidth to care about what colleges the kids go to. Looking at Naviance, a lot of top schools never accept the high stats kids who apply from our school and it’s probably because they think the kids aren’t prepared. |
Depends on the rationale. There are Asian Americans on this site threatening to bring discriminatory impact suits against every college with a football team. And they think they’ll win. |
Which is why being a top students with parents who can navigate the process is such an advantage |
They are delusional. College football means a lot more to conservatives in this country than perceived discrimination |
And if you're honest, most are not prepared. Pretty much the only ones are those who self-study outside of school. My kids go to a similar (in their case DCPS) high school and the quality of instruction is basically pretty terrible (two of my kids' classes don't even currently have teachers). |
LOL how is the current college environment “racist” against Asians when they are already represented 2-3x in elite colleges relative to their share of population? Your criticism makes zero sense. Asians are doing f#cking awesome under the current system. |
what a dumb comparison. The politics and religion of the country has nothing to do with women in STEM. India had a female PM. US has never had a female leader. Which is better for women? See? Dumb comparison. |
I agree, but I’m not sure I trust the Court to write this spring’s opinion with this in mind. The Harvard personality thing cries out for rhetoric about discriminatory impact. |
Lol back to you and reread all the non objective criteria asian Americans are assessed by in the Harvard lawsuit. Kudos to Asian Americans still beating the odds despite that stacked against them. |
DP.. the point is without some form of aa, you'd see even more Asian Americans (and whites) in top schools. Look at what happened when CA passed Prop 209. Admission rates for URM dropped. |
Lol. Because YOU could do so much better? |
Sounds like your kid talked to a guidance counselor not the college counselor. Again, you or your child must do your own homework when it comes to college admissions |