Sat score of 2250 for NY student that was admitted to 8 ivies. Sat average of DC privates??

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Anonymous wrote:You know, some people, deep down inside just. don't. want. to. see. black. people. achieve.

+ 1M....

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Anonymous wrote:You friend chose her chidren's father based on test scores.

That is a very pathetic story.

Everyone does it. The banks almost never have donors who have health, academic or social problems, or at least they try not to.
It is a place to start, the you look at personality and other characteristics.

Anyway, don't forget the point...white guys get into ivies with average like scores.

Sure but what if that white guy with average scores did something amazing and compationate and life altering. What if that is why he was admitted. Thank god schools don't just look at scores, like your friend did. Also, why was your friend only looking at white guys. The whole thing is odd.

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Anonymous wrote:You friend chose her chidren's father based on test scores.

That is a very pathetic story.

Everyone does it. The banks almost never have donors who have health, academic or social problems, or at least they try not to.
It is a place to start, the you look at personality and other characteristics.

Anyway, don't forget the point...white guys get into ivies with average like scores.

Sure but what if that white guy with average scores did something amazing and compationate and life altering. What if that is why he was admitted. Thank god schools don't just look at scores, like your friend did. Also, why was your friend only looking at white guys. The whole thing is odd.

Not odd, she was going to be an older single mother. The questions come up all the time. You get more questions when the child looks different.

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Anonymous wrote:2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here.

It is not even close to a "leading Long Island high school". Over 30% farms.

More of a reason his scores are impressive. Had he been at a top LI school, maybe he would have done even better. If anything the supposed affirmative action was geographic.

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Anonymous wrote:+1000. Yay! Some folks are just mad that somebody else took a piece of what they thought was their pie.

yup

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Anonymous wrote:If you get 100 applications from white, privileged kids for every application from a son of Ghanaian immigrants who scores equally high and does just the same number of extracurriciular activities (perhaps even more), who do you think is going to stand out in the admissions office as someone who has an interesting story to tell?

According to CNN, this kid plays three instruments for the chamber orchestra, sings in an a cappella group, throws shot put and discus for the high school's track and field team, participates in student government and has had a lead role in school plays since the ninth grade.

That together with good SATs and grades and probably great recommendations is quite a package.

BTW, he also was accepted to Duke and three NY state campuses.

I am a white Ivy league graduate who had average Ivy league SAT scores (did much better on ACTs) and average Ivy League high school grade point average but was from a small midwestern town where no one ever sent in applications and that probably helped me get accepted. It at least made me stand out. Colleges are always looking at more than grades and test scores.

Exactly. Affirmative action. That is why he was chosen by all and there is news coverage on it. Is he the only person to ever score this high? Nope. Is he the only one with ties to Ivies, play instruments etc... Nope. The only one to get accepted to all? Nope. Than why the big story. Hmmm. One guess?

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Anonymous wrote:2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here.

It is not even close to a "leading Long Island high school". Over 30% farms.

More of a reason his scores are impressive. Had he been at a top LI school, maybe he would have done even better. If anything the supposed affirmative action was geographic.

He isn't poor. His family comes from Ivies.

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Let's just say the kid is not a genius but also is far from a slouch. If he was white or Asia, would he have been accepted? Probably not to all 8 but maybe. 2250 is in the range for the top schools and his being in the top 2% of the class, meaning that he is probably in the top 5 students. I don't know but I think those data points are good enough to get consideration to any top university. Tell me that I am wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here.

No, not really. Those stats don't really stand out at Ivy Leagues. Not to mention, his ECs were insignifiicant and not up to par with most Ivy candidates.

Wrong. Ivy League schools are looking for creative kids and future leaders. They don't just want the kids who were chained to their desks doing SAT prep for four years, because they know these aren't the kids who are most likely to succeed in most fields. An example: my own kid, who had SATs lower than this kid's 2250 (but still over 2100, which seems to be a threshold) and who got into one of those Ivies that takes 6-7% of kids on the basis of national level achievements in an EC. And before you cry "affirmative action", my kid is a white girl from MoCo, about the least favored group (after Asians maybe) of kids.

Something about this kid's leadership ECs, creativity and work ethic (all of which you casually dismiss) stood out to admissions committees.

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This kid obviously has a number of things going for him. I know of several AA kids in the DC area with higher SAT scores (in some cases, much higher) who did not come close to "sweeping" the Ivies. Bravo!

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Anonymous wrote:Let's just say the kid is not a genius but also is far from a slouch. If he was white or Asia, would he have been accepted? Probably not to all 8 but maybe. 2250 is in the range for the top schools and his being in the top 2% of the class, meaning that he is probably in the top 5 students. I don't know but I think those data points are good enough to get consideration to any top university. Tell me that I am wrong.

Well you are not right. You don't know if he is a genius or not, SAT is not the best measure of genius. The schools are looking at potential and they see it in him.

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Anonymous wrote:2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here.

It is not even close to a "leading Long Island high school". Over 30% farms.

More of a reason his scores are impressive. Had he been at a top LI school, maybe he would have done even better. If anything the supposed affirmative action was geographic.

He isn't poor. His family comes from Ivies.

Still does not mean they are well off. Two college professors can easily make less than 150K combined.

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Anonymous wrote:2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here.

No, not really. Those stats don't really stand out at Ivy Leagues. Not to mention, his ECs were insignifiicant and not up to par with most Ivy candidates.

Wrong. Ivy League schools are looking for creative kids and future leaders. They don't just want the kids who were chained to their desks doing SAT prep for four years, because they know these aren't the kids who are most likely to succeed in most fields. An example: my own kid, who had SATs lower than this kid's 2250 (but still over 2100, which seems to be a threshold) and who got into one of those Ivies that takes 6-7% of kids on the basis of national level achievements in an EC. And before you cry "affirmative action", my kid is a white girl from MoCo, about the least favored group (after Asians maybe) of kids.

Something about this kid's leadership ECs, creativity and work ethic (all of which you casually dismiss) stood out to admissions committees.

You are 100 percent right. Why do people refuse to see this? When all is said and done, they're looking for sparkle, not stats.

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Anonymous wrote:He was accepted BECAUSE he was a minority. If he was white, it wouldn't be newsworthy. It is reverse racism.

Reverse Racism is an oxymoron when claimed by Whites. Give it a rest. I did not realize that this was another AA student bashing thread.

Seriously. You can't be happy fir the kid?

No. They can't.

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Exactly. Affirmative action. That is why he was chosen by all and there is news coverage on it. Is he the only person to ever score this high? Nope. Is he the only one with ties to Ivies, play instruments etc... Nope. The only one to get accepted to all? Nope. Than why the big story. Hmmm. One guess?

How many students this year got accepted to all 8 Ivies?