Girl with 1370 SAT gets in to 5 Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

No, you don't get it. No one is focused on the SAT as the only point. The application as presented in the article is not compelling and if the same exact stats were posted here, 100% would say this kid is not getting into an ivy, let alone no rejections from any ivies.

What in this app. is compelling and interesting besides URM status? I'm talking so compelling and so interesting that it is beyond what is expected or typically seen.

she tied her story together.
And if she was majoring in something undersubscribed that matters.
Exactly the formula my test optional Asian daughter used. And it worked.

If your child got into 5 ivies and waitlisted at 2 others with your secret sauce, wow. All ears. I assume that did not happen

Mine did.
No ivies but multiple T20. WL ivies.

So, zero, not 5?

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Anonymous wrote:Just read the piece, and she seems like a completely wonderful person. Did you see that the Yale admissions
Officer hugger her because her essay left such a deep impression?

This is admissions working the right way. This is the kind of person who really should be given the best educational opportunities.

1370 is one data point, and it's also a respectable score, when balanced by all the other things she is doing with her time. She's a star.

She wrote about the Black community. She's not stupid. She made sure to let admissions know her race. Played the game well.

Every activity of hers was tailored towards showcasing her involvement in the black community. How many more years is this community going to be given preferential treatment in college apps?

My kid did the same except every activity showcased kid’s gender. Is that an issue for you?

If she had a 1370 and got into five Ivies, yea. If she did it after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action and used it to circumvent the ruling, yea.

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

No, you don't get it. No one is focused on the SAT as the only point. The application as presented in the article is not compelling and if the same exact stats were posted here, 100% would say this kid is not getting into an ivy, let alone no rejections from any ivies.

What in this app. is compelling and interesting besides URM status? I'm talking so compelling and so interesting that it is beyond what is expected or typically seen.

she tied her story together.
And if she was majoring in something undersubscribed that matters.
Exactly the formula my test optional Asian daughter used. And it worked.

If your child got into 5 ivies and waitlisted at 2 others with your secret sauce, wow. All ears. I assume that did not happen

Mine did.
No ivies but multiple T20. WL ivies.

So, zero, not 5?

Yea, she’s not URM.

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Anonymous wrote:These are TO schools, I don’t understand why OP brings 1370 into the title. It’s irrelevant!

Because there are test required schools.
It's very relevant.

You seem to assume it’s the job of these universities to collect the highest achievers. I disagree. That’s too much of what they do already. Their job should be to make and mold them, not collect them.

It actually is the job of these schools to collect the highest achievers, and that's certainly what they've done in accepting this young woman. She is a rock star.

Test required means just that: test scores required. It does not mean: we only accept students above a certain score. That 1370 indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies at Yale and everywhere else she applied. And all her other accomplishments indicate she will thrive there and be a big contributor to her college community.

Rock star? What a joke.

She went to a large public school with a large set of AP offerings, and took 6 APs. And a 1370 SAT. Mediocre academics.

No wonder Harvard requires Remedial Math, and the country is in the toilet producing such braggart rah rah rah self congratulatory kids.

Hope Trump cuts the funding for these Ivy Leagues with such blatantly discriminatory admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:These are TO schools, I don’t understand why OP brings 1370 into the title. It’s irrelevant!

Because there are test required schools.
It's very relevant.

You seem to assume it’s the job of these universities to collect the highest achievers. I disagree. That’s too much of what they do already. Their job should be to make and mold them, not collect them.

It actually is the job of these schools to collect the highest achievers, and that's certainly what they've done in accepting this young woman. She is a rock star.

Test required means just that: test scores required. It does not mean: we only accept students above a certain score. That 1370 indicates that she is perfectly capable of doing well in her studies at Yale and everywhere else she applied. And all her other accomplishments indicate she will thrive there and be a big contributor to her college community.

Rock star? What a joke.

She went to a large public school with a large set of AP offerings, and took 6 APs. And a 1370 SAT. Mediocre academics.

No wonder Harvard requires Remedial Math, and the country is in the toilet producing such braggart rah rah rah self congratulatory kids.

Hope Trump cuts the funding for these Ivy Leagues with such blatantly discriminatory admissions.

lol. So many JMU parents here who wouldn’t know an Ivy caliber student if he hit them over the head with a lacrosse stick. They really think this girl was something special. Get out more!

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

I know many interesting white or Asian kids with higher stats who had nowhere near that kind of success. People who overcame disabilities, took care of sick family, did advanced college level academic work on their own for fun, etc. I know one kid who did all 3, in fact, plus the higher stats. I don’t think you understand the extent to which race sways decisions, so you are struggling to understand the extent to which people want this in the past.

No.

You just don't want URMs, and blacks specifically, to get the same opportunities.
College admissions are subjective. Half the kids admitted are institutional priorities. Most are white. But no complaints on DCUM.

A post saying many very interesting white and Asian kids are rejected with higher stats from Ivies tells you the author doesn’t want Blacks to get “the same” opportunities? Really? Wow. “Same opportunities” means deciding on merit, not skin color. Otherwise, why stop at colleges? Why not use affirmative action for all hiring and elections? SCOTUS already ruled on this. The issue now is whether they need to weigh in again on things like essays being used to achieve the same effects as before. I actually hope they don’t, but people like you make it more likely they will.

What will Yale do without students without horrible test scores and inflated HS GPAs?!?

I do find it funny how many posters say the SAT is middle school level. Yet the applicant in question could not even do well on an exam testing simple material.

If you think that a 1370 isn’t “doing well” on the SAT, I hate to be the one to tell you that a 1370 would be well out of reach for you on your best day.

It's well for average schools but not at all for top schools in the US.

It’s better than 90% of everyone else taking the test, ya dolt.

Top schools don’t dip to the 90th percentile unless it is a URM or an applicant from a good family that can donate seven figures. It’s not good enough, at all.

Top schools selection criteria have nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not a student who scores above the 90th percentile can be considered to have done well on the test. It’s objectively a good score.

Yes, it does. If MIT and Yale thought a 1370 was a good enough score there’d be tons of whites and Asians with those scores walking around campus.

There are whites and Asians walking around with those scores.

How many do you know of who got into 5 Ivies with no “hooks”? (Not a fan of any hooks btw!)