He's all-Ivy -- accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges...
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Anonymous
Can we assume that your kid also had the same ECs? Also, your kid is competing against other white kids, and maybe didn't meet their standards. Ever think of that? By the way, 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 kid could've gotten in on a music or sports scholarship. What's your kid's excuse? |
Anonymous
Easy to say you never had a chance of winning when you never even played the game. Were you the one who told her not to apply because of her race? |
Anonymous
Why are you comparing thousands of Cubans living together and keeping their Cuban-Spanish accent to a young man from Ghana whose parents probably don't live in a neighborhood with thousands of countrymen around them whose speaking style would greatly influence the children. Yes, Cubanos, you all speak whatever Spanglish you want to speak, but most children of immigrants won't have an accent. |
Anonymous
Great parenting job mom/dad!  While you’re poisoning your daughter’s mind by teaching her to see her “whiteness” as a handicap, please make sure she also knows that she lost out to white legacies, and other similarly situated whites with better extracurriculars and geographic diversity.
Unlike your daughter, this kid had to overcome negative racial stereotyping, low expectations from teachers (not every teacher, but trust me, there was at least one), stereotype threat, etc. However, unlike you, he did not cast himself as the victim. Because of what he had to deal with (“the soft bigotry of low expectations” from many people like you), he is actually more qualified for admission to those universities than white students with similar numbers. Your daughter may not have been admitted to any Ivy League school…if she had applied, but not because she’s white. You sound like an unhappy and bitter person. I hope that you find peace. |
Anonymous
I'm white and I don't have a bit of trouble with black kids getting in with lower SAT scores. Admissions offices consider the whole package. SAT scores are only one piece of the information they receive. SAT scores under predict the performance of black kids by quite a bit. On average, black kids do better in college than their SAT scores would suggest. That may occur for a couple of reasons: 1) Black kids on the whole are less prepared for the SAT. 2) They face psychological barriers when taking it. Expectations matter a tremendous amount. When a person is told that members of her demographic group do well on a test, they do better. When a person is told that members of his/her demographic group does poorly, they do worse. It's called stereotype threat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat 3) The test is biased against black kids. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/sat Because there is evidence that the test and testing situation are biased and the test scores for black kids underpredict their performance, lessening the emphasis on SAT scores for black kids is completely fair. Score ranges are flexible for all sorts of groups, including legacies and children of very important people and celebrities and student athletes. Why aren't you railing against the admissions advantage those groups have? BTW, even if that kid isn't more qualified than your snowflake, he is a more interesting student to have on campus. He has an interesting story (child of immigrant parents from Ghana). Your snowflake sounds like a dime-a-dozen bright kid from a high SES group in an overrepresented area of the county. It always helps to have something that makes you stand out. |
Anonymous
I'm pretty sure even if your kid had applied he/she wasn't next in line to get one of the spots. So I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Probably a long list of white, black and Asian kids ahead of yours. 
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Anonymous
In view of the behaviour of Americans and her history what makes you think any of the schools is a slam dunk for this kid with his name? I'd hire him in my investment firm as a trader. He is no fool to put all his eggs in one basket. His last name is not Bush. You, on the other hand, would not handle my 7 figure portfolio! |
Anonymous
Nonsense. What would you advise you're own child to do? Apply to one school! Idiocy, indeed given the 3-6% acceptance rates. |
Anonymous
Why should you when his SAT scores were much higher than Bush and many other admitted Whites, Asians, Hispanics an other Blacks? |
Anonymous
No, you are a fool because if you wanted a Black kid you should have married a Black spouse. Q.E.D. |
Anonymous
Why the surprise? If the parents were Afrikaner or from northern Europe (as trained doctors) there are far less barriers immigrating to the US and joining the US physician ranks instead of driving a cab. There are many doctors from the Southern global hemisphere (as opposed to Northern hemisphere) who become nurses or other allied health personel because of barriers to entry. |
Anonymous
Why the surprise? If the parents were Afrikaner from South Africa (instead of West Africa) or from northern Europe (as trained doctors) there are far less barriers immigrating to the US and joining the US physician ranks instead of driving a cab. There are many doctors from the Southern global hemisphere (as opposed to Northern hemisphere) who become nurses or other allied health personel because of barriers to entry. |
Anonymous
What kind of kids do you mean? Many in my neighborhood who are USAMO winners, NMF, GPA > 4.0, multiple APs are Jewish, Asian and White applying the HYP, MIT, Stanford, Amherst, U of C, Cal Tech. I bet you hate the kids on my street too? How many colleges would you apply to if only 5 or 6 out of 100 get accepted? Or would you simply apply to Podunk University and be done with it? |
Anonymous
Or perhaps he lives on the East coast and prefers a top notch university in NE to be relatively close to family. Who cares. I'm sure he has no input into the college choices of your children so why should you care about his choices? |
Anonymous
Correction. Only dummies fail to reach for the stars. There are many high fliers in the DC area applying to Stanford, Cal tech, MIT, HYP, Swarthmore, Amherst. I guess by your lowly standards such characters are uneducated? Sounds like you are blindly envious. |