No, they haven't. |
Maybe they get a few minority students from MoCo, but the majority are Asian and white. Look at the admits pages for tge various schools, especially Ws. Blair/Poolesville are also mostly Asian and white in T20 admits. So, how are T20s "mining" MoCo for URM admits if most of the students admitted are Asian and white? Same could be said for Fairfax and DC. The kids I know from Walls at T5? White. How many ftom Langley? Lots, and white/Asian. |
Maybe privates? At DD’s private school there are many high stat URMs. |
DP. This is all super irrelevant. If whites and Asians have better scores then their being “overrepresented” is unimportant. |
Sigh. You haven't figured out that scores are neither an indication of intelligence nor the major index for admissions. They are one data point among many. This is part of the problem -- people equate high scores with best applicant. It just isn't true and reflects a bias of cultures that put too much emphasis on scores. You really think the kid whose parents made them prep w/ Kumon and AOPS, bump up math, and prep for entrance exams to magnet schools, scored well on tests because they are "smarter" than a kid who did not have those resources and did well but didn't score as high? White and Asian kids have a higher rate of enrichment resources that URM kids. URM students have equal potential as other over represented groups, yet they are underrepresented on top campuses. Test scores are not a litmus test. |
dp.. but neither should the school look like the whole population since the applicant pool does not reflect the whole population. Also, not only do a lot of these kids have high stats, but they do also have a lot of great extra curricular activities, and they interviewed very well. Case against Harvard showed how they were biased against Asian students with their bogus "likeability" criteria. |
If you take a group of low income Asian kids and compare their scores with low income black kids, I think you know which group will have the higher stats. |
+1 Spot on. |
| My friend’s high stats daughter who is also a double legacy at HYPS was deferred from that college in ED and later rejected. She is going to UVA out of state, which was a safety in her case. Top grades from high rigor courses at a top school. Good ECs. She probably would have gotten into a different Ivy or a Top 10-15 school had she chosen her ED differently. |
Families really need to learn not to waste the ED/SCEA app on HYPS. It's pointless. |
If she were really that level, where Uva OOS was a safety, she would have gotten in RD to multiple T10s . Top unhooked kids can land at least one T10/ivy in RD. |
This logic has been thrown out with selective schools increasingly requiring standardized tests. These selective schools have cited studies that show test scores are the best indicator of college performance. And excluding test scores was detrimental to the most deserving URMs. All of this has been in the news. But it doesn’t stop entitlement hogs like the PP from propagating racist tropes against Asian and White parents who value education. Asian and white kids are not smarter but are better prepared for college admissions. Parents like the PP with cavalier attitudes to education are not prepared and console themselves and their kids by perpetuating asinine accusations. |
There are many races that "value" education. Especially those that apply to T20 colleges. Duh. |
You haven’t figured out that these same rich kids have hired collhee consultants to expertly craft their kids applications and essays? Test prep probably the easiest thing to get free access to. |
This needs to be pinned at the top. |