Where did your 33/34 ACT, 3.9 UW GPA get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My public school Class of 2019 with identical stats (but no leadership for ECs and no hooks unless full-pay counts) was accepted at Yale, Columbia, Duke, UCLA, WUSTL, Vanderbilt, and UMD; wait-listed at UChicago (applied EA-deferred then WL) and Georgetown; and rejected at Harvard, Penn, and Stanford.

Do you live in North Dakota? Because that didn't happen in the DC area.

Yes, it most likely did happen. Not sure why you think otherwise.


in 2012 our MCPS high school had very similar results. Adding 1 Penn acceptance and 1 Georgetown (although the Georgetown one was prob more related to lax, because the student could not write a competent essay.).

[Anonymous]

No one from 2012 went to GT for lax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one from 2012 went to GT for lax.

Absolutely they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting. [/quote

Stop voting for Democrats, then.
People with Brazilian heritage are Hispanic even though my family has more German and American values. But thanks to people like Obama, my kid got a leg up for no worthy reason

#warren2020

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My public school Class of 2019 with identical stats (but no leadership for ECs and no hooks unless full-pay counts) was accepted at Yale, Columbia, Duke, UCLA, WUSTL, Vanderbilt, and UMD; wait-listed at UChicago (applied EA-deferred then WL) and Georgetown; and rejected at Harvard, Penn, and Stanford.

Do you live in North Dakota? Because that didn't happen in the DC area.

+1. Or Kansas.

??? Kansas has several large metropolitan areas with elite schools and lots of money. You sound very dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

And the problem with affluent African immigrants’ kids getting in is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

And the problem with affluent African immigrants’ kids getting in is?

Using the affirmative action built for the descendants of American slaves. Seems like exactly the same thing as a 1/4 "Hispanic" using AA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

+1. And the child will live forever with the imposter syndrome. this is not right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

And the problem with affluent African immigrants’ kids getting in is?

Using the affirmative action built for the descendants of American slaves. Seems like exactly the same thing as a 1/4 "Hispanic" using AA.

Not justifying PP's actions AT ALL, but you know that's not how it works, right? That it isn't Affirmative Action and the racial balance colleges seek in admissions has nothing to do with slavery or any other slight (with a few exceptions, like Georgetown)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

And the problem with affluent African immigrants’ kids getting in is?

Using the affirmative action built for the descendants of American slaves. Seems like exactly the same thing as a 1/4 "Hispanic" using AA.

Not justifying PP's actions AT ALL, but you know that's not how it works, right? That it isn't Affirmative Action and the racial balance colleges seek in admissions has nothing to do with slavery or any other slight (with a few exceptions, like Georgetown)?

Oh, is that the new name for affirmative action, "Racial balance"? You can't put lipstick on a pig...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.8 UW/33 ACT class of 2023
Dartmouth, Bowdin, Colgate, Williams,
Waitlisted - MIT, Brown

We pulled the Hispanic card as DS's grandmother was born in Brazil,

Yeah. Because that was who this designation was meant for. Disgusting.

Is this any worse than the kids of affluent African immigrants getting in?

And the problem with affluent African immigrants’ kids getting in is?

Using the affirmative action built for the descendants of American slaves. Seems like exactly the same thing as a 1/4 "Hispanic" using AA.

Not justifying PP's actions AT ALL, but you know that's not how it works, right? That it isn't Affirmative Action and the racial balance colleges seek in admissions has nothing to do with slavery or any other slight (with a few exceptions, like Georgetown)?

Oh, is that the new name for affirmative action, "Racial balance"? You can't put lipstick on a pig...

No, it is not "the new name". It is a totally different thing. Colleges seek racial balance in their cohorts that reflects the general population. No one race is advantaged or disadvantage at any college that seeks this without regard to the cohort that applies. It has nothing to do with slavery or any type or reparation or correction.

You can disagree that they should do this, but it is critically important to understand this fact if you wish to accurately asses the racial element in modern college admissions.

[Anonymous]

All the colleges, including Harvard, don't give a shit about the true purpose of affirmative action and their ethical and moral role in making it a success for the greater good of the society. They all want easy way out to check the box and tout the number admitted. They don't care if the student and the family are wealthy and recent immigrants from Africa or the student is from a wealthy, well educated, wellconnected black family. In fact, the colleges prefer it that way so that they don't need to provide academic support services, if needed by the true affirmative action admits. If the colleges really care about it, with their filthy rich tax-exempt endowments they would adopt some school districts in poor neighborhoods and promote Pre-K to 12 schooling and after-school enrichment and use those school districts as pipelines into their Freshman admissions and to show case them as models for success.

The law should be changed for affirmative action to be available to children born only in the U.S. and parental income less than median income of U.S. households ($60K to $75K). There should be birth place and income verification before affirmative action admission is awarded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the colleges, including Harvard, don't give a shit about the true purpose of affirmative action and their ethical and moral role in making it a success for the greater good of the society. They all want easy way out to check the box and tout the number admitted. They don't care if the student and the family are wealthy and recent immigrants from Africa or the student is from a wealthy, well educated, wellconnected black family. In fact, the colleges prefer it that way so that they don't need to provide academic support services, if needed by the true affirmative action admits. If the colleges really care about it, with their filthy rich tax-exempt endowments they would adopt some school districts in poor neighborhoods and promote Pre-K to 12 schooling and after-school enrichment and use those school districts as pipelines into their Freshman admissions and to show case them as models for success.

The law should be changed for affirmative action to be available to children born only in the U.S. and parental income less than median income of U.S. households ($60K to $75K). There should be birth place and income verification before affirmative action admission is awarded.

Again: Its. Not. Affirmative. Action.

And, for the record, Harvard and other elite colleges do consider family income when admitting, and the Harvard lawsuit showed being poor was an ADVANTAGE in admissions, particularly when coming off the waitlist (where the opposite is true at most colleges which have far smaller endowments).