Please explain why anyone would need to send out 10+ applications

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

Troll

Not trolling but I can understand that truths about high Asian achievement makes people uncomfortable. Especially those who get in with less qualifications than Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20 years ago, if I hadn’t gotten in ED to my first choice school, I had 9 more applications filled out and ready to go. All typewritten! Applying broadly isn’t new, there’s just a lot less certainty you have a chance at any of the places you apply.

+1

[Anonymous]

It’s not usually the kid’s decision, it’s the annoying busybody parents living through their kids — as evident by many posts in this thread. Many of these parents set up common app for the child and do all the applications themselves, of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tried to encourage our girls to apply to more and their response was "only the annoying kids do that, mom." Both girls are at top schools.

Also note, shotgun blasting RDs is a waste of time and money if you're unhooked. Our daughters did flagship public as safety and ED to their dream schools. Had they not gotten in to the dream schools, they just would have gone to the public flagship.

More hubris.

“Only the annoying kids have to compare prices Mom. Bet they didn’t even go on vacation for Spring break.” You do realize that full pay is a hook ? I quess my only solace is that us poor folks don’t have to shell out 280k because a$$holes like yourself are footing the bill.

Now if you had acknowledged that you had been fortunate in life so gratefully your kids could afford full pay and therefore could take advantage of ED and not have to apply RD widely I’d say good on you.

Triggered striver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

Your poor child has no life. 20-30 applications is ridiculous. I pray you're a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

I'm white and I was a legacy at ODU. Please tell me what "influence" would have worked in my favor for getting into a competitive college?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those of us in DC don't have an instate option where we get preference. We also are looking hard for good deals on tuition for the same reason.

Dude, you get instate at all 50 states.

Wait! Is this true???!!!???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

I'm white and I was a legacy at ODU. Please tell me what "influence" would have worked in my favor for getting into a competitive college?

Ha! White males get a huge leg up over Asians. Colleges generally try to have a diversified student body and Asians have highest GPA and SAT scores. Asians need much higher grades than whites to get into the same colleges. Asian females are generally the most disadvantaged in terms of college acceptance. They have the highest scores of any demographic.

It’s baffling that white people completely dismiss all the ways they get an advantage in college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those of us in DC don't have an instate option where we get preference. We also are looking hard for good deals on tuition for the same reason.

Dude, you get instate at all 50 states.

Wait! Is this true???!!!???

DC residents may apply for a Tuition Assistance Grant, DC-TAG, which will cover up to $10,000 for any public university in the country. When the program started, that was generally enough to cover the different between in-state and out of state tuition. Not any more, but it is still a nice perk for DC residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tried to encourage our girls to apply to more and their response was "only the annoying kids do that, mom." Both girls are at top schools.

Also note, shotgun blasting RDs is a waste of time and money if you're unhooked. Our daughters did flagship public as safety and ED to their dream schools. Had they not gotten in to the dream schools, they just would have gone to the public flagship.

More hubris.

“Only the annoying kids have to compare prices Mom. Bet they didn’t even go on vacation for Spring break.” You do realize that full pay is a hook ? I quess my only solace is that us poor folks don’t have to shell out 280k because a$$holes like yourself are footing the bill.

Now if you had acknowledged that you had been fortunate in life so gratefully your kids could afford full pay and therefore could take advantage of ED and not have to apply RD widely I’d say good on you.

Triggered striver.

Perhaps or perhaps I'm going to call it as I see it. I am constantly amazed at the level of entitlement that I see by UMC-UC folks - I see it in my own family - but that's for a different post. And had you triggered this "striver" I would have posted that in reading your comment I immediately had thought of your daughters and how you had failed them. And as its obvious you lack the self awareness to see it I did think to point it out but I didn't want to twist the knife. But you failed them - they obviously lack compassion, empathy, and a good heart. They sound as shallow as you. And if I feel for anybody it is the poor bastards that are going to get stuck with your daughters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

It will.

Good luck to you and yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

Troll

Not trolling but I can understand that truths about high Asian achievement makes people uncomfortable. Especially those who get in with less qualifications than Asians.

They get in with higher test scores, NOT more qualifications. Test scores are one element in the process.

[Anonymous]

My URM DC-resident kids filled out 10-12 applications each
High stats kids are rolling the dice too, if they're aiming for top 50 places, many of which admit fewer than 20% of applicants
We have no state flagship to fall back on... :/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will apply widely because we are Asians. Since we are immigrants, we do not have legacy. We also are not White or URM, so consequently we do not have influence or affirmative action in our favor.
Top notch GPA, SATs, APs, community service and ECs are common in our community, so we just have to gamble and apply to 20-30 schools. Oh well, eventually the cream will rise to the top.

Troll

Not trolling but I can understand that truths about high Asian achievement makes people uncomfortable. Especially those who get in with less qualifications than Asians.

They get in with higher test scores, NOT more qualifications. Test scores are one element in the process.

Whites on URMs.: “It’s not fair they get in with lower test scores! I’m a victim!”

Whites on Asians: “Test scores aren’t everything. That’s why my kids with lower test scores should get in!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tried to encourage our girls to apply to more and their response was "only the annoying kids do that, mom." Both girls are at top schools.

Also note, shotgun blasting RDs is a waste of time and money if you're unhooked. Our daughters did flagship public as safety and ED to their dream schools. Had they not gotten in to the dream schools, they just would have gone to the public flagship.

The entitled apples don’t fall far from the tree.