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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good kids are getting rejected from top schools, because top schools no longer care about academic excellence as much as they care about "Diversity"
There are very few students who meet ALL of the following criteria
1) Top 1-3% of graduating class
2) 1550 in SATor 35 ACT or higher in test scores
3) National AP scholar.
4) 750 or higher in 2 Subject Tests

These are truly gifted students. All of them could easily be accommodated in the top 15 schools, many times over, but most don't get in, because top schools are obsessed with diversity.

This is a tragedy for this country in the long run, because as any economist will tell you, we are grossly misallocating some of the best resources of our academic institutions on some very questionable talent, instead of focusing them on talent that can benefit the most from them and consequently turbocharge the US economy into the next generation.

But eh. Becoming fat, dumb and careless is probably necessary for the baton to pass from the US to some other nation. That's the way history has worked[/quote]
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Top students in my neck of the woods are not getting shut out of great schools.  Just on my block alone there is a future Hopkins, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Stanford, UChicago, and Columbia graduate.  Guess what all the students are UMC Indian and Nigerians.   All of these young people are at the top of their game.  My next door neighbors' kid was accepted into 5 Ivies, and he is Asian.

Your racism and classism are showing. Maybe admission counselors knew not to admit your kid due to your bigotry.  Turn off Fox News and get over yourself!  Top universities in this country still over admit wealthy, white legacy students, however you want to use poor students and URMs as your punching bag as to why your child was rejected.

So, when things don't go your child's way you teach him or her to blame URMs and impoverished people? What a sick soul you are.  I hope you reflect on your anger and cease with the venom that you are spewing.

If the biggest obstacle in your child's life is a college rejection, then that child has lived a charmed life.  Bitterness, jealousy, and envy are unattractive traits that you should not pass on to your children.

It is a fallacy that top universities in the United States are not accepting top students.  The issue is that more top students are applying to the same selective universities.  These universities have limited spots and do not have the space or resources to accept every top student that applies.  Also, diversity means geography, language, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc.  Diversity does not equate to low performing.  If anything, most students from diverse backgrounds that I encounter are phenomenal students of the highest caliber.  Some universities want a diverse student body of top students but cannot accept them all.  Most who apply will be rejected.

It is basic math.  With limited seats and applications that triple the number of seats that a university could accept, rejections will increase. [/quote]

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