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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This kid seems insufferable, but I kind of feel badly for him.

He has great scores and he should be very proud of himself, but if folks in his life were telling him that he was a shoo-in for an Ivy League college, then he was getting bad advice.

Very very few people can be assured of spots in the Ivy League. Kids of major (MAJOR) donors are one, kids who have won significant national prizes (ISEF Top Prize Winners) are another.  But a kid with good test scores and grades? That's a crapshoot.

Similarly, whoever told him to put this out there into the world was doing him a disservice because the coverage has focused on how at least one of the schools he was rejected from doesn't use race-based admissions at all. [/quote]

No this is not true. Private school, an African American student with a 1590 and a 4+ GPA is a shoo in one of the top 5 colleges. A South Asian or an Asian-it is a waste to even try unless you have a national level EC/awards. I am not saying right/wrong but it is ridiculous to not acknowledge that race based admissions is VERY much in action. [/quote]

I thought my black kid was a shoo in for Berkeley with a 4.0 in the most rigorous courses (AP calc BC, and AP Physics C) but did not get into Berkeley. Albeit DC was OOS but still. DC got 34 on ACT but this wasn’t submitted. [/quote]

Why wouldn't you submit that ACT score? It's pretty darn good for the profile. They might've assumed that your kid didn't do well.[/quote]

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