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[quote=Anonymous]Long story, but I need to ramble a bit.

Years ago, a friend of mine was looking for a sperm donor. She lived in CA and had the opportunity to meet with donors and see their transcripts. She wanted a smart, tall, blond man, of N. European descent (as was she). She had to pay just to see the files of the applicants, so she just went straight to the Stanford and Berkley students. She had five candidates four from Stanford and one from Berkley. She met them and saw the scores and called me in a panic. Not one of them had consistently high scores. They were all like 85%ile or so. One of the older grad students took the old SAT and his scores were like 640 V, 690 M, and he was a physics student. Only one was a Stanford athlete, and he had a math score of 570! She was disappointed and said that there is affirmative action for white guys too. She had to pay for more files and ended up using a donor from Pomona with high scores, but red hair. :)

Anyway, I am African American and had scores slightly higher than the students that she profiled and I did not even think of applying to Stanford. My brother and sister both had very high scores like in the 97%ile and 99%ile and neither one got into the ivies for undergrad, but did for grad school. BTW, my brother had tons of extracurricular activities.

The schools are getting MANY African American applicants with high scores, and there will be more to come. This young man stood out in a different way. I have heard that good white male applicants are not as easy to find as you think. 
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