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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone feel sorry for this guy.  He was dumb enough only to apply to Penn State and UMD and Ivies and equivalents, except CMU.  Where were the applications to schools like Emory, Wash U, Northwestern, and Wesleyan and other SLACs.  We are not a society based on test scores alone, which (ironically) is a criticism of many of the Asian education systems.[/quote]

I agree (other than calling the kid dumb—he’s smart but naive) but I don’t see any irony. There is a subset of Asian and other posters on DCUM, and a much larger subset of primarily (but definitely not exclusively)  Asian people in the DMV, that believes top colleges should be accepting kids based only on grades and test scores.  There is nothing you can say to make this subset understand that private universities in the US apply acceptance criteria that do not exclusively focus on grades and test scores.

The vast majority of Asian and non-Asian parents in this area understand that super-high stats kids are not a shoo-in for ivies if they don’t have other things the schools value, but the rest, presumably like the OP who started this silly thread, don’t. [/quote]

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