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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a great article on how to teach your child to have no competitive spirit and be happy with what meager rations they are given.

Kids this bright are quite aware of who is getting into the schools they and their friends have been targeting for 2 or 3 years and they can see the reverse discrimination and unfairness at play. They are not 2 year olds looking for moms reaction on this.

Maybe responsible parenting is acknowledging that while top schools are a stretch for everyone, it IS unfair that qualities outside of their control and baseless to achievement are getting prioritized over what should matter and thus impacting your child's results.  It's not fair and there is nothing we can do.

But that they will still go to a good school and because they are brilliant they will make the best of it. The world will level out once they get past the insanity/bubble of college admissions because in the real world results matter more than checking a demographic box and brilliance and hard work will pay off, regardless of liberal agendas.

Companies focus on things that matter and so while this phase of life will illustrate to them the unfairness of racism of discrimination, the good news is that they will be past this BS in four years.

That is the article I would write.[/quote]
WELL SAID!!![/quote]

You all have *no* idea how competitive college admissions works. [b]That your kid has a perfect GPA, or a perfect SAT/ACT, makes them indistinguishable from literally 10X the number of applicants that the particular competitive school can admit.[/b]  And you all think that the answer is to stack up a variety of variegated ECs that tell no coherent story except that they work really, really hard to rack up credentials.  And every parent of that kid is telling them that it's racism that didn't get them admitted.

If you want your DC to get considered seriously in the admissions sweepstakes,[b] you might consider (i) ways in which your child is different from thousands of high-stat, generally applicable ECs, from this area; and (ii) how their essay and ECs tells a persuasive and evidence-backed story about why they want to attend that particular school for that particular major.[/b]  You parents complaining over and over about racial discrimination have no, no idea how the top schools admit students.  You want your Asian kid to get admitted to a top school?  Have them apply as an English major, after years of summer writing programs, creative writing awards, volunteering to help disavantaged students with writing, etc.  Plus an amazing essay about that experience.

And, you have no idea what other kids' application packages look like.  [/quote]

No one is disputing the bolded part. What we are complaining about, if you can please keep up, is that skin color is being used as a differentiator, such that all of a sudden, a specific skin color allows for less than perfect GPA, less than perfect SAT/ACT, and otherwise average essays and ECs. No one is claiming that they are entitled to attend a certain school, or that a school must accept all students that meet a certain objective entrance bar. What we are complaining about, is that race is being used to admit less-well-performing students over better-performing students. [/quote]

Performing how?[/quote]

Performance is not certainly tied to one's skin color.  
That's how.
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Do you really think a slightly lower GPA or test score impacts someone’s ability to do well at an elite school?  There is a range.  They don’t just take the highest scoring 2000 kids or whatever (they couldn’t because it would be a tie).  There is a range, then they look at other factors:  recs, ECs, etc.  Diversity is one thing they look at.  I know you don’t respect the idea of diversity but they are open that they consider it.  No one is hiding the ball.  The kids that are admitted are within the basic range.  Just like they may take a ballerina over a musician or whatever, they also want diversity of background (race, location, SES, etc).  I know you understand this.  I’m sure you are intelligent.  You just don’t agree with the approach and you believe if you continue to make the same arguments over and over on DCUM it will change, but it won’t.  They use holistic admissions and have been very clear about that.  There are plenty of schools that don’t.  If you don’t agree with the basic philosophy of the school, why choose it?  If you want your kid to go there despite the philosophy, play the game.  Find a way to get your kid to stand out and have their application seem different.  Stop using the “formula” that no longer works.[/quote]

Formula is simple. Don't be racist.  
Just like you said the ones are getting are all equally qualified, so then diveristy will be achived natually.

by the way, I guess all state schools are shitty in terms of diversity (loctaion) by your standard 
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