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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid had perfect or close to perfect grades in AP classes, high SAT scores, strong extracurricular activities and got rejected from all the top schools, what do you think went wrong?[/quote]

Kid was born into an Asian family could be the answer.[/quote]

This^. There is a lot of bias for Asian/SouthAsian applicants. [/quote]

And they end up at Duke instead of Harvard. [/quote]

No they end up at Caltech and UCs which don’t discriminate against Asians.  Numbers don’t lie. Caltech is 40% Asian, UCs are 30+. If Harvard gave Asians a fair shake it would probably have over 50% Asians. [/quote]

This^.[/quote]

And those numbers aren’t in any way influenced by the fact that California is 15% Asian vs 6% for the country as a whole. If anything UC and Cal Tech (36.6%) don’t overrepresent Asian to the same degree that Harvard (25%) does. [/quote]

So Jews are 2% nationwide but 20-25% at every top 20 college…..are you suggesting they are over-represented? Or does the admissions office have a harder time identifying Jews vs. Asians.  Anybody that thinks elite schools don’t have quotas is kidding themselves.[/quote]

Just to correct the record the percentage of Jewish students is not 20-25% at every top 20 school. It is at a few but not all. It’s 10% at Princeton and JHU for example. 5% at Rice. And how many do you think attend Notre Dame?

There is a long and ugly history of overestimating Jewish presence and influence in society and culture.  [/quote]

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