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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is Asian American male from MCPS magnet school. He was rejected from many top universities with 1600, 4.8, NMS scholarship, national level EC, loads of volunteer work, published work, internships etc - for CS. We were told to apply to MIT for CS adjacent courses like Applied Math.  My kid was not interested.

There were three main reasons - 
- a lot of people apply for CS in top schools like MIT that are Asian- American  males like my kid with perfect everything. 
 MIT cannot take majority of super qualified candidates because it does not have the seats and they want diversity of race and experience.  And secondly, from his magnet school, every single person in STEM applied to MIT.  Last -  a large number of kids in the magnet program have similar profile. So the only differentiation is if they are URMs or women.

Do I mind? No.

Colleges should give the opportunities to the kids who will benefit the most.  My kid is going to be ok at UMD. And in fact the 360K that he saves gives him the leg up that going to college does not give. [/quote]

No university is going to accept 20 kids from the same high school graduating class even if they all score 1600 and are incredible in every way.

That is one of the big downsides to the really strong magnet programs. MIT gets dozens of applications every year from the same school and can pick any random one without having to look twice
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Agreed.  Happened to my DC this year, probably from same MCPS magnet. Makes me wonder if staying at local school might have produced better college results.[/quote]

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