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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charlie, my kid will see you in UMD. Similar stats...+ he is Asian American male like you too.   Congrats on getting UMD because all of you high stat Asian-American kids have made it a powerhouse where STEM majors are concerned.  Will you be super successful in life? Absolutely.

Both of you keep safe and remember this is the beginning of your life and yes, the racism inherent in college and work place was not just something your parents faced. USA is not even pretending to be egalitarian and fair.  [/quote]

Umd is a great education but that is ridiculous to say that this student could not have had many more acceptances if his application list had been more realistic.[/quote]

If he is going for CS or Engineering...he made the right choice to go in-state (I am guessing here that he is an MD student) because how highly ranked UMD is for these two majors.   Try for Ivies and know that it is a crapshoot and then also apply in-state for MD and get a free education.  Well done, Charlie!

And no point in doing majors that does not get you a high paying job.  He maximized his education dollars.  Good for him. And while this was put in tiktok by him, I can bet that he was very aware that while he was an Ivy-level  kid who was going to UMD, he was always going to be successful.  Regardless of if Ivy rejected him because of racism, this kid is going to UMD with the best credentials. That is a mark of the candidate.  I say this is Harvard's loss.

I also think that it is about time that the Asian-Americans realize the kinds of racism they are facing in USA. This is a valuable lesson for Charlie and my kid.  Watch, experience and learn the reality of this country and society.  [/quote]

Quit with the whining already. All those Ivies are private schools. You are not owed a place there. [/quote]

And the world does not only spin for STEM majors with 1590s.[/quote]

The Ivies are private schools that get [b]billions[/b] of dollars in tax-payer funded federal research money every year and enjoy non-profit tax-free status on their donations and investments.

If they are privates and are going to discriminate based on legacy status etc., why the hell should they receive tax-payer funded research money to hire top professors and gain worldwide prestige, just to turn around and give easy admittance to wealthy donors? It's a literal handout to the wealthy and a golden ticket to a lifetime of career/social pedigree for their offsprings.

Want to admit students based on how much their parents have donated, or legacy status? Fine, you don't receive any tax-payer funded research money - that goes directly only to schools that don't discriminate based on such non-academic social class system factors - Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Hopkins, etc.

As for the world not revolving around STEM majors with 1590s, believe it or not - universities have these things called "majors". Admittance to STEM major [i]should[/i] revolve around the STEM merits of the candidate, not how wealthy their parents are or how good they are at horse riding. 
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The entire admissions process is about discrimination.  I don't mean that as a criticism - in making admissions decisions, schools discriminate against one set of criteria in favor of another.  You favor *only* permitting discrimination in favor of academic credentials - SATs, GPA, etc. - and no other factors.  That's fine I guess, but schools go for a well-rounded student body.  And they also are businesses, even though they are nonprofits, so admitting students based on name recognition and financial resources isn't exactly unreasonable either.

All you are doing is favoring one type of discrimination over al others - really, to the exclusion of all others.  While you think it's a logical type of discrimination, you seem blind to the possibility that others make different determinations, which are just as reasonable, though for different reasons.

FWIW, I didn't attend an Ivy League school, my kids won't, and I don't have a personal stake in this discussion.  [/quote]

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