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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because you get a perfect Act score does not mean that Harvard is required to accept you.

Also, just because you are Valedictorian, Harvard is not required to accept you.

My sister was Val. of a great high school and had near perfect scores but she was not accepted. we did not read anything into this.  She is blonde and blue eyed by the way.  she went to Stanford and loved it.

There are many students who get perfect or near perfect scores on standardized tests.

This Asian applicant's "activities" were lacking.  One sport and a couple of volunteer activities is underwhelming.

The Ivies are looking for a well rounded class of students and leadership qualities.

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Asian Americans not only have to show higher SAT scores and higher GPAs, they also have to have more leadership positions, ECs, volunteer activities, sport participation, original research or other extraordinary talents compared all other races. The same old argument is to paint Asian Americans as only having high scores and that is not true. Stop stereotyping. If it's not ok to say blacks are lacking intelligence or Hispanics are lazy, it's equally offensive to continuously say Asians only offer high test scores and lack in all other areas.

In addition, people keep saying there are many people (e.g. ABC college could fill its entering class several times with students with perfect SAT scores etc.) with perfect SAT scores but actually only about 800 to 900 out of several millions achieve perfect scores on SAT each year. [/quote]

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