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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to our admissions counselor, last year Cornell only accepted 11% of the kids that applied with a 1600 SAT. Let that sink in. Once you reach a certain threshold, colleges don't care because they know you can do the work and be successful. The competition for CS and Engineering is fierce at every school and demand is extremely high. I know my Asian friends are disappointed when their kids are in fact rejected from these highly rejective schools. But, Asian students are over represented at all the T30 schools so, looking at the numbers, there just isn't any race based conspiracy against Asian students. [/quote]

Asian American parent here. Too many kids just seem similar to one another. I worry for my tennis playing smart boys. That is the only thing they are really good at and love. At the same time, they most likely won’t be D1 recruits.[/quote]

I am so sorry.  My kid had a similar situation with violin. But, she stuck with it because it was her passion,  and that showed.  Are there any other interests your boys might develop that would add something different? Art? Theatre? Service (non tutoring)? Mine also pursued other types of activities,  but always in areas that genuinely interested her. She chose schools for fit and tailored apps to those schools and was accepted to several top schools. [b] Or, you can go all out on competitions. One Asian boy did that and got lots of top admits. I personally think this isn't healthy though[/b].[/quote]

The Asian kid in the bold will fit in nicely with others - Asians or non-Asians - at top schools in the US  There's nearly no one at top schools who aren't like this, unless you are talking about diversity admits such as legacies, athletes, or development donors. [/quote]

I am the PP who wrote that. Mine isn't like this. I mean, she is a smidge, but not to this level. Every time this kid won another thing, I could see her tense up, and I was like, hey, you did plenty. Do you want your life to be like that? She got into several Ivies/T10, and the people she's met who were admitted exhibit a range of competitive achievement (not linked to URM or sports, but isn't sports recruit an achievement on its own anyway?). All this to say, that what you are saying is not really accurate.[/quote]

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