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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the OP, but for the majority of the schools the kid applied to it wasn’t racial discrimination. It’s competitive college admissions that has gotten worse in the last few years. The UCs CalPoly and Caltech didn’t even get to see his SAT score or count all of his AP classes in their GPA calculations. He wasn’t at the top of his HS class. I don’t think UWashington looks at SAT scores either. Stanford— probably an Asian penalty. MIT and Caltech, no. Don’t conveniently ignore all of his Asian classmates that were in the top 9% and did get into a UC.

Which raised the question about how a kid who designs an app,  whose computer team comes makes the semi-finals in a world wide competition and is qualified to be hired by google, gets rejected from multiple colleges? The system is flawed if a kid like this gets rejected from multiple schools.   Not sure how to fix the system, but transparency in admissions is a good place to start. Colleges could provide feedback, such as your GPA wasn't high enough, so that kids would at least know.  M[/quote]

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