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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Context: To get a 4.6 at that school, kid likely had to take 16 AP courses and get a full "A" in every one of them through first semester of senior year. (And probably use some GPA-related tricks that Tiger parents daydream about from the time their kids are in diapers.) Only a handful of students in the entire school system can compete with that, and few would even be interested in trying. Anyway, I assume a troll started this thread.
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My kid was like this and did not get into UVa or VT. Also sports and lots of extracurriculars The system is broken. People don't want to hear it, but it's true. [/quote]

And my four white, UMC kids had those kinds of stats and ECs applied to UVA and three were admitted and of the three who applied to VT, two were admitted.  The system is not broken; it is just crazy competitive and thus unpredictable.[/quote]

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Same results for my white, UMC kids.  Lots and lots of sour grapes on this forum.[/quote]

What would the results have been for black kids?[/quote]

The trick to UVA is applying ED, and having a sob story essay involving "diversity" (no injury topics).  You are welcome. [/quote]

Sad, but true.[/quote]

It’s true of all schools. Every student has to have a sob story or a story about how they overcame an obstacle in life. It’s all very weird. We sent DS to a British school which is a meritocracy so we don’t have to deal with a broken system[/quote]

Oh please.  Colleges are tired of sob stories and overcoming obstacles.  They are so common they are almost all meaningless.

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I hope so, but apparently colleges still love those sob stories.[b]  I heard that rich families in China are sending their kids to McLean/Great Falls[/b] (and you can repeat that for Palo Alto—or any wealthy zip code in the country) and create sob stories and get into Harvard (or any Ivy+).  They can hide their assets and they can even claim they are first gen college—which college AO is ever going to verify their parents’ income and education in China?  Our admission system is totally broken. [/quote]

Not only that, foreign students from China and India are sent to our boarding schools for a "fifth year" to be fashioned by the private school's college counselors.  It's a huge moneymaker for the boarding school[/quote]

A lot of them do that too!

Also, all of you probably heard that Harvard admitted record % of Asians.  Harvard also said that this year a much higher % of admitted Asians were from low income or first gen families.  American college AOs are so naive.  Many of the “low income” and “first gen” probably have $$$ millions stashed overseas.  Also FYI, in the last 20 years or so many rich Chinese families enrolled their kids at international schools over there (if they couldn’t move to McLean/Langley/Palo Alto😁).  Heard of BASIS?  Their intl schools in China pay teachers over $100k per year, in a country with average income 1/4 of the US.  People who know the education system there told me.  There are 2 systems:  one for the locals and the other (intl schools) for the rich.  Probably you also heard that their domestic education is hypercompetitive.  I saw a sample math problem for elementary to middle school promotion—it involves a good amount of complicated trigonometry and algebra—to solve the trajectory problem of an artillery shell—you know they absolutely love military stuff😁.  Attending intl schools such as BASIS is actually a huge relief for rich kids.  Just remember this:  some of the rich kids who game the system and get into Ivys and top universities here probably wouldn’t even qualify as Apple’s assembly line workers over there.  And they are taking precious spots away from American kids (including Americans of Asian descent). [/quote]

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