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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone with a PhD from the Ivy League who taught the undergrads, I can assure all the people saying this guy is a dime a dozen are mistaken. There are so many morons who slip through the cracks of the Ivy League admissions system that it's shocking. I think about 10% of folks in classes I taught probably shouldn't have been in college at all. Others were ver mid, reminiscent of a typical state school student. The fact this guy got rejected by so many schools is entirely indicative of anti Asian racism imo[/quote]

So, you are probably right on one level, however, you have to agree that the most qualified kids in the country...like the top 10% of the top 1% are also attending these schools.  Go look at where the Coca Cola scholars are attending college...Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, etc.  Massively concentrated in top 10 schools.

Go look at where the Regeneron finalists are going to college.  Harvard, Stanford, MIT.  Again, massively concentrated in Top 10 schools.  BTW, many Asian kids.

And you know what?  They will benefit from going to college with the kids of wealthy students who are massively over-represented at these schools.  On one level, you can decry how colleges assemble these classes...but on another level, all of this makes a ton of logic.  You combine extreme talent, and extreme wealth...and you usually produce incredible outcomes.  In fact, I bet the Asian Regeneron finalists and winners are ecstatic that perhaps they will go to college with the children of Musk, Bezos, etc.  This is the way the world works.

My own UMC White kid attending a Top 5 in the fall already is aware of the children or grandchildren of three people on the Forbes 100 list that will be in his class, with one in his major.  He is not an idiot...you work your ass off to get into these colleges, but now leverage the college and the network.

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