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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]At Yale, jews represent 28% of the student body, asians represent 21%. Jews represent 2% of the US population, asians represent 5.6% So jews are represented 14x the expected rates while asians are represented under 4x the expected rate.[/quote]

How do you know this? How do you know Jews aren't 10x or 14x more likely to apply to Yale than gentile peers?

Are you alleging there's a conspiracy to admit more Jews? How would an entire university go about doing that without that collusion eventually leaking and leading to a huge whistle blower lawsuit? How does admissions know a student is Jewish?

Why did this outgoing talented Jewish student get rejected from every top 20 university?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12CDy0Xf9Ss[/youtube][/quote]

She is obnoxious. So glad she didn't get in.  MCPS weighs their grades so highly it is almost impossible to NOT get an A. They also give a full point higher in honors and AP's. There are so many over achievers out there with close to 5.0 GPA. I watched a video on Amherst admissions round table and one kid had a 6.5 GPA. What the heck is that?  Admissions weeds out ones that seem fake, put together. If she was on par with many kids in her school, didn't play sports or theater/music and only focused on grades, she is vanilla. And yes, if she was Latino, she would have been a shoe in. That part sucks but she still doesn't seem so great to me. Fake actually. [/quote]

I think she is utterly obnoxious and incredibly off-putting.  That said, I agree wholeheartedly with what she wrote.  College admissions these days really is a silly game.  She was right about the resume padding, fake charities, overseas service trips, extensive ECs, etc.  It's just all so ridiculous and is, indeed, a rat race.

But I'm also glad she didn't get in.  She's insufferable.
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