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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Because her SAT scores were low. My DC had scores higher than hers and the college counselor was very clear that they made Ivy admissions a reach. DCs GPA was also higher. Funnily enough they appear to have ended up at the same college. [/quote]

where did she get in? i know she's attending michigan.

I think she could've gotten into emory - that's where a lot of northeast jews go when they don't get into penn or above.[/quote]

Sounded like she was going to Michigan.  Her approach to college admissions was pretty dumb. She blasted out apps to a bunch of reaches, which she was delusional enough to think were matches, and then a bunch of state schools in the big ten.  There are a number of great schools in between those cohorts including, as PP mentioned, Emory.  Wash U., JHU, CMU, Georgetown, Tufts, BC, ND all might have been possibilities but her overall strategy was flawed.[/quote]

I have two asian cousins from california with a similar profile to her and they didn't make her mistake - they applied to 30 schools a piece and ended up getting into the emory, jhu, cmu, washu, vandy tier. They were frozen out of all ivies.

She just had a bad application strategy. [/quote]

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