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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]He attends a high-performing high school, ranked #1 in the SF area, so many of the kids will very competitive. Enough to grab acceptances.

If he’s 10% rank out of 460 kids, there are 45 kids with better GPAs. And the vast majority of those will have impressive applications as well. Potentially better essays and recommendations as well.

Top colleges aren’t typically accepting 40-50 kids from one high school.
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True, he was competing with a lot of other accomplished kids but he applied and got rejected from a wide range of schools.  There is a problem when a really bright, accomplished kid gets rejected from multiple simply because he attends a competitive high school. The college admission system is struggling since SAT became optional and grade inflation became common.[/quote]

This is exactly why attending a private school or a magnet like TJ may [u]decrease[/u] your chance of admissions at top schools.

We can't see this kid's application or the applications of the 40-50 other kids from his HS who were ranked higher.

And we can't read too much into this one kid's experience. It sucks, but no one is entitled to admission. 
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BINGO!  [b]Nobody is entitled to admissions.[/b]  CS is a tough admit at most schools---schools with a 25% admission rate normally will often have 4-5% admit rate for CS.    UC have plenty of highly qualified in-state applications for CS at the top schools---most of the 45-50 kids ranked higher than him at his HS likely applied to those same schools.  
He had this experience because he applied to a highly rejective major at mostly highly rejective schools.  Not hard to do the math and figure out this outcome can easily happen.  He could have chosen many excellent schools that have a higher admit rate or do no restrict admission to CS/Eng/any majors.  But he didn't.  Had he it would look very different[/quote]
Sure. But it's not the excuse for school to exercise racism and cover it under that statement. This is always what the petition is about: to find out whether there were admitted students who were clearly less qualified.[/quote]

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