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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This year an Asian-American boy who was a USAMO camper was rejected by not only MIT but also CMU.  Most DCUMs don’t know what USAMO camp is.  It’s a pool of 250-300 best math students in the US competing for a spot on the USA Math Olympic Team.  There are only 6 students on the national team. Then they compete against other countries in the Intl Math Olympiad.  In the past, making USAMO cam was a guaranteed ticket to MIT.  Not anymore.  Especially if you are an Asian boy. [/quote]

No student is owed admission to any college, regardless of their accomplishments.[/quote]

No student should be owed admission to any college because of their race either. [/quote]

And that does NOT happen.  It is Harvards choice to build their freshman class the way they want.  If you want a freshman class of all Asians, then I suggest you head to India or China and you can be happy.  But if Harvard wants to have more Hispanics/Blacks/etc to bring more diversity to their campus, so be it.

What most of you do not care to appreciate is that the lower income (many times non-white/non-asian) student who achieves a 1500 and takes 3 APs because that is all their HS offers and overcomes being in a K-12 education system where most in their schools do not make it/even graduate let alone go to a 4 year college, is likely just as smart if not smarter than the privileged white/asian/whatever race student who grew up in a 1% household and never had any wants let alone any "needs".  The first kid has had to overcome so much to get to that "1500" so yes it is impressive and top schools want kids like that who will go far.  They do not just want to be a repository for elite/1%ers.  [/quote]

Harvard has always prided itself in having a diverse class, in every respect. Every state, every major, every race/ethnicity, many countries etc. And now does have a heavy focus on first-gen opportunities. Zero wrong with any of this. [/quote]

Agree.  But some people think that the status quo is supposedly "keeping their kid out". Colleges simply can not have all of one kind in their schools.  Plain and simple.  There are too many people. Period.  We are becoming China. [/quote]

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