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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I hate to say this but at that level, your race matters a LOT. Whether you like it or not, that's how the game is played. My Asian kid with similar stats and over 1000 hours of volunteer hours got rejected by almost all of the top schools. [/quote]

[b]probably because your child had poor essays[/b]

Lackluster/poor essays are a huge reason for why so many get denied.  It's not the stats and it's not the ECs which make or break the app, it's the impression you create on the admissions officer such that they can support you

If you play the cards to their advantage, you'll get in. If you don't, it doesn't matter what you did, what scores you got, etc.[/quote]

I'm a new poster.  What do you know about this child's essay for you to presume that?  If he has perfect grades & test scores, he's probably a decent writer as well and certainly a hard worker who would have put in a lot of effort on his essay, I would think.  My dc is not a great writer and will probably not have good essays for college but you can also see that in his grades, which always have lower humanities grades.  He just really struggles in English & History classes where there are a lot of papers & essays.  This kid obviously didn't.  And really, you think a kid with perfect grades & test scores just slopped together some mediocre college essay after working so hard all his life in school?  Does that really seem likely to you?  We all know at the top schools, it's a lottery.  Instead of having a little sympathy for a family whose kid obviously worked so hard all his life, why do you immediately accuse him of submitting a poor essay?  Like you know anything about him, his essay or the admissions process...   [/quote]

[b]A kid with no life outside of schoolwork may not have interesting things to write about[/b]. Essays should show passion and personality. All top scorers are not necessarily great at creative writing. [/quote]

Just because the kid doesn't participate in formal extracurricular activities doesn't mean he doesnt have a life. [/quote]

THIS.  There's so much more to life to the usual school ECs.  [/quote]

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