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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS has much higher SAT but otherwise similar, rejected by ivies, maybe being an asian played a factor. So congratulations to you! Life isn’t always fair but this is the work we live in. [/quote]

Same here.  My DS stats were much higher with more APs. 3 sports. 2 languages .  Rejected to all Ivy schools. ( Mixed asian) [/quote]
That’s incredible. The system works against Asians (I am not Asian BTW) [/quote]

When acceptance rates are below 7%, it's a crapshoot for everyone.  95% of applicants have extremely high stats (tests, gpa, ec, essays, recommendations).  These schools could fill 20 freshman classes with highly qualified students. So it's a lottery.  It's NOT the system working against Asians (or any other group).  
Colleges want to put together a nice mix of students---from both socio-economic backgrounds, to race, to majors, to location, M/F, ECs, etc.  I wouldn't want my kid to attend a school with all 1600/4.0UW/3 sports Captains/etc.  I want diversity at many levels so my kid can grow and learn from the people they are surrounded with for 4 years.  Take a look around you at your job----highly doubt you work with everyone who went to an Ivy or similar elite school (unless you are in finance in NYC and all went to an elite MBA program---that tends to be the exception).   Good chance many of the best people on your team at work went to your local state univ or a smaller, not well know college.

Smart kids will succeed everywhere if they are hard workers---that's what it's all about.  But that won't happen if they spend freshman year moping around upset that they "deserved" to be at an Ivy and had to settle for wherever they are.  I want hard workers on my team.  I don't really care where they went to college.  I care about what they did with their time in college [/quote]

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