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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All fighting over the token.[/quote]

Are you jealous because no one is fighting over your kid?[/quote]

Exactly![/quote]
No, I am jealous because my kid isn't black. Therefore, she applied to not a single Ivy, despite having higher SATs than this kid, plus other stuff that wouldn't matter, because she's white. Why bother applying?[/quote]

I'm white and I don't have a bit of trouble with black kids getting in with lower SAT scores.  Admissions offices consider the whole package. SAT scores are only one piece of the information they receive.

SAT scores under predict the performance of black kids by quite a bit. On average, black kids do better in college than their SAT scores would suggest. That may occur for a couple of reasons:

1) Black kids on the whole are less prepared for the SAT.

2) They face psychological barriers when taking it.  Expectations matter a tremendous amount. When a person is told that members of her demographic group do well on a test, they do better. When a person is told that members of his/her demographic group does poorly, they do worse. It's called stereotype threat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat

3) The test is biased against black kids.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/sat

Because there is evidence that the test and testing situation are biased and the test scores for black kids underpredict their performance, lessening the emphasis on SAT scores for black kids is completely fair.  Score ranges are flexible for all sorts of groups, including legacies and children of very important people and celebrities and student athletes. Why aren't you railing against the admissions advantage those groups have?

BTW, even if that kid isn't more qualified than your snowflake, he is a more interesting student to have on campus. He has an interesting story (child of immigrant parents from Ghana). Your snowflake sounds like a dime-a-dozen bright kid from a high SES group in an overrepresented area of the county.  It always helps to have something that makes you stand out.
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