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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is currently a sophomore at Harvard.  She has a large rooming group that includes four Asian American young women, three of whom are from California.  Really nice girls all around.  None of them were valedictorians of their high school class.  None of them had board scores as high as my daughter's, who is African American.  Each has one or two strong talents outside of the classroom in addition to being really good students (not necessarily geniuses).  My only point to this is that the mass hysteria over the idiosyncratic nature of college admissions has led people to create mythology about what it takes for someone from this group or that group to get into places like Harvard, or Yale or Stanford.  The fact of the matter is that if you were unsuccessful at getting in, it is probably because they selected someone else who looks a whole lot like you, but perhaps had something more that they were looking for.  And, that something else does not reduce down to 50 or even 100 points on your SATs.[/quote]

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