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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College cost is a non-issue because wealthy don't care and need based aid recipients don't care. Inly people who hurt and protest are donut hole families.[/quote]

Interesting interview of the student and the father by the local TV station ABC7 News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzHK8E-k91k[/quote]

The HS teachers can REALLY cut you off at the knees. Did this kid say something socially awkward that p****d off his teacher or counselor writing the recommendation?[/quote]

I think they were just biased against Asians.[/quote]

No, he just applied to mostly highly rejective schools, very highly rejective for his major CS.  The fact the father mentions they know a least one kid who got in nowhere and is attending CC because of it.  If you build a BALANCED list of reach, target and safeties, this does NOT happen. 
However, all of his schools were reaches for CS, and maybe the 2 he got into were high targets for CS.  So had he actually had 2-3 more targets (acceptance over 20-25%) and 3-4 true safeties (acceptance over 50-60%) he would have likely gotten into all of those schools had he demonstrated interest.  
Main reason for all the rejections is Applying to 20 schools where 18 have acceptance rates of 2-10% for Computer science does not increase your chances of acceptance.  It is still still 2-3% at those schools with 2-3% acceptance rates.  Then add in, the 40-50 kids ahead of him at his HS likely also applied to many of these schools, so those kids have "better scores/resume" and the school does not want 50+ kids majoring in Eng/CS from the same HS.  It's really not that difficult to understand.  
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I don't think the issue is that he did not apply to enough target/safeties, but that someone with his academics and achievements got shut out of all T15.

-parent of UMD CS major [/quote]

Because 75-80% of the kids applying for CS at those 18 schools also have similar academics and achievements.  When the acceptance rates for EVERY school is 10% of less (and most are 5% or less) for CS, then yes, he did not apply to enough target and safeties.  Target is a school with acceptance rate above 20-25%.  Safety is one with rate over 50%. Stanley applied to all reaches, majority of them being high reaches (single digit rates).  He had no targets or safety schools.  
He's competing with thousands of kids with resumes just like him/similar to him and 95%+ are going to get rejected. [/quote]

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