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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]

That’s not how the math works. [/quote]

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