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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't someone post this kid got into UTexas Austin? That is a top 30 school and, with almost 4000 colleges in the USA, in the top 1%

How is that a problem?[/quote]

He got into UT Austin and UMD College Park for CS. Both are top-caliber CS programs - Sergey Brin came out of UMD CS.

But he thinks he deserves to have been accepted into more programs, particularly the public universities in California. He and his dad are calling for an independent audit of college admissions using a random sample of accepted applications. One issue they want to know more about is that he may have been yield protected by schools, particularly the public universities.

Interesting wrinkle that I didn't know - his dad works at Google. So the kid definitely has an advantage over pretty much any other kid: he likely had insight to the requirements of the technical interview and got prepped for that by his dad. I'm not saying the kid couldn't do the work, but I guarantee he was taught-to-the-test by his father.

Folks should really watch the long interview with his dad. They have a soft agenda of attacking universities. Dad is already talking about suing universities if they don't voluntarily get the information they are seeking from the schools.

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

And colleges are allowed to "yield protect".  The ultimate goal for the college is to have everyone they offer a place accept.  So if they think you are not serious about attending, they might accept someone else with similar stats who shows more interest.

Fact is he applied to 18 extremely selective universities (for CS admissions 17 are under 5% acceptance rates, many are 2-3%) and got into TWO.  That's a win.  He's not entitled to admission at all 18.  Majority of those applying for CS have a similar CV yet most get rejected[/quote]

The key issue is did the color of his skin negatively impact him, even though he is a minority.

"According to research from Princeton University, students who identify as Asian must score 140 points higher on the SAT than whites and 450 points higher than Blacks to have the same chance of admission to private colleges."

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