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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article in people about stanley

https://people.com/high-school-graduate-rejected-over-dozen-colleges-lands-jobs-at-google-8364398[/quote]

Penalty for being Asian american?[/quote]

Even Stanley‘s father acknowledges that there’s not enough facts to determine racism. In the article he claims that universities are turning down over qualified students, and he wants to know why.[/quote]
DP, but of course he wouldn’t claim it publicly without concrete evidence (yet). But it’s more than likely the case.[/quote]

The only evidence that would support their claim is if a college used racial quotas-- otherwise, they would have to prove that Stanley was singled out amongst his Asian peers at his high school.[/quote]
It’s not that hard to do. Just compare a student from the same high school but of a different race. If that student got into a UC but with less impressive credentials(whatever UC defines), we’ll have a conversation of racial discrimination.[/quote]

UCs do NOT use SAT/ACT scores.  So basically it's gpa (he was only 45-50th in his class), ECs, essays and recommendations. Oh, and the acceptance rates at those schools for CS are single digits, even 2-3% for all except UC Davis (it's ~9-10%).  [/quote]
He is arguably brilliant though.  Do you not see the problem here?[/quote]

What problem?  That he's brilliant and he along with thousand of other brilliant/highly qualified students applied to programs that only accept 2-3% of applicants.  Then he and majority of those applicants (let's say 95%+) got rejected as well.   There's a reason it is damn near impossible for anyone to gain admissions to the 18 CS programs he applied to---and it's because majority who apply are all really smart, really motivated, have really excellent ECs/started their own company coding/etc.  They are not taking kids who got 1200 and a 3.5 gpa into the CS programs.  It simply is not happening at those schools.

Have you met those kids admitted to these programs?  They are also brilliant.  Who knows ultimately how the AO make a decision, but we do know that after GPA (and he's NOT in the top of his HS class---part of the problem with attending an elite HS, everyone is elite) it comes down to essays, teacher recommendations, and your ECs.  We haven't read his essays or recommendations.  Haven;'t read those for the other applications, but with such fine differences, it is truly possible that he didn't sell himself enough with the essays or his teachers didn't rave about him as much as other recommenders did.  
The problem is he applied to 18 extremely selective schools, got into 2 and is complaining that he didn't get into more.  [/quote]

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