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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's terrible people say rude things. Your daughter sounds amazing. Congrats on her acceptances![/quote]

I sincerely doubt that anyone says what OP is claiming, and I’ve been active in both private and public high schools. No one says that[/quote]

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Yes they do.
My friends dd was in technology focused magnet high school  and she was told by students  a lot of times how college admission will be easy for her.[/quote]

Because it IS![/quote]

But it's not necessarily so. I have plenty of friends with children who are black, biracial, Latino/a, Asian, etc. Many of these kids didn't get into their ED and they were competitive applicants, especially the STEM ones. Some finally got in RD, but the idea that "college admission will be easy" is just not always the case. [/quote]

Fair enough.. It may not be easy in the absolute sense but on a relative basis, it is FAR easier.  The pp who posted after you shared some data on this.  Look, it's a fact that intelligence and competence are evenly distributed across races (except maybe at the fringes) so your kid is absolutely as smart as the next one in his class.  However, I bet there are kids in his class who have put in a far superior application package than yours and were denied at that same school.

My son had the grades, ECs and whatever to get into Harvard, but he did not.  I'm sure a comparably qualified URM kid did.  Good for them. but let's not kid ourselves as to why that kid is at Harvard and mine is not. [/quote]

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