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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me there isn't racial bias / discrimination.

"Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton"

Link to article below.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/student-2-published-books-4-182005756.html

This kid has better accolades than all of us and 80% of America and still got shafted.[/quote]

Yield protection. And they weren't wrong, were they?  
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The problem is the process, not the result, for this kid.  And also for AAP admissions, generally. (I don't understand what they're doing now with their new process, and I don't think anyone else does etiher.[/i][b]  Maybe it's not much changed, maybe it's totally different. I don't know.)  [/quote]

They’re leaving it up to the elementary schools to determine their own criteria with absolutely no guidance. The school committees are quite literally making up their own criteria on the fly. It’s an absolute mess. [/quote]

The only way to game the system now is to be active in the PTA and buddies with the school principal[/quote]

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