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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t hate them because they are interesting...[/quote]
Huh. My son had very similar ECs to these kids’ acitivities of Key Club, student government, mock trail, and debate and he was derided here as being “boring” “there’s nothing that makes him stand out” “you’re gonna need a lot more than that for Ivies”...lots of comments like that. [/quote]

The silver spoon in his mouth was the tell.[/quote]
What? My kid didn’t applie to any Ivies. His grades and scores and ECs were almost identical to these kids’ but we were told he had no chance.
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The black kid with the 1540 was probably one of the top 10 AA kids in the country stats wise.  He's going to get in anywhere he applies.[/quote]

Yes, a black kid with a score of 1540 will most likely get in anywhere. About 1000 black kids scored over 1500 on the SAT.  https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/[/quote]

From the article at most 1000 blacks scored above 750 on the math.  Scoring above 750 on the verbal is harder, and scoring above 750 on both is much harder still. Combine that with being 3rd in his class.  Top 10 is too low, but  it I'll bet this kid is in the top 100.  I remember looking at ACT scores a few years back and there were less than a hundred AA kids who scored 34 or above.[/quote]

I’m AA and scored above 750 on verbal (not close in math, tho).  I wonder how many of these 1000 AA kids tend to apply to competitive colleges?  I did not apply to any mainstream competitive schools, and had no such guidance to do so—never met with guidance counselor, and parents didn’t offer much guidance at the time about specific schools.  Ended up attending an HBCU near home on a full ride; went on to obtain a PhD.  I know other kids with similarly strong stats who also attended HBCUs, some of whom turned down other strong schools to attend (e.g., Duke).

If this holds for AA kids with high SAT scores these days (i.e., that a subset won’t apply to competitive PWI  schools), I’d imagine the ones that do apply are in pretty high demand.[/quote]

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