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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would imagine this might work at Michigan or Wisconsin or similar?[/quote]

Honestly I think people should stop talking about “stats” and look at the full application.  My Asian DD was admitted to Michigan with a 1570 and a rigorous course load with all A’s. Also to other great publics. Her essays and application package was really good, I thought.  She had a compelling narrative which is what I think is needed.  [/quote]

This could be a misread because high stat Asians probably more likely to enroll at Michigan if accepted (because more likely to be rejected from Ivy and similar). Would be fascinating if enrollment management software takes into account race as an econometric variable. Redlining all over again. If they don’t use race directly, they can triangulate it with other variables, zip code etc [/quote]

We'll see if my kid is rejected from the two ivys she applied to on Ivy day, but she is already in at one hard to get into privates (T10).  The odds of her getting in are not high, I agree.  She is not different on paper (or likely in reality) from a  bunch of other high stats Asian and non-Asian kids.  Others probably have similar or better ECs and awards than her.  I do think a difference may be that she took the application process very seriously and had every piece of data hang together to tell her story very effectively.  I obviously dont know what others do, but I was impressed by her efforts.  She looked at it like a persuasive essay project.  I do think the application matters more than people realize.

Anyway, I dont think it will do any kid any good to submit worse scores than they have.  They may want to emphasize something totally different in their application which will end up mattering more in the end.  [/quote]

Good luck to her.  It's very disheartening that a young woman of color like your daughter has to worry about being penalized in this process because of who she is.[/quote]

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