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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great.  But none of his ECs really stands out. [b] His SATs aren't unusual for black kids at the Ivy League either. [/b] His class rank is excellent, but if anything a little low for an Ivy.

In fact, he seems unusual in that he is a throwback to the old days when colleges were looking for the "well-rounded" candidate as supposed to the new focus on "passion."[/quote]

Not true at all.  These scores are very high for black kids, even at an Ivy.  From an article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:

"If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation’s most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test."

While I'm sure there's a good bit of overlap, there's probably ~200-250 AA kids with scores above 1500, and how many of them are coming from a public school with 30% farms?

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From another article in JBHE it says that only 72 blacks acored above 1500 in 2003 on the SAT I Math and Verbal (combined) test. Combine that with the excellent grades, AP scores etc, and this kid had to be one of the top AA candidates in the entire US. Not surprising he got in everywhere.[/quote]

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