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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be even more blunt

This isn't Korea or China or India

The score on your test isn't what matters most here

Harvard could take all perfect SAT scores if they wanted.... but they don't

HOLISTIC Admissions[/quote]

This. DC goes to a TJ feeder MS that is half Asian, and even in 7-8th grade, it is all about the STEM grades/TJ test score, at the expense of non-academic extracurriculars and just about everything else (including sleep). And there are lots of kids who are not pursuing their own interests or passions (even academic ones) but checking whatever box they need to for TJ admissions. There is something depressing about a school where everyone is the same. Not the same skin color either.  But where 400 kids show up to MathCounts, TSA or TARC tryouts, (and only a tiny fraction actually like math or science) and nobody wants to be in the school play. Where music, art, wring and cross- disciplinary thinking do not have a lot of value.  Colleges should have lots of different types of people, and I want my child to have a well rounded college experience. I think the Asian kid who plays an instrument at a high level and loves literature should have the same chance of getting into Harvard as the white kid with the same qualifications. But many, many Asian kids have perfectly mastered the answers to the test, but have little else to contribute.  No college needs thousands of clones.  [/quote]

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