Anonymous
01/25/2022 13:57
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.
Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".
So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!
I don't follow your logic.
If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?
You're not making any sense.
The test is too easy. Too many people score so high that you cannot make any meaningful distinctions between say a 1550 and a 1600. Getting a 1600 doesn't mean you're smarter than someone who got a 1550.
They are switching to adaptive tests which will make it harder to outright cheat which will cut down some of that, and harder to 'game-prep' which will do so also. Adaptive tests mean you get increasingly harder problems as you get them correct (and easier problems if you don't) and your resulting score is a metric based on the difficulty of your test related to the number correct.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 11:31
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:I am all for it when best University in China let’s in large amount of white, Black and Spanish students
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/tsinghua-university-503146
You realize Asian Americans are US citizens right? You want to discriminate against US citizens based on race?
Anonymous
01/25/2022 11:28
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Is he that kid from RM IB who plays tennis but can also take it to the hoop?
Anonymous
01/25/2022 11:25
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Subram Subramaniam got into UVA.
I know. That was his safety.
Who is this?
Anonymous
01/25/2022 11:15
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:You can click any nationality on form. In my case my parents are both immigrants.
My first name and last name gives no clue to my nationality neither does my parents names.
For instance Juan, Sean, Jean, Johan, Sheik, Ivanko are all
John. If a male is Jean we know he is French.
All white people are immigrants. Germans, Jews, Italians, Polish, Irish suffered horrible discrimination. Large signs at HR offices and job ads said No Irish.
My parents born in another country were given American names in hopes of they move will be easier.
We are a whole country of immigrants. It is just Asians are first to decide easier to Sue.
The blacks had it ten times harder and still do
Blacks have it hard. What's happening is that elite institutions, wanting to appear woke, 'set aside' seats for the right kid of POCs (Blacks, Hispanics, etc.) but end up admitting Black kids whose parents just landed in the country a couple of decades ago, have great jobs and are middle class and wealthy spanish or south american descended kids to fill up the hispanic 'quota'. The 'real' black population of this country does not benefit as they should.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 11:12
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Subram Subramaniam got into UVA.
I know. That was his safety.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 10:33
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Subram Subramaniam got into UVA.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 09:07
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.
Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".
So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!
I don't follow your logic.
If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?
You're not making any sense.
Ok looks like you didn’t do well in SAT.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 08:36
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.
Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".
So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!
I don't follow your logic.
If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?
You're not making any sense.
The test is too easy. Too many people score so high that you cannot make any meaningful distinctions between say a 1550 and a 1600. Getting a 1600 doesn't mean you're smarter than someone who got a 1550.
I disagree with you that the test is any easier than it used to be. It's been recentered, if that's what you you mean. So yes, scores are higher than they used to be. But each percentile still distinguishes a slightly different level of achievement.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 08:17
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.
Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".
So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!
I don't follow your logic.
If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?
You're not making any sense.
The test is too easy. Too many people score so high that you cannot make any meaningful distinctions between say a 1550 and a 1600. Getting a 1600 doesn't mean you're smarter than someone who got a 1550.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 08:11
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish more parents would learn and understand that the so called rankings of colleges are fairly meaningless. Your super smart hard working kids will be more than fine wherever they go to college. They really will. There are so many, many paths to success and happiness.
Amen to that. There's so much angst surrounding admission to a college that has its median SAT in the 99th percentile (HYPSM), when the typical backups for these colleges (Michigan, Boston U, Wm. + Mary, Tulane, Villanova, GA Tech, U Maryland, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc.) all have median SATs in the 95th percentile or above. There are lots of ridiculously smart kids at all these places, and like you said, they all have "paths to success and happiness".
So if you water down standardized testing, everyone will become equally smart? Lovely logic!
I don't follow your logic.
If you test people on what 1+1 is, can you really tell who is really better at math?
You're not making any sense.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 08:09
Subject: South Asian male applicants
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am all for it when best University in China let’s in large amount of white, Black and Spanish students
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/tsinghua-university-503146
Why should we care? That university is in China for Chinese that we don't really care about. We are talking about *American universities* discriminating against *Americans* because they are not a particular color or is that too fine a point for you to grasp?
If they are Americans why suing as Asians?
Officially, they are suing as Asian Americans. By the way, China is one of the countries in Asia.
Anonymous
01/25/2022 07:58
Subject: South Asian male applicants
My half south Asian half Jewish kids will aim for slacs, like we went to, or state flagships. We’re not STEM folks, though one of our kids has an interest in science. There is a wide world out there. I want them to be prepared but happy. Many colleges can fit the bill.