Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also a lot of elite private schools kids have private admission counseling to hold their hands through whole admissions process as early as from middle school.

So do public school suburban Asian kids. In fact most of these services say being at a private HS is a disadvantage

Private school has big advantage, because college know you most likely full pay, a big portion of admitted need to be full pay so college can give aid to low income students.

*some* elite high schools have an edge. Not all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT score between 1520 and 1560, a GPA above 3.975, 7–8 AP exams all scored 5, with some involvement in sports and music, some community service, and some research/paper work.

Forget top 30 colleges and focus on lower ranking privates or state schools.

lol?
what?
yeah, no. my asian kid is at an ivy with lower stats.

Lucky one, your kid must be an outlier.

My kid with much strong stats, 1590,13APs, multiple leaderships, numerous state awards, national award but not top, volunteer award plus law firm part-time job, rejected by all Ivies applied , bottom ones didn't apply.
End up in top lac.

Nope - just private HS.
Non-stem and non-stereotypical so really stood out.

Anonymous wrote:At our semi-rural HS, a white girl with this exact profile except a lower SAT score, got into Yale.

Geography matters a lot.

No, it's hidden quota, top colleges can't take too many Asians, it needs to be balanced. This girl will be in too if in prestige private or mediocre/bottom public.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also a lot of elite private schools kids have private admission counseling to hold their hands through whole admissions process as early as from middle school.

So do public school suburban Asian kids. In fact most of these services say being at a private HS is a disadvantage

Private school has big advantage, because college know you most likely full pay, a big portion of admitted need to be full pay so college can give aid to low income students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT score between 1520 and 1560, a GPA above 3.975, 7–8 AP exams all scored 5, with some involvement in sports and music, some community service, and some research/paper work.

Forget top 30 colleges and focus on lower ranking privates or state schools.

lol?
what?
yeah, no. my asian kid is at an ivy with lower stats.

Lucky one, your kid must be an outlier.

My kid with much strong stats, 1590,13APs, multiple leaderships, numerous state awards, national award but not top, volunteer award plus law firm part-time job, rejected by all Ivies applied , bottom ones didn't apply.
End up in top lac.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why anyone would want anonymous randos to chance them is beyond me unless they feel bored with their lives.

It’s a popular sub Reddit. High school students post their stats to:
-flex their amazing stats so their ego can be stroked
-fill their black hole of anxiety with some meaningless accolades from other 17 year olds
-pass the time with made up stats similar to trolls here on DCUM who post made up scenarios

np.
its the same 6 people here though. including 1 mom whose kids graduated eons ago.
not sure why someone would do a chanceme here?

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Chinese immigrant parents turned trumpers because their kids didn't get into T20 or T30. They genuinely thought MAGA cares about "merits", and believe their kids had the "merits" to get accepted in a T20 or an ivy.

They didn't realize the number of kids with the same profile is 100 times more than the number of seats T20 combined could offer. Based on the information OP provided, nothing stands out about this kid.

MAGA definitely will not help Asian kids. lol
And OP’s stats is a dime a dozen for Asian kids.

Anonymous wrote:Why anyone would want anonymous randos to chance them is beyond me unless they feel bored with their lives.

It’s a popular sub Reddit. High school students post their stats to:
-flex their amazing stats so their ego can be stroked
-fill their black hole of anxiety with some meaningless accolades from other 17 year olds
-pass the time with made up stats similar to trolls here on DCUM who post made up scenarios

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT score between 1520 and 1560, a GPA above 3.975, 7–8 AP exams all scored 5, with some involvement in sports and music, some community service, and some research/paper work.

Forget top 30 colleges and focus on lower ranking privates or state schools.

lol?
what?
yeah, no. my asian kid is at an ivy with lower stats.

np.. then there was something else that set your kid apart.

- parent of half Asian kid with higher stat's than OP's who was shut out of T15 for CS. Now attending state flagship on merit.

The issue was your kid’s major.
I posted that. My kid is definitely not CS, engineering or similar!

Why anyone would want anonymous randos to chance them is beyond me unless they feel bored with their lives.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Chinese immigrant parents turned trumpers because their kids didn't get into T20 or T30. They genuinely thought MAGA cares about "merits", and believe their kids had the "merits" to get accepted in a T20 or an ivy.

They didn't realize the number of kids with the same profile is 100 times more than the number of seats T20 combined could offer. Based on the information OP provided, nothing stands out about this kid.

Except OP didn't state his major. If he's comp sci or engineering, will be very tough if not impossible to crack T-20. If not an oversubscribed major, maybe. Essays and LORs matter a lot, too.

Major choice matters quite a bit for Cornell or Columbia where they have a separate engineering school. For most T20s, major choice has a marginal effect on admission. Think Dartmouth or Brown.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT score between 1520 and 1560, a GPA above 3.975, 7–8 AP exams all scored 5, with some involvement in sports and music, some community service, and some research/paper work.

Forget top 30 colleges and focus on lower ranking privates or state schools.

lol?
what?
yeah, no. my asian kid is at an ivy with lower stats.

np.. then there was something else that set your kid apart.

- parent of half Asian kid with higher stat's than OP's who was shut out of T15 for CS. Now attending state flagship on merit.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Chinese immigrant parents turned trumpers because their kids didn't get into T20 or T30. They genuinely thought MAGA cares about "merits", and believe their kids had the "merits" to get accepted in a T20 or an ivy.

They didn't realize the number of kids with the same profile is 100 times more than the number of seats T20 combined could offer. Based on the information OP provided, nothing stands out about this kid.

Except OP didn't state his major. If he's comp sci or engineering, will be very tough if not impossible to crack T-20. If not an oversubscribed major, maybe. Essays and LORs matter a lot, too.

A lot of Chinese immigrant parents turned trumpers because their kids didn't get into T20 or T30. They genuinely thought MAGA cares about "merits", and believe their kids had the "merits" to get accepted in a T20 or an ivy.

They didn't realize the number of kids with the same profile is 100 times more than the number of seats T20 combined could offer. Based on the information OP provided, nothing stands out about this kid.

What stands out about your kid? Its not the APs - you need to explore, discover, look inside to figure out what that is. Because its not here.

Thought the below might be helpful to you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1jeepd5/comment/mikkq2x

"The high school you go to, the people you are related to, and even the AO who reads your essays all influence what happens more than whether you took 7 APs vs never touched grass (sacrificing time that could be spent pursuing an exceptional extracurricular where you actually can stand out) and took 17 APs."