Anonymous
03/24/2025 13:57
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
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.
what is the overarching theme of the application? What academic areas of interest does the kid have? What is special about this kid?
None was mentioned. Sounds like one of many drones mass produced.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:33
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
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.
what is the overarching theme of the application? What academic areas of interest does the kid have? What is special about this kid?
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:30
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op here. Southern California suburb.
Good shot at UMD
I don't know about that....
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:28
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Tiger parents mentality: if the kid’s interest is not math/engineering related, they are going to freak out.
Because those parents were in math/engineering majors, don't think liberal art majors can make decent money for living. Understandable as first generation immigrants.
Not at all. Plenty of first gen college students major in business, finance, accounting, prelaw... any major where jobs are plentiful and pays well.
Outside of business, most of these are not majors at selective private schools. They are mostly vocational state Flagship majors.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:15
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Tiger parents mentality: if the kid’s interest is not math/engineering related, they are going to freak out.
Because those parents were in math/engineering majors, don't think liberal art majors can make decent money for living. Understandable as first generation immigrants.
Not at all. Plenty of first gen college students major in business, finance, accounting, prelaw... any major where jobs are plentiful and pays well.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:14
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Tiger parents mentality: if the kid’s interest is not math/engineering related, they are going to freak out.
Because those parents were in math/engineering majors, don't think liberal art majors can make decent money for living. Understandable as first generation immigrants.
It’s not understandable if you have been in this country for more than 5 minutes. Stop making excuses.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:11
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Tiger parents mentality: if the kid’s interest is not math/engineering related, they are going to freak out.
Because those parents were in math/engineering majors, don't think liberal art majors can make decent money for living. Understandable as first generation immigrants.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:01
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
This is sound advice. My kid did whatever clubs/activities she wanted. It actually ended up creating a great narrative that we had not expected. I was worried that she had not done math and science competitions because everyone always emphasizes those. She had no national awards, etc. Her activities all made sense for her and told a story about who she is.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:59
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Tiger parents mentality: if the kid’s interest is not math/engineering related, they are going to freak out.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:53
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
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.
This is funny. The OP has no idea about numbers.
T20 schools accept about 35K-40k students in total every year.
100 times of that number is 3.5-4 million.
How many high school student are there for each grade? Less than 4 million.
The OP basically says EVERY student has that kind of profile.
T20 can’t accept 35k CS students. They want humanities and natural sciences too.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:19
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.
Think outside of box, smart kid.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 09:32
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
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.
This is funny. The OP has no idea about numbers.
T20 schools accept about 35K-40k students in total every year.
100 times of that number is 3.5-4 million.
How many high school student are there for each grade? Less than 4 million.
The OP basically says EVERY student has that kind of profile.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 09:11
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a second generation Asian American, I found immigrant parents (mine included) are highly insecure. They all pushed their children into the same model. Gpa, test score, aime, majors that lead to a good salary. These children become products of cookie cutter.
That was before, now it's much diversified.
Little evidence of that. Hence all the poor high stats comp sci and engineering students struggling with T-20 admissions.
It's all about data, yes, there are still a lot going to CS and Engineer, but, more and more are turning to liberal art.
in my kid school, for last two years, all top Asian girls have none CS and Engineer major, we are talking about Stanford, Harvard, Penn, Yale, I can add top LACs if you agree.
Yes, most boys are still doing CS and engineer plus premed, but few of them can get to top schools.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 08:05
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a second generation Asian American, I found immigrant parents (mine included) are highly insecure. They all pushed their children into the same model. Gpa, test score, aime, majors that lead to a good salary. These children become products of cookie cutter.
That was before, now it's much diversified.
Little evidence of that. Hence all the poor high stats comp sci and engineering students struggling with T-20 admissions.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 07:19
Subject: Typical asian student chance me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My kid is also Non-stem and non-stereotypical, what make your DC stood out? ranked at the top?
Uncommon ECs, interests and jobs - followed a true internal interest/drive. We (parents) know nothing about this area and couldn’t have helped even if we wanted to.
Give your kid the space and time to find what they’d do/study/learn if no one else was there. Then have them do that, even if it seems strange.