What did he want to happen? Obviously, he expected to get into all of them..and he deserved to do so, on the merits. Then there's a big story in the local paper, with pictures of all seven letters, and Wang sits back and decides which is the better deal.
Meantime, 6 colleges get there tentative freshman classes screwed up, and more likely, 6 other kids who wanted to really go to either Yale, or Penn, or Dartmouth..didn't get in initially, because Wang took a spot. The Ivies communicate with each other..they know which kids applied to all of them..it's not hard to find out...and so they punished him..and more likely, they'll punish a kid from his HS who applies to one or more of them NEXT year..as a way of making the point to the school's guidance counselors..who should know better.
>>ol. He has NO business applying to all seven Ivy League schools, and his HS guidance counselors are at fault for letting him do so, and supporting his applications.<<
What a load. Let us pretend his ISN’T a hopie-changie fool. A kid has exactly ONE allegiance: to himself. He should apply to EVERY college that he thinks he can get into and he wants to attend.
The other schools have been doing this for a long time and the admissions officers know how to weigh for the Wangs of the world.
Probably not on the expectations. He most likely applied to all of them because he knows it's a crap shoot for Asians, and he expected to be rejected at most because of their racism. I know several Asian families in which the kids did the same expecting to deal with racist decisions. I don't blame him for doing his best to win at least once in a dishonest game.
But this one applied to all eight Ivy League schools, and was accepted by all.
Hmmm... what is different?