Posted on 02/24/2025 11:17:19 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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“Stanley was denied by the following colleges: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.”
I can understand MIT, CalTech and Berkley, they probably get more 1600 SAT scores than they can handle, but the other US schools no way
Kid:
Save your money and go to Oregon Institute of Technology.
It’s a great school and most of your engineering classes will have fewer than 25 students and the professors are always accessible. Upon graduation you can transfer into any of the major programs for post-graduate studies.
I am not going to opine without seeing his entire college application package. including essays and extra-curricular activities. For all we know, the kid wrote a very dark essay or an essay he though was funny, but came off as offensive. The fact that all of these schools turned him down suggests there is something in his application that all of the schools saw as a negative.
Racism isn’t racism if you are racist against races the DNC hates.
The anti-asian bias in the admissions offices of many top schools is deeply rooted.
It also seems to be reflected in certain high-end real estate markets served by highly-rated public/regional high schools.
It appears that those schools are motivated to start de-emphasizing AP math and science offerings (or at least offer fewer total seats/sections for the highest-level courses) in favor of softer subjects.
Yes - his last name was Asian. Open secret that schools are using the completely subjective essay requirement as the tool to discriminate in favor of non-Asian minorities. While it is of course possible that this particular Asian kid wrote a unique essay that should serve as a disqualifier, the data in these lawsuits have shown that Asian applicants are declined overwhelmingly based solely on subjective criteria.
The truth is that there is a cultural predisposition among certain groups to heavily emphasize academics, and those children simply do better.
when it comes to colleges that want to bigotize their admissions operations, this exceptional applicant’s rejection is nothing unusual. We know a graduate with top grades and honors, with an extra masters degree in medical sciences, and who scored 1590 on the MCAT (medical college admissions test), and was also rejected.
racists, bigots do NOT like merit. Not one bit!
It is totally anathema to them
Where a lot of colleges weed-out these academic achievers is the public-service and outside-activities. Kids that grind on the school work to the exclusion of all else can be hurting their assessment.
But they do have a state named after them.
Sure they do, because that's their vehicle to discriminate. But these are high end technology schools, so exactly what else is it that could justify rejecting the kids with the best academics? A winning smile? Serving meals to the poor?
If you take “Honors” or “Advanced Placement” courses, you get extra points. I don’t know whether the top of the scale is 5.0 or 4.5. The grade in excess of 4.0 because of the increased difficulty in the course is part of a “weighted” GPA. There is also an “unweighted” GPA where even the honors or AP courses only go up to 4.0
If the highest for an honors or AP course is 5.0, you still can’t get a 5.0 total weighted GPA because some not every subject has an honors course.
I’m going through this now with my kid.
“Kid scored 1590 on SAT and 4.4 GPA but is Asian so he got rejected...”
That is a remarkably smart kid. A child prodigy, no doubt.
This is screw up
American parents of any race should be pointing to this kid as an example to strive for but instead this send a message that hard work and merit is illrelvent... Your race is what decides your life.. That’s going to inspire nobody
We did not end racism
Ee just created a new American racial caste system
This has been going on for a long time
Even 30 years ago the universities would be 80 % Asian is GPA and entrance exam scores were the only criterion
This kid looks pretty well rounded and even at Stanford I can assure you that there were many accepted with far less impressive academic and entrance exam numbers
It’s all about DEI and this kid was not checking the right boxes to get
what really matters - a high intersectionality score
None of the following schools use the SAT. They won’t even allow you to tell them what your score is:
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Something that really ticks me off on modern-day admissions is “extracurricular activities” being an absolute requirement to get anywhere. Let’s see...when I was a kid, I was studying, or, by the time I was almost 15, studying and working (AND paying the salaries of state college administrators via taxes). When I was 16, I studied, worked, and learned how to repair my car so I could afford to get to work.
Was I bad?
So what if you have plenty already. Who decides what “plenty” is? I would think having a full class of top students would be something the school would be proud of regardless of what they look like.
They have quotas against Asians, which are now worse than the quotas against Jews. They have quotas against New York and Philadelphia and in favor out “backwards” states. Some of the Asians are stereotypically robotic and have particular problems getting in.
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