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Kid scored 1590 on SAT and 4.4 GPA but is Asian so he got rejected (top Engineering Schools)
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Posted on 02/24/2025 11:17:19 AM PST by Midwesterner53

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To: Nachoman

You folks are missing something. Smart Asians vote with the left. Let them bus tables.


61 posted on 02/24/2025 2:39:17 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: xxqqzz

I suggested the same thing (see Post No. 23). I suspect there is something in his application package — other than his Asian surname — that sent up bells and whistles. Perhaps he wrote a highly offensive essay or worse, plagiarized the essay or used AI or a third-party service to write the essay for him. From what I understand, many highly selective colleges and universities routinely run the application essays though a database that looks for unoriginal works (i.e., plagiarized, 3rd party service, or AI.


62 posted on 02/24/2025 2:45:50 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: The Antiyuppie

Was I bad?
= = =

You would be interpreted as selfish.


63 posted on 02/24/2025 8:28:57 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Midwesterner53

We knew a student who scored a PERFECT SAT score, a few others with near-perfect scores, and many others with scores high enough for Ivy League, and ALL were rejected by Ivy League universities. One of my kids was among them.

These were white and black students. All were homeschooled. None of our kids filed lawsuits or ran to the press. Most of them went to state universities where they were happy.

Admission to STEM programs at the “top” universities is extremely competitive.


64 posted on 02/24/2025 9:30:45 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

They prefer foreign students because they pay full freight.


65 posted on 02/24/2025 9:40:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Good point... U.S. students should be admitted to those spots first if the university receives federal funding.


66 posted on 02/24/2025 10:52:21 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Labyrinthos; xxqqzz
>"I suspect there is something in his application package"<

He's probably a great student and a nice kid. But, maybe this is what happened:

Many high-scoring students are rejected by top universities, especially for STEM programs, which are highly competitive. Right?

This young man and his father believe something set him apart from everyone else: At age 13, he received a letter from Google offering him a position after high school. Then he was hired by Google after high school.

I once met someone whose son, at age 13 or 14, received a similar letter when he applied to work in IT for a major company. He, too, was hired by that company after high school.

Here's where the stories differ: The boy (I knew about) had no connections at the company that hired him.

OTOH, the young Asian American man's father works for Google as a software engineer manager.

So, maybe the colleges disregarded the letter from Google and the Google job from the equation.

What was left? His near-perfect SAT score and high school GPA, and he was competing against other top students for the top STEM programs.

67 posted on 02/24/2025 11:56:18 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Jacquerie

It was a joke about how a ridiculously high GPA and SAT are probably common among Asians because they are very smart and academically minded


68 posted on 02/25/2025 12:47:50 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: ridesthemiles

Voeted red in two of the last three Presidential elections and has a Republican legislature. A democrat gov and up for grads supreme court makes it purple I suppose.


69 posted on 02/25/2025 11:15:59 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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An educational consultant breaks it down:

4.42 GPA, 1590 SAT Denied from 16 Colleges?!

70 posted on 02/25/2025 11:20:17 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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