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a 2250 on his SAT, had taken 11 AP courses, and was in the top 2% of his graduating class

Let's put it into context. The 2250 is a great score on what amounts to an IQ test. 2400 is a perfect score, but they're returning to the 1600 max "in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out."

The AP classes also show what he can do. Graduating in the top 2% means little depending on the school.

The essay is dullsville, but he deserves to get in if the criteria were simply academic. Those citing race as the major factor are ignoring all that.

The essay is dullsville, but he deserves to get in if the criteria were simply academic. Those citing race as the major factor are ignoring all that.

I doubt it. Ivy League schools receive far more with equal or better academics than they can accept.

My nephew turned down Harvard, Duke and Princeton and instead went to a small school in Mass. called Williams College......The reason? Along with his academics, his school was a private school that won the Michigan class B state hockey championship and he was an all state defenseman. The above mentioned schools wanted him to play hockey for them but couldn't guarantee him a starting position in his freshman year.

Williams gave him the guarantee and while his high school academics would have allowed him to enter Williams as a Junior, he went the full four years, played hockey, got a great undergrad education and had a ball.

He then went to Europe and spent a year playing semi-pro hockey then came home and entered University of Michigan's medical school......(they were filled that first year thus his sebatical to europe)......