Posted on 04/16/2023 7:26:01 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Getting accepted into a university is arguably the most challenging part of getting a college degree. It’s not as easy as it was even just ten years ago.
For the Ivy League schools, it’s a whole other ballpark for those trying to get accepted purely off merit. One high school student had a nearly perfect track record and still faced numerous rejections.
Every Ivy League school rejected a valedictorian with a 1590 SAT score. With over 154,000 followers on TikTok, a user named Limmy has amassed quite a lot of support thanks to his videos about college applications. From reviews of other people's applications to funny skits about the entire process, Limmy does exactly what he sets out to do in his bio that reads, "making applying to college fun."
However, he also doesn't shy away from the less fun aspects of the maze that is college applications in the US including showing his results after applying to every Ivy League school.
He was the valedictorian at his high school and had a 1590 SAT score out of a possible 1600. He is, by any account, a shoo-in for any college. But, the schools themselves didn't agree.
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I think it was Neil Bootz that was giving a high school speech and said that valedictorians are not that special, there are over 3000 graduating this month across the country. Not every one is going to be selected for Harvard, especially if you compare a graduating class of 100 against a graduating class of 1000.
I miss Boortz. The self proclaimed high priest of the painful truth was dead on accurate most of the time.
Where’s this year’s fawning article about the child of African immigrants who was accepted at all the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Duke, etc.?
Not sure where Neil got his information but there are roughly 20,500 high schools in the USA.
He dodged a bullet. Harvard is an indoctrination center.
He can just go to another school. Im sure he will be successful some where else too.
the Harvard freshman class is about 2,000 students a year. So do the math, most high school valedictorians will be rejected, if they even apply to Harvard.
Perhaps a side issue, but does every one of the 20,000 plus valedictorians even apply to Ivy League schools?
1590 SAT score is not unusual at and Ivy League school. At Cornell in the 60’s just about everyone had 1600 on their SAT’s. The NY State schools that are part of the University were less discriminating. Back then they seemed to be concerned about geographic dispersion.
He’d be much better off attending Western Welding Academy than Harvard.
maybe valedictorians aren’t that special but an SAT of 1590 sure is
It was on my feeble memory, not Neil. I couldn’t find his quote so put it out how I recollected.
He did not have a "trauma story"
Okay, to get turned down from all of his applications says there is likely a problem with them or him. That SAT score is incredible but maybe doesn’t offset that problem. And I suspect there is more to this than Asian discrimination.
Wrong: Color, gender, pronouns? Or did they find he is a conservative and/or Christian?
There are 3892 high schools in California alone.
In some California high schools, anyone with.a 4.0 GPA is a valedictorian. Not uncommon for a hs class to have 10 valedictorians.
Admission to UC schools is entirely by GPA and student essay. Which means the quality of the high school is irrelevant. They want black and brown people any way they can get them. SATs, course difficulty and extra academics also almost irrelevant.
Where’s the outrage indeed.
If he applied to Ivies and nowhere else, that was a mistake. Guidance counselors at prestige suburban high schools often encourage a fixation on the Ivy League that those colleges don’t deserve.
One of my closest friends, a man I’ve known for over sixty years, graduated second in my high school missing the top spot despite straight A grades for all four years because he decided to take shop classes which were not as highly rated as honors French for example.
He majored in engineering and graduated with honors.
Oddly, he worked as a printer his whole life.
He should not waste his time on Ivies. I read awhile back that the school more CEOs prefer to hire from is not Ivy. It is Texas A&M.
We have known brilliant young Asians who went to MIT and Johns Hopkins. Or he could go to a state school and join their Honors Program, to get the extra challenge he needs.
If we allow our elites to be Asian then we are no longer a western country.
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