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Valedictorian With 1590 SAT Score Rejected From Every Ivy League School
Your Tango ^ | Apr 11, 2023 | Ethan Cotler

Posted on 04/16/2023 7:26:01 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Maybe this? (You’re not that special - Not Neil Bortz, though)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4


81 posted on 04/16/2023 11:03:35 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: Myrddin

““Most, in fact few, valedictorians have 1590 SATs.” What does this sentence mean? It makes no sense.”

Now I see what you are saying. Your explanation makes perfect sense. Very few valedictorians have 1590 SATs.


82 posted on 04/16/2023 11:54:19 AM PDT by bosco24
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He came in second to hundreds of Asian-American valdictorians with 1600 SAT scores.


83 posted on 04/16/2023 12:29:29 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He came in second to hundreds of Asian-American valdictorians with 1600 SAT scores.


84 posted on 04/16/2023 12:29:29 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Princeton class of 2026:

- 51% of students in the class are female and 49% are male.
- 17% of students in the class are the first in their families to go to college.
- 61% of students in the class qualify for financial aid.
- 21% of students in the class are eligible for need-based Federal Pell Grants.

Middle 50% SAT Scores*
- Math 760-800
- Evidenced-based Reading and Writing: 730-780


* my note on SAT scores: this is the middle 50% scores, which means Princeton accepted students with much lower scores

Wrong demographic in several ways:
- race (white bad, Asian worse)
- family income
- wrong pronoun

And likely wrong extra curricular profile:
- wasn’t president of LGBT+ club
- didn’t start an orphanage in Nigeria.
- played lacrosse or another white sport


85 posted on 04/16/2023 1:24:32 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: HollyB

Wow, what a scammer: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/stanford-application-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html


86 posted on 04/16/2023 1:29:02 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Find a good technical school or university and kick ass. Don't let it stop you. Those schools are probably not that great. All show and no substance.

A person with this kind of aptitude can go far in academia. And if technical, non humanities, he/she will excel in industry because contrary to the myth, businesses want to make money and a person like this will help them achieve that goal.

87 posted on 04/16/2023 1:32:57 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: KingLudd

“ He’d be much better off attending Western Welding Academy than Harvard.”

Yes but Western Welding Academy has no space for preferred pronouns on their application page.
So there’s that factor working against them.


88 posted on 04/16/2023 1:38:36 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: muir_redwoods

—”shop classes which were not as highly rated as honors French “

I worked for many years with a PE that often said if not for shop class he would never have finished high school.

And he is disappointed that most schools in our area are dumping shop classes.


89 posted on 04/16/2023 1:41:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: escapefromboston

Better at a state school. Best at a Christian College though each must be investigated because some are tainted with Woke. Best is Hillsdale or Thomas More.


90 posted on 04/16/2023 2:34:41 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe 88)
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To: Bratch

That is my first recommendation.


91 posted on 04/16/2023 2:36:00 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe 44)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just 3000? There’s over 3000 counties.
Quite a few counties have unified school districts but each high school in the district typically has a valedictorian.
Where I grew up in PA, there were quite a few school districts — fewer school districts than municipalities (townships, boroughs, cities, etc.) but still quite a few.


92 posted on 04/16/2023 3:28:22 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

What were his MCAT’s?

It’s not impossible to go from Engineering to Medical School but it’s not the usual route.


93 posted on 04/16/2023 3:35:06 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Myrddin

I’d have liked it better as something like:

Most? In fact, few valedictorians have 1590 SAT’s.


94 posted on 04/16/2023 3:39:13 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In his life time the Ivy League schools will be revealed for the joke that they really are. When corporations find that minorities graduating from these schools can’t multiply simply numbers things will change.


95 posted on 04/16/2023 3:43:48 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: scrabblehack

I don’t know, and I didn’t ask. If he were a she or a colored he would have been whisked in with open arms at any medical school in America, betcha, though.


96 posted on 04/16/2023 4:37:58 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Trumpet 1
Korean values are not western values. Being a law abiding capitalist that attends the local Korean Presbyterian church does not make you a westerner. I want to keep America culturally western above all. European-rooted culture is my culture and if we let (fill in the blank) non-westerners hold the whip over our descendants thank to “meritocracy” then folks who think like that put me in mind of the old commie dictum that a capitalist is someone who would sell the rope to the person who would hang them.

Keep American culturally western and tell non-westerners (including Koreans) to improve their own countries.

97 posted on 04/16/2023 7:21:13 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: lodi90

Your friend who went to Yale, do you know if he is conservative or liberal?


98 posted on 04/16/2023 7:30:13 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: escapefromboston

He can, but we shouldn’t be funding, as we do, colleges that grievously discriminate by race—as likely is the case here.

Give him one of a few different racial labels and try to imagine the story as happening.


99 posted on 04/17/2023 3:30:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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