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.
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.
maybe valedictorians aren’t that special but an SAT of 1590 sure is
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.
Non-western immigration must be ended in order for us to remain a western country.
Had he changed his name to something African American sounding or Spanish he’d have been a shoo-in.
As far as Harvard goes, they have over $50 billion in endowments. Enough to increase the capacity of their starting classes, pay for staffing and professors AND completely pay for all entrants’ tuitions. Nothing but intentionally restricted elitism and greed.
Ivy League schools provide American’s new leaders... most based on sexual kink, color, or NEPO - powerful daddy.
One look at our institutions tells the story: Merit is out... Intelligence is out. And the concept of having the ‘best and brightest’ is dead in the water.
If you have doubts check out VP Harris and everyone else in the Biden Administration.
The SATs are t what they used to be. Extracurricular stuff is pretty important. If they had good grades, but nothing else…they aren’t getting into the Ivy League.
Imply that he is transgendered. They will fall over each other to admit him.
Most, in fact few, valedictorians have 1590 SATs.