My DS is a completely unhooked kid. He left the local public school system after middle school. After he got into Yale, a lot of his prior cohort, remembering him from the 8th grade, reacted with incredulity (“how the heck did ____ get into Yale? What was his angle?”). A friend who had stayed a friend after 8th grade told those kids: “you haven’t kept up ____, he’s really grown and has become an accomplished kid.”
You know what they say about assumptions.
I took a look at other posts by Tanner. S/He piped up in another admissions thread about 35 ACT not getting in and made it about race. Not one other poster on 3 pages had made any mention of it.
I am new here to this thread - racism all around - against the Asian and Black communities. In the words of Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along”?
How am I racist? If I’m racist, how isn’t the colleges and Affirmative Action racist and discriminatory? If any of y’all go to a high school with a significant amount of African Americans applying to colleges you would know how crazy it is. So how am I racist? Do y’all think that a black applicant should receive a 300 point curve on the SAT? So that’s not racist?
The average SAT gap between asians and blacks in ivies is over 300 points.
“lexandria Walton Radford, a black student with an otherwise similar application to a white student receives the equivalent of a 310-point bump in SAT scores.”
<a href=“Opinion | Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should? - The New York Times”>Opinion | Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should? - The New York Times;
Anyways I hate it when people think anything that’s offensive is not true. Is it so easy to just deny statistics and scientific research just because it does not fit with your ideal perceptions?
What i hate is when people, especially with a whopping 10 posts on CC, think an SAT score is the only criteria that matters for college acceptance.
^Exactly. Color is the most important criteria these days. If I was black I would have gotten into Yale or whatever. A black person with a 2350 SAT is almost unheard of.
Be careful @TannerSmith you are likely likely being stalked by a couple of folks on here. I stopped arguing with these ignorant fools who blatantly make nonsense statements about the Asian community and their so called ‘entitlement’ . They don’t like the truth. I just hope they are not teaching their children to look at the Asian community or any other race the same way they do.
Yes, a few trolls on this thread. Some people have a very narrow perspective. And insist they’re correct.
Street: you’re the one keeping the Asian comments alive.
And calling others morons or ignorant fools may make you think you win a point, but it’s not TOS.
Yes, I am because that is completely moronic and ignorant. I am not trying to win a point with anyone. It is obvious to me alot of people likely feel that way too or else they wouldn’t be patting these other racists on the back like they do.
You can’t move on? It is your duty to educate the rest of the readers? You just won’t let go until what? Not to mention, your experience is as a parent. You really don’t know (nor does hs student, tanner,) what goes on.
No one is patting “racists” on the back. Clearly, that is your fear. But it comes across as trolling, inciting, inflammatory- and fixated.
Go to the Race in College Admissions thread (so popular it’s past ten versions.) There, you can vent to your heart’s content.
Calling others morons and ignorant fools is a clear violation of TOS. And not particularly nice of you. It makes no point, other than your own willingness to diss others. Think about it. You may want to ask yourself if your attitude is truly superior to those you find easy fault with.
The issue isn’t that there are fewer blacks percentage wise with 35 s and 2300 s. The question is why which is much more of a social issue than an academic issue. The fact that this is an issue is fairly or unfairly (depending on which side of the coin you fall on) manifested in the fact that w the exception of native Americans, black students have the lowest percentage of enrollment on these elite college campuses. Universities however are aware and historically supported that test scores are not the best determinant of academic success and have been able to ferret out a process that has produced higher graduation rates for students of color on elite and Ivy League campuses in comparison to strong state universities and regional entities. Please also be aware that the story you hear of that 1200 sat or 27 act gaining admissions to these schools are the aberration not the norm. There are plenty of kids of color who have acts in the mid 30s or 2100 plus sats that are also denied admission to these schools in favor of someone who may have a lower test score but may be a better fit or presented a better picture for that institution.
@streetcred
You say that fellow CC members are stalking you? Then how & why did you end up at the Yale thread? You remind me of my children when they were small…always quick to cast dispersions on others, but not willing to admit your own wrong doing. Your antics are quite comical. You say how others are racist, but you have some incredibly far fetched ideas yourself…your words are downright mean and hateful.
Again, not seeing the hypocrisy of your own views. I’m beginning to wonder if you are a comedy writer. Are you for real?
@lookingforward
Her goal is to incite hate, she doesn’t realize how pitiful she looks…
I think TannerSmith might be streetcreds kid. 
<a href=“Opinion | What Drives Success? - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives-success.html</a>
Excerpt from this may support my Tanner Smith…
Take New York City’s selective public high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, which are major Ivy League feeders. For the 2013 school year, Stuyvesant High School offered admission, based solely on a standardized entrance exam, to nine black students, 24 Hispanics, 177 whites and 620 Asians. Among the Asians of Chinese origin, many are the children of restaurant workers and other working-class immigrants.
Merely stating the fact that certain groups do better than others — as measured by income, test scores and so on — is enough to provoke a firestorm in America today, and even charges of racism. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes.
Kids that apply to those two schools are a self selcting group. Without knowing how many of each ethnic group applied, those numbers are meaningless.
It is meaningful - it gives credibility to the Asian community who are thought of as feeling entitled…
Some people on this thread really need to watch what they say. A lot of racism is going on; you know who you are… I’m not even a minority and these statements against different ethnic groups bother me. Grow up.
Again, streetcred, you are citing HIGH SCHOOL policy. The top tier college institutions have deemed something quite worthy in their admits, albeit with less than perfect test scores. I’m sure you can find high caliber post-secondary schools that have admissions policies that more align with your own. Maybe you’ll garner more support on threads that discuss a single-minded, simplistic view of higher education.
HIGH SCHOOLS THAT ARE MAJOR IVY LEAGUE FEEDERS @picktails… did you read that? :)>-