<p>It wasn’t actually for 8th graders, it was for 9th graders, but 8th graders were encouraged to go.</p>
<p>They don’t have those at my school, even for the high schoolers. I guess most people know how to get information about colleges by themselves at small privates. For Harvard was it an alum or was it an admissions officer.</p>
<p>All five were admissions officers. The Harvard guy was hilarious, with a thick Boston accent. The first thing he said: "You’re going to ask, so I’ll say this. Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd!</p>
<p>Since we place nearly 10-15 kids every year at the Ivies+MIT+Stanford, the admissions officers come here often.</p>
<p>only 10-15 total? we sent like 9 to Stanford at my school and we have 100-120 kids per grade.</p>
<p>You seriously send 9 to Stanford? You must live in Cali…
Well, we’re a large public and we have many Asian Americans (including me). Therefore, we’re slightly disadvantaged. We send nearly 200-300 kids to top LACs and other research Unis.</p>
<p>how is it a slight disadvantage to have many Asian Americans?</p>
<p>The effects of socioeconomic and racial AA.</p>
<p>Ya but I don’t think schools have an amount of students per school who they accept so that would mean that it’s a slight disadvantage for everyone.</p>
<p>Well, it relates to diversity. Generally, there are more Asian American applicants to top schools than white applicants, and the Asian Americans tend to be slightly more “qualified”.</p>
<p>If they’re more “qualified” then how come at the top colleges, there are more “under qualified” Caucasian people</p>
<p>…I was referring to my school’s applicant pool.</p>
<p>oh never mind then I thought you were talking about the entire applicant pool.</p>
<p>You offend easily, don’t you?</p>
<p>ya I kind of do</p>
<p>I’m not excited for 9th as we’re in the same building. But I am excited for 10th, which is the authentic high school experience.</p>
<p>NY city is awesome! I just came back from my class field trip. not many people went because it’s expensive. I love that city!</p>
<p>^When you were born in Queens and visit New York every other month, it’s not that exciting. I live in suburban New Jersey, I have a slight Jersey and New York accent.</p>
<p>OK, political, I bought NY HOT DOGs with NYorker’s accent. lol :D</p>
<p>My mom used to have a good friend in NY city. so we used to go visit often. but when I was 4, the friend’s family moved away. That was the last time I visited NY - 8 years ago. I don’t remember much. I really like the city. I want to go to a college close to either NY or Boston.</p>
<p>Plenty of colleges fit those criteria.
I come from a state that’s Newark, Trenton, Jersey City, and one giant suburb. We do put a lot of kids in top colleges though.</p>