<p>There is this girl in my grade who got into U Penn early decision. It is impossible. She is bottom 50% of the class, and she can't have that good SAT scores. I think it has to be legacy because she applied ED, but I thought you had to have some semblance of good grades for legacy to have any effect. Is there any other possible explanation for this happening? This whole situation just makes me sick to my stomach.</p>
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<li>athlete</li>
<li>black/hispanic</li>
<li>struggles at home</li>
<li>great ECs</li>
<li>$$$</li>
<li>very good essays (bad grades don’t necessarily mean you don’t have writing talent)</li>
</ul>
<p>Those are my guesses…</p>
<p>the only one of those which she has is the hispanic one. She’s named Lopez, but she’s not like someone who came here on a rowboat from Cuba. She lives in my rich ass town and her personality is as white as mine</p>
<p>If you let it make you sick to your stomach whenever people get something you don’t think they deserve, you’re gonna be nauseated basically your whole life.</p>
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She doesn’t need to have faced any sort of hardship in order to get a boost for her ethnicity. That’s just the way affirmative action is right now.</p>
<p>This also counts for a lot: “struggles at home”</p>
<p>“her personality is as white as mine”</p>
<p>What is a white personality?</p>
<p>Northstarmom, what i meant was that this girl is not like some heroic hispanic girl who has had to deal with racism at my school. She isn’t set apart by anything, she’s just another girl. I wrote the comment quickly and I’m sorry that I just really badly phrased it. I hope it doesn’t offend anyone</p>
<p>If she happens to be Puerto Rican or Mexican-American, they are probably the most underrepresented of URMs because very few such people even graduate from high school, and even fewer obtain the academic background to be able to be admitted to the very top colleges.</p>
<p>Large donation? Legacy and Hispanic alone would also make her a powerful candidate.</p>