<p>To Oasis,</p>
<p>Sorry about your med schools but I am not placing any blame on race+gender. I sympathy those who worked hard and didn’t make it because it is just too competitive this year and the system doesn’t work well either. That will include you, Oasis. Over representative for minority in higher education for Asian is a problem. The result of all these are Asian compete with Asian and Carcasian compete with Carcasian. Somehow, it will not be right to a campus full of Asian unless you are in Asia. So, to be politically correct, they will call it “diversified background” or however they want to call them, it is still like a “unofficial quota” system.</p>
<p>We knew too many Taiwanese that are dual citizenship. So, when you say you are American, are you a Taiwanese too? They called themself American but when leave the country, they hold 2 passports and claimed themself as Taiwanese when they visit Taiwan. Anyway, that’s another subject. I hope you are a real American who only have 1 citizenship. Whether you hold 1 or 2 passports, I salute you for working hard for your own future. I hope you continue to work hard and will one day be someone that fix the system. :)</p>
<p>MTChris,</p>
<p>If I were in your position, I will say the same thing “We do accept the best candidates, regardless of gender + race.” </p>
<p>"your speculative numbers - or assumptions that asian males from the midwest are necessarily the best candidates - are the issue, i think. " - No, I just think MIT accept too few people and put too many people on waitlist. MIT should think about expanding the campus and accepting more capable students. According to this year’s waitlist letter or email, MIT had more qualify candidates than other years. May be because there were more applicants but the number of spots were too limited. Also, many coastal students have Professional Consultants to help them in applying for those Ivy leagues or MIT… Students in the midwest or international don’t have that type of services or cannot afford those type of services. So, that will decrease the acceptance rate for the midwest or international students. As I said before, there is no perfect system and we just have to work with what we have. I am just hoping MIT will fix this problem in the future. By then, 2012 will be here and there may not be such thing as earth. 
Just kidding! Have a great day!</p>
<p>To Jalmerono,</p>
<p>Thanks and I agree with you.</p>