<p>sohaib-white male. My school is almost entirely white. We’re just very low on the socioeconomic scale</p>
<p>I’m sorry rocket6louise but I do not understand the point you are trying to get across to me.</p>
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<p>cool story. i’m pretty sure the ivy leagues know what they are doing. it’s kind of ironic how a kid who doesn’t know how to read properly is criticizing the best schools in the U.S. on how to do their job.</p>
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<p>Doesn’t sound absurd at all, actually.</p>
<p>^Yeah that sounds like a sick deal.</p>
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<p>i agree with you to a degree, but it kind of bugs me that some people assume that adcoms know more than peers do 100% of the time. do some kids refrain from talking about themselves to peers? yes. do adcoms occasionally fall for lies on a resume or essay? yes. ivy league admissions may be rigorous, but they’re boards made up of humans, so they’re not perfect</p>
<p>Sohaib, you asked: </p>
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<p>Rocket was answering your question. Just letting you know.</p>
<p>this girl i know, pretty smart, not that smart. white, upper middle class. originally looking at bucknell, villanova, Upitt for next year (junior now). 2030, 2 ap classes (APUSH and english language), played soccer. joined a rowing/crew team about a year ago and is pretty good at it. drives 30 mins everyday to practice. GOT A LIKELY LETTER FROM YALE. abso-f#$%ing-lutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>@hofstra hofeful: <strong><em>!!! that’s rIdiKulous …not fair! laaaaame. i would be kinda *</em></strong>ed if i were u hahaha…maybe she got recruited??! how was that even possible…?</p>
<p>I was surprised that this one girl in my grade already got in the UMN-Twin Cities already…she got recruited.[but she was a very good student 3.9/4.0 ish gpa? top 10 in my class] …idk about her scores…but she already got in. w/o even applying. wow. I’m not jealous or anything but yeaaah…</p>
<p>exactly. i have no idea what her rank/gpa was though…maybe that was the hook. but still, ridiculous. definitely recruited for rowing.</p>
<p>Ahhhhh…that USAMO kid story was pretty chilling.</p>
<p>Gotta get the kids into crew!! Seriously though is she legacy?? What???</p>
<p>Ivy league and “top college” admissions is a bunch of bull. There are so many arbitrary things that adcoms look for; merit is often overlooked in the process.</p>
<p>Our valedictorian didn’t get into a lot of good schools even though she’s female into bioengineering or medicine and hispanic and IB. But I think she sucks at writing is the problem.</p>
<p>Also, one of my friends got waitlisted at drexel which made me laugh so hard. He didn’t even like the school, just because of the free lil application. </p>
<p>I don’t know how you guys just know other peoples’ SAT scores. I barely remember mine.</p>
<p>I don’t think the ivies and MIT over look merit, it’s just that so many that apply have so much merit. Really, the differentiation of who’s in and not ends up based on what you did, businesses, leadership, creativity, essay, and such.</p>
<p>Well, when you get all 5s on your ap exams junior year (2 in school 2 selfstudy), perfect SAT IIs and quite high SAT scores, have done college level mathematics through abstract algebra and analysis, and get waitlisted at three top tier schools (one an ivy), and rejected from three other top tier schools (two ivies), but someone with a 3 on AP chem and little interest in science gets into MIT over you, I don’t see how merit wasn’t overlooked. And you can’t tell me it was about fit. Sorry, I’m a little bitter over the process. Nonetheless, I like the school that I’m going to a lot, but this whole thing was a very negative experience.</p>
<p>^ Maybe the other person was more humanities-focused and really excelled at those? Especially since MIT has the stigma of being a tech school, he/she would have stood out.</p>
<p>Yeah, MIT is kinda all about personality and leadership. They avoid the stereotypical genius doing nothing but study.</p>
<p>I don’t get why people just can’t say “you know, there must have been people better than me”.</p>
<p>^Yeah, being completely book-smart and having no personality is a common MIT misconception.</p>
<p>Going back to a point made earlier in this thread, if you’re a 5-time Stanford legacy, is there any motivation to try hard in school and become sal/val?</p>
<p>^Yes…you can just be a ****-up with a 5x legacy and not get in… You have to have some motivation.</p>