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<p>This is absolutely ridiculous. The only thing I can fathom is that maybe his SAT and ACT scores were too low. What was his GPA?</p>
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<p>Affirmative action for sure. GPA?</p>
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<p>I have never heard of this JETS or CSF things. Anyway, this is also ridiculous. What were his SAT and GPA?</p>
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<p>Not bad, except his SAT’s are subpar. GPA? Anyway, he has so much legacy…</p>
<p>You haven’t put in GPA for any of them which is pretty much essential information.</p>
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To clarify, she’s a junior right now?</p>
<p>I was under the assumption that no admissions to an Ivy League was assured, especially for juniors.</p>
<p>The 3.1 (no honors), 25 ACT athletic recruit going to Dartmouth…that was my dream school. Ugh… bitter feelings</p>
<p>Another odd one would be the B average, few if any honors, mid 20s ACT football recruit going to JHU. Wouldn’t be that odd, if he wasn’t planning on going Bio/premed.
I wouldn’t want to put down anyones dreams, but…uhhh…good luck?</p>
<p>^ Don’t be bitter about the second one. The athletic recruiting will only get him so far :)</p>
<p>When I toured MIT, I thought to myself: “I should have been born near water so I could have been a top sailor”.</p>
<p>MIT has a Div 1 sailing team.</p>
<p>i know a 6th, 7th, and 8th grade USAMO qualifier who got to Red Mop in 7th and 8th grade… didn’t get into the four private highschools he applied to.</p>
<p>he was also expelled from his private middle school in 8th grade for swearing at a teacher or something… lol.</p>
<p>well there’s probably just 1 in the history of my school, or at least that i know of…</p>
<p>3.3 gpa, 1600 sat, csf and interact club as his ECs, not an athlete or anything. got into ucla. lol</p>
<p>1600 sat and 3.3 gpa with no EC’s really?? wow.</p>
<p>What’s the point of this thread except to scare people? I mean, for every “horror” story (and some that I know are horrible), there are 100 people who get in who are more than deserving and their achievements are shocking. Even for minorities who benefit from affirmative action are absolutely phenomenal. Just for the record, I support affirmative action. And I’m an Asian female.</p>
<p>I don’t really support affirmative action based solely on race. I think based on income is more effective. For instance, I know many extremely rich black or hispanic people, and many extremely poor Asians.</p>
<p>This thread gives me chill.</p>
<p>People who got worse grades, SAT scores, and more ECs got into IVY’s compared to our three valedictorians who are going to crappy schools.</p>
<p>^ That’s life, but I guess those Ivy kids are happy and in the end, someone will be happy.</p>
<p>Two people got into MIT from my school. One (the one I wasn’t talking about) was the stereotypical MIT person: asian, book smart, no personality, few ECs, just good scores. I had other ECs that I did (I had a wide range of things, so no I didn’t look like the person that stayed in home and studied all day). The other person that got in had a bit more personality than the first person who got in, but she still was the type that basically did nothing but school things.</p>
<p>We had more “W T F” inducing rejections than absurd acceptances, mostly because British people not quite seeing the differences in how to fill out an Oxbridge application (based entirely on academics) and American University applications (which as you know focus a lot on ECs and the like).</p>
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I support socioeconomic affirmative action, not racial.</p>
<p>^ I concur</p>
<p>^ Much more fair AA than racial AA. It would suck when some rich person started gaming the system again, as some people do this system.</p>
<p>^ haha my rich cousin that’s also AA benefited from Aff. Action…I think…she like got into 12 top schools. Currently attends Princeton.</p>
<p>But I have nothing against AA though. Even though one that favored someone from a low-income background would be great…but isn’t that what questbridge is for? And i think a college might take that into consideration as well? idk…haha.</p>