<p>lovenerds, I don’t think you understand the meaning of holistic… race isn’t just melanin… it’s LIFE EXPERIENCE and PERSPECTIVE… I showed that through my essays too which was a bonus. Race matters, but not in the way you think it does. </p>
<p>Personality, personality, personality</p>
<p>“I honestly believe the key is essays. My race doesn’t mean anything. Admissions are HOLISTIC and I worked really hard on my essays. Great teacher recs helped too, I’m sure.”</p>
<p>Then why did you list your race on your applicant.</p>
<p>I don’t mind affirmative action, just don’t pretend like it doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>Race has little to due with admissions. It’s like a little extra boost, but just because someone checked “African American” or something doesn’t mean they automatically get in. Please, let’s try to act civil here.</p>
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<p>Pretty useful question for those applying, don’t you think?</p>
<p>I recently repudiated my support of affirmative action in favor of socioeconomic affirmative action, but you’ve still got the wrong attitude. The only people you can be angry at are those who run the school you up till now desperately wanted to get into.</p>
<p>Amazing ppl are still accepted…afterall a couple hundred caucasians and more than a hundred asians were accepted, so I guess we are just not good enough. I’ll post stats soon, but just a general sense: 2340, ranked 1 w/ 17 AP’s including senior year, founded a non-profit. Guess it’s because I didn’t win Intel or usamo and I didn’t have over the top EC’s. Hum. Congrats to all accepted!</p>
<p>For sure, none of us know why anyone got in.</p>
<p>Harvarddddd Couldn’t have said it better myself</p>
<p>I sense some bitterness.</p>
<p>wow good job!
if you don’t mind me asking, did you cure cancer or something? Whats ur secret?</p>
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<p>Precisely. I’m sure there were quite a few URMs with better stats than those in this thread who were rejected. It happens every year. Being a URM helps because colleges value diversity and see affirmative action as the way to achieve it, but to say race is the biggest factor getting anyone in isn’t true. There are more than 97 black kids who applied SCEA to Harvard.</p>
<p>@Cdean95</p>
<p>That was a quick post edit haha.</p>
<p>where did you get 97?</p>
<p>For all those, like me, who were rejected, or in some cases deferred, let’s get done with this. **** Harvard and its snobby elite. Harvard, lowering its standards for blacks and hispanics, of which I am part hispanic.</p>
<p>But hear me out, I agree that there ought to be affirmative action in some form, but universities should not allow their admissions standards to deviate so tremendously from race to race. </p>
<p>It sets a BAD example. Minority kids often think that they don’t have to do as much to get into college as their white counterparts.</p>
<p>Seriously? I don’t. ^</p>
<p>Starktony826 </p>
<p>I’m new to this site lol
Ps. Race does matter, for good reasons at that, but it is not everything.</p>
<p>Jeez. Had you been accepted you’d be singing the praises of H. O___o</p>
<p>“It sets a BAD example. Minority kids often think that they don’t have to do as much to get into college as their white counterparts.”</p>
<p>Orly? Sorry. I wasn’t aware that you could read the minds of URM kids.</p>
<p>Just a point of clarification, I don’t appreciate when people call Harvard students all snobby elite and such. That’s just as much of an ignorant overarching generalization as a racist comment.</p>
<p>And as a side note I would like to say that I wholeheartedly support affirmative action based on socioeconomic circumstances. But there shouldn’t be much distinction, for example, between a typical household of 3 with income $50,000 and that same household with income $250,000. Because we have such availability of assistance that didn’t exist a hundred years ago, I don’t think that a household of 3 earning > $30,000 should receive any type of affirmative action at all.</p>
<p>o m g this is way too much fun to watch
all i need now is some popcorn tbh</p>
<p>@alexissss</p>
<p>Yes I would.</p>