<p>it could be true because she is a minority( African American). they need to take quotas. now i wish her good luck at Yale! she will struggle…</p>
<p>Why do you guys think she is so stupid? Besides a low SAT, she’s got good stats.</p>
<p>Note that the student is 1st gen, URM and perhaps attends an underserved HS. This would account for a bump on test scores. Probably more problematic is the UW gpa which is pretty low for Y, but maybe there was a strong upward trend.</p>
<p>There’s no way of telling what the AOs read that doesn’t show up on a summary like this. It’s one outlier data point that should not be considered the norm, but it isn’t totally unbelievable either.</p>
<p>Was she a QuestBridge Match? She might have written about a family history of abuse or homelessness or something else that would explain her low SAT and GPA.</p>
<p>^good speculation.</p>
<p>the applicant did have “rocking essays”; That might be another factor.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that person just made it up out of boredom. Consider the environment and probably lack of educational opportunities that most of us had.</p>
<p>Anyway the fact that we are even discussing how this person got in and thinking that she might be fake is truly sad…</p>