parentologist:
Every year, there are news stories of high achieving AA males who get into EVERY Ivy, plus every tippy-top school. Sometimes there are sweet stories of all 4 quadruplet AA males all getting into Yale. There is never a story of a white or Asian applicant who has this experience - at least I’ve never seen one.
Not 8 Ivys, but HYPSM + 4 UCs:
<p>This local kid did something pretty amazing, even by CC standards:</p>
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Lloyd Chen can't afford the $70 for a high school yearbook. His family can't pay for a graduation party or a trip abroad.</p>
<p>But the Laguna Creek valedictorian has something his fellow graduates don't: nine full-ride offers to elite universities.</p>
<p>The Elk Grove teen graduating today with a 4.79 grade-point average achieved the rare feat of acceptance by all nine schools to which he applied: Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Davis.<br>
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<p>Elk</a> Grove teen goes 9 for 9 in elite college admissions - The Sacramento Bee </p>
parentologist:
So if there are parents of AA students who are class of '24 who have tippy-top or Ivy aspirations, especially if they are in need of the great loan-free fin aid that they may offer, yes, it might make sense to apply for the '23 cycle, to take advantage of the racial preferences currently in effect.
Of course, leaving high school early is a big shift, and not necessarily to the student’s advantage academically, socially, and in college admissions. Indeed, for many students, the cost may be greater than any possible gain from getting into a slightly more selective college (e.g. Harvard versus Cornell) that is the goal.
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