@menefrega, Such assumptions! You really don’t know what his intentions were. Maybe, like SO MANY other applicants, he applied to all the ivy’s in hopes that he would be accepted to just one … and that by some stroke of luck, his family would be able to/would choose to afford that one. He did what SO MANY people do. Instead, he got into all 8. And he got into Fellows at Alabama – something else he didn’t know would happen when he applied. And then, he and his family ultimately decided that the UFE program at Alabama was economically and academically a more practical, more viable, best choice in the end.
Seeing as my family went through a similar process with MIT and the other elite favorite on my son’s list, and that my son ultimately chose the big state public instead, I can easily assume a whole lot of other scenarios than the one, single, self-absorbed scenario that you suggest. (My son is not URM, btw.)
Perhaps all of the URM’s in our country should simply acknowledge their place. There should be special rules for them – limitations to the number of elite schools to which they can apply. I mean, otherwise, they might get in and take someone else’s (white person’s) well-deserved slot! To think that our nation’s URM’s would feel entitled to shoot for the stars and then selfishly choose from amongst their options in the end, as if they were regular people like everybody else. Shameful.