gkalman, I really did not mean to cause emotional arguments about this article but regarding the statement, “If you based that statement on the story mentioned, it was at least a major reach to say that.”, I have to completely disagree as it is quite plain to me from the article. If you read differently than I did, it is your prerogative but you should not impose your opinion to dispute how others read.
@gkalman I too understand both sides of this coin and it isn’t an easy question to answer. It will be interesting to me to see how the Harvard lawsuit resolves this question that deals with handicapping based on race. If you haven’t followed it they in fact give negative points to asians and positive point adjustments for other races.
As a parent it’s highly frustrating and mind blogging how your child with high stats would be denied because they are Asian.
As I mentioned before, most of high ranking colleges face dilemma dealing with high number of Asian students while trying to achieve racial diversity. While on paper they say otherwise, they have no choice but to set different standards for different races to satisfy their diversity goals. Harvard is unlucky to be under spotlight but, as far as I can see, this is pretty widely prevalent practice among all colleges where there are disproportionately large number of Asian applicants.
It might as well be a lottery! Your kid gets a ball for every high stat(GPA, Test score) and then others will get a ball for being in a certain socioeconomic category, another ball for first gen, another ball for certain race, etc. then all the balls your kid gets is thrown in to be picked.
@gzza73 Yep. I think it is basically what it currently is.
@gzza73 I equate more to… Let me sell you a Rolls Royce for $1 but first you have to win the lottery 
wait list at Davis and Santa Cruz with 4.1 and 34. So not good news for the others !
“Harvard is unlucky to be under spotlight” is true and not true. It is true because it is picked as a representative of a large number of universities knowingly discriminating Asian students using subjective and subconsciously biased personality evaluation to bring Asian students admission “scores” down in order to favor the white and others by their race or group identity based on stereotypical classification instead of looking each applicant’s individual true personality and academic merit. It is not true as Harvard is one of the very first universities to blatantly and shamefully implement the super biased personality evaluation and later other universities follow its practice silently and quietly. In this sense it is deserved to be put on the spotlight and be repudiated.
Another important aspect is that personality can be fake and can be exaggerated easily since there is almost no way to verify its truthfulness by just looking at the essay and ECs reported.
@peleton I think you have to to consider your major and the spots available among other things than just Scores and GPA.
Hello everyone, any international engineering applicants here? it feels like we have been waiting for soo long…
do you get to choose which college?? when when do we figure out if we are accepted??
which UCs have the best surf teams?
@coolweather thanks!
@Californiasurfer are you looking to join the surf team at UCSD? If I get in and decide to go, I might join too 
No, you are assigned a college. It will tell you which college you are in in the acceptance letter.
@omnom2169 I am an international engineering applicant from india - I am really stressing out regarding decisions
So … do u all think UCLA, UCSD, UCI will come out Friday ???
I think UCLA and UCSD will definitely come out on Friday. They have always come out on a Friday, and UCLA has been confirmed by the UCLA forum champion, I have a good feeling about San Diego, and some people claim UCI will turn the tables and release today which I wouldn’t count on considering Irvine always releases on a Friday.