<p>Mexican engineer whos parents are engineers.</p>
<p>k&s - you obviously don't know how to interpret statistics.</p>
<p>jews are OVERREPRESENTED. Thus, a higher number apply than are in the general population. THUS, it would be a complete and utter fallacy to say that the applicant pool is only 1.5% jewish.</p>
<p>upper middleclass male asian child rapist</p>
<p>No. 26. The athlete thing, in non-revenue sports in particular, kills me, and the Duke case puts it in high relief. Duke recruits lacrosse jocks and gives them some degree of preference in admission. Then when they get to campus and predictably act like jocks (act clannish, exhibit a degree of swagger, etc.) they are reviled and deemed all that is evil in patriarchal mysogenistic society blah blah blah.</p>
<p>i think Matteisn is right. Anyone with a criminal record is in trouble. Preppies would be another favored non-hook group if they aren't legacies or don't have "development" potenital.</p>
<p>They don't ask for "religious views" in the application, but they do ask for your ethnicity.</p>
<p>Oftentimes, people won't even consider the religious background of a person. The person is white, not "white Jewish." Even in interviews I doubt they ask you "are you Jewish."</p>
<p>nidatchi - do you mean to say that being a preppy would be bad if you weren't a legacy or a developemental candidate? just by going to prep school? or... what??</p>
<p>A lot of schools say they are looking for economic diversity. Also, a number of schools have been trying to increase the ratio of public school admits to private school admits. They publish these numbers and seem to be proud of reducing the number of students they admit from private schools. I guess it's PC to take a majority of students from public schools since the vast number of applications come from those schools-- never mind that prep school kids have already self selected (or been selected) already. Nonetheless, all things being equal, colleges prefer the kid from public school. So prep school is a non hook without legacy or development status. Datrmouth admissions, in particular, is rumored to be anti private school.</p>
<p>Somewhere out there there must be a Korean-american student who has as one of his major EC's that he is a high-ranking officer in his local National Rifle Association chapter. Even if the guy is super-responsible and super-normal, the poor guy will be under the microscope. Not fair.</p>
<p>You are so right. Tourguide. This guy would be screwed.</p>
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<p>jews are OVERREPRESENTED. Thus, a higher number apply than are in the general population. THUS, it would be a complete and utter fallacy to say that the applicant pool is only 1.5% jewish.
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<p>blairt - You obviously DON'T know how to USE the RELEVANT and applicable stats.</p>
<p>Asians make up over 5% of the college-age pop. - the % of Asians who make up the applicant pool is significantly higher.</p>
<p>Plus, the admit rate for white applicants is HIGHER than that for Asian applicants; the admit rate for Jewish applicants is significantly HIGHER.</p>
<p>First off, let me just say that even with a ton of anti-hooks you can still get into fantastic schools.... I experienced this myself this past year (attending Vassar!)</p>
<p>Well, I'm a white, upper middle class female from a small private school in southern Connecticut which calls itself a college "prep" school. I'm well-rounded with mostly A's and a few B's, SAT scores of 2100, and average ECs with no real standout point (a few clubs, one varsity sport, a leadership position or three). Furthermore, in my college search, I was fixated on LACs, so being a girl was a negative (rather than for a tech/engineering school). </p>
<p>But it gets better. I'm 100% WASP on one side of my family. Well, that bodes for good legacies, right? Not so. The WASP half of the family wasn't particularly well-to-do which means that, although everyone went to college, no one gave any money. Thus, the "legacy" concept does pretty much nothing... particularly considering that the parental legacy I have on this half of my family went to Bob Jones University. That was a fun one to enter in on the Common App when the ask for your parents's alma maters :-). </p>
<p>And still... there's more. My other parent is Jewish. New York Jewish. And went to MIT. But wasn't big into donating to the school until recently. So once again, the legacy thing is of little importance (not that I really wanted to go to MIT anyway).</p>