Rejected or waitlisted everywhere I wanted to attend due to my race

Yeah, I do. Some version of it. More importantly, he is Islam and all about BLM. That’s what Stanford cared about, according to his own account.

I’m guessing he’s getting at least full tuition too. Should I have hidden every liquid penny I had overseas or buried it into a $2 million dollar house and fancy cars so I had very little reportable “net worth?” Should I have encouraged my daughter to write BLM all over her application? Is this what matters the most, especially for a kid who wants to be an engineer or med school or both? What about the causes near and dear to her heart like the special education kids or the depressed, alienated kids or the chronically ill who she committed to serving in deed, not just in word? Do they not count? They are marginalized too. You see, it’s all bull$hit.

Loving the unhinged rants - please continue!

Race should not be a consideration in any aspect of life besides epidemiological data analysis. We have to stop categorizing each other so obsessively and instead be rational.

Except they are not unhinged. They are just the poignant, for you, truth. So you must love the truth, yes?

People are just giving the OP advice, based on reality and truth, however inconvenient for you.

Agree

People from the OC are just the f*cking worst.

I've been following the Harvard case at SCOTUS. There is no doubt the admissions office there raises the bar for Asians (using "personality" as an excuse to do that). If Harvard's doing it you can bet the other selective institutions are doing the same thing to avoid "too many" Asians. Keep an eye on that case. It won't be decided until June (probably too late for you in the current admissions cycle). I think it is likely that both Harvard and UNC will lose that case, and the schools you applied to will be forced to change their policies next time around. Would that give you cause for legal action? Perhaps, but you would be an old man before your case is resolved. Frankly, I like Rice. Take a hard look at Texas. If you like it, make a commitment there. Or, alternatively, take the gap year and try again - your target schools might be more favorably disposed to admitting you. Northwestern and Duke, especially, should be accepting 1580, 36 and top 5%.

wahh you "only" got into rice & wash u - 2 great schools. u sound like a b*tch

Other than the “wahh” part, because this guy clearly got discriminated against, I agree on Rice. Rice is better than Northwestern, arguably as good as or better than Duke, and better than the bottom half of the Ivies.

OP, if you got any money at all or you don’t care, pick Rice. If you are refocusing efforts for next year and money matters to you, focus on quality schools but not elite schools like Davidson, Washington & Lee, Emory, or Tulane. Maybe even Georgia Tech. You might be able to pull a lot of merit.

"clearly got discriminated against" - this is how college admissions work, they are systemically racist institutions. If that's news to you or OP, then sorry to break it to you but I assume anyone smart enough to get into these schools was aware of the racism they would face at the time of applying. So, imo, don't run around crying after.

For me i was waitlisted at Rice & Dartmouth but got into Amherst College, another "good school" so i went there w/o trying to get off the wls. always wondered how my life woulda turned out if i went to rice but c'est la vie.

I def wouldn't complain that I "only" got into Rice...

OP,

You can recognize that you have admissions headwinds and at the same time avoid thinking you are a victim. The people who make these admissions policies believe in victimhood. Don't follow them.

No matter what your politics, thinking of yourself as a victim is a signifiant roadblock to personal development.

Realize that you fortunate to be smart and run with your skills from this mindset.

I’ve already stated ad nauseum that I know they are discriminatory institutions, which is why we avoided applying there.

Anyway, the answer is pretty clear and we are all saying the same thing in Rice, aside from the fact that Houston kind of sucks.

I think you should mostly consider taking the time you need to stop being such a whiny and entitled crybaby loser.

ya very true 🤝

That young man also has already founded at least two organizations and Forbes named him among the 30 top CEOs under 30.

Pack your bags for Rice and move on. You'll be fine if you're everything you say.

Just curious setting aside the OP's individual situation, do you support admissions being racist against Asian Americans?

First, to the guy who said Rice is better than Northwestern, the latter is incomparably better as a research school with very high quality profs, whereas Rice just has high SAT scores and faculty that are above average. Second, Asians are adjusting to admissions methodologies. Previously, Asian applicants (from families that place a lot of emphasis on academics) would absolutely nail the academics in grades and test scores and would often also play one or two instruments really well. When they saw that this was not working for many, and they saw the role that certain sports and certain other categories play in the process, they began to try to fill in those categories (still on the younger stage at this point), and you will see, for instance, a lot more Asian athletes in college in the next ten years. So, the vague personality-based criteria used to reduce their #'s are being combated. Recall that while focus is on the money sports, most recruited college athletes are white and play sports other than football and basketball.