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

karen rodgers wrote:

Absolutely not. But the people who complain the most about college admission being unfair are average white kids, and they don't realize that if it wasn't for discrimination against Asians, they'd really, really be down bad. They don't know how good they have it.

Either way, colleges should be making decisions based on who will make their campus a better place and nothing more. Academics are a part of that. But no campus should want a whiny, entitled loser like OP who brings nothing to table other than studies over someone who is perhaps less academically successful but has hobbies, is well-adjusted, demonstrates an interest in joining the campus community, and so on.

Said another way, this kid isn't being discriminated against -- he just doesn't bring anything to the table other than something that a lot of other kids also have. Boo hoo hoo.

tttt2 wrote:

seriously dude wrote:

You're ridiculous, and nobody should have sympathy for people like you. You didn't get in because, while qualified academically, you don't stand out from the thousands and thousands of others just like you, for reasons well beyond race.

I went to UChicago, where everyone was just like you plus some incredible talent--published a novel, International Math Olympiad, startup founder, etc.

So stop blaming your rejection on your race, go to one of the excellent other schools you got into, and make the best of it. And good for the Ivies, etc. for avoiding your sh*t attitude.

That's a good lecture to tell a black person. It's time they stop whining and listen to you.

xczvzcxv wrote:

There are big, material differences between the kinds of research that you have access to at various schools with graduate programs, but you wouldn't know that without familiarity in such areas. You can get into graduate programs from just about any undergraduate. All you need to do is to be outstanding and impress three profs a lot. Many of those top grad students come from no name undergrads. But make no mistake that your education is not very similar with the kinds of faculty at top Ivies, Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, on the one hand, and places like Rice on the other. The SATs are all about the same (not counting Cal, they are 1520-1530) but some profs are current or future Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer winners, etc., and the Rice profs are not typically going to be close to that level.

I am on Gmail wrote:

Why would admissions care if you had a bad race?

sbeefyk2 wrote:

First off, even if affirmative action were to be banned, schools are favoring underrepresented communities of color. Nothing will change. For instance, the UC system just gave UCLA’s nursing program $700k to use to admit non white students.

Anyways, this is the mindset that got Trump elected and I think it will get worse as a larger proportion of the country believes they are being discriminated against. Whether it’s true is irrelevant because perception is reality.

52345 wrote:

SAT's are not everything. As a former HS guidance counselor, I know colleges are looking for a "whole student" Do you volunteer? Give back to your community? Are you someone that is involved in programs that this college is a big supporter of? In short, why would we (the college) want you as one of our graduates? What would you do for our name?

Alexi Santana wrote:

Should have used a fake name implying you’re Hispanic but not specified your ethnicity. That’s how I got into Princeton