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17-year-old accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges (usatoday.com)

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[–]jonesrr 48 ポイント49 ポイント 前

sighs I was hoping he wasn't going to be black.

[–]DonTago 42 ポイント43 ポイント 前

You knew he would be. Ivy league universities (and major employers) are bending over backwards and going out of their way to attract and enroll educated children of diverse backgrounds, especially POC. These univiersities have 'racial quotas' they are pressured to meet, so no surprise this kid was accepted to every single ivy-league school in the country; he is a hot commodity. Not to say he isn't a smart or driven young kid, but that is a bit much.

Edit: clarity

[–]jonesrr 20 ポイント21 ポイント 前

2250/2450 on the SAT def isn't impressive to the point he'd get into HYPS without being black or Native American that's for sure. I knew a guy with perfect SAT/ACT and two SAT IIs back in HS that didn't get into any of them (they called him the triple crown), and that was around a decade ago now.

I was hopeful prior to reading the article that he had just done something so incredible already that he deserved it (found a gene sequence that led to a therapeutic cure for a type of cancer, or built a Q positive fusion reactor in his garage).

[–]InternetFree 27 ポイント28 ポイント 前

He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Island's south shore. That puts him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of 2,400 points

Pretty sure all non-black people who ranked higher than him and had just as many points weren't accepted at all those 8 universities.

[–]jonesrr 20 ポイント21 ポイント 前

Statistically, not even a single one of them should have gotten into HYP. There's not enough room at HYP to accept every valedictorian in the USA, which is obviously something they don't want to do anyway.

This asian kid who plays Beethoven Concerto No. 4 entirely from memory for the Boston Philharmonic may have a shot, if he got at least in the 98th percentile on the ACT and SAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItuH5oc48l8

[–]InternetFree 18 ポイント19 ポイント 前

Asians have an even harder time than white people to get into top schools.

American educational systems are perverted and really not in a good way. Especially as the educational standards of top universities are pretty low compared to those of other countries, despite them always being top ranked internationally due to the funding (and therefore research opportunities) they receive.

[–]john1g 2 ポイント3 ポイント 前

Yea I know a kid in HS a couple years ago with a slightly higher SAT, perfect ACT, and 5 SAT2 with perfect scores and impressive extracurriculars and got rejected to HYPS.

[–]singularityJoe [score hidden] 前

Agreed. I had a 2300, sat 1, 2 perfect sat 2s, ranked 6/376, completed a research internship at binghamton university in the summer of junior year, and I got waitlisted at harvard and rejected by yale and princeton. Thankfully I got into Brown.

[–]bobartig -4 ポイント-3 ポイント 前

IIRC, SAT IIs were a joke back in the day. I took like six of them in highschool and the lowest score I ever got on one was like a 790/800.

[–]jonesrr 5 ポイント6 ポイント 前

I think there are less than 50 people a year that have perfect scores on 2 tests + ACT + SAT. Regardless of the relative difficulty of any one test.

[–]john1g 0 ポイント1 ポイント 前

Well I don't know how the sat2 tests were in the "day." But the subject tests i found were harder then the corresponding subjects for the AP exams. And you really have to be committed to get even a good score.

[–]SoFarRghtCantSeeLeft 7 ポイント8 ポイント 前

And this is reverse discrimination at its finest extent in today's world.

[–]K3R3G3 6 ポイント7 ポイント 前

Unfortunately, it effectively results in regular discrimination of the person better qualified who is of a different race whose place was taken by him. That is grossly unfair. And it happens all the time at all, or almost all, universities. And at tons of jobs/careers. Anyone want to list more examples of places where better qualified individuals get rejected, resulting in lost opportunity through no fault of their own, for this bullshit?

[–]InternetFree 8 ポイント9 ポイント 前

This isn't only a problem with race but also gender.

My school (technical unversity) gives significantly more support to women (with women-only scholarships, etc).

Yeah, I totally get it, there should be more women in the sciences but FUCK achieving that goal through discrimination. Parents need to start treating their children equally and schools, too. All this nonsense like "female-only support" or support for minority is total garbage.

However, for minorities I understand the argument that first there needs to be free (and mandatory) education and basic income. For women? Not so much.

[–]jianadaren1 4 ポイント5 ポイント 前

Gender is even weirder: there are more women than men in American Universities.

That'd be like affirmative action in favour of men in the military.

[–]jonathan88876 [score hidden] 前

There is affirmative action for men in the military: they are recruited far more aggressively

[–]jianadaren1 [score hidden] 前

Unless you're implying that that aggressive recruitment includes preferential signing bonuses (analogous to scholarships) or lowered standards (e.g. evidence that more female recruits are rejected more frequently), then that does not apply at all.

If Harvard merely "recruited" a group without offering any advantages ("Please apply so we can reject you!"), then that would most certainly not be considered AA.

[–]notreddingit 2 ポイント3 ポイント 前

reverse discrimination

Am I missing something here or is it just discrimination?

[–]forensic_anus 0 ポイント1 ポイント 前

It is. reverse racism, sexism ageism are all just racism, sexism or ageism.