Academically perfect, subjectively terrible URM applying to HYPMS

Cachorros
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 21:36:30 +0000

■■■■■ or not, ECs are only ways to differentiate yourself - if you truly are a Mexican American with those stats, you’ve already differentiated yourself, there aren’t that many of you that you suffer from the Asian American drone problem.



But does being a MA but suffering from what you call “the Asian American drone problem” make you as undesirable as the people who are not underrepresented minorities?



Perfect SAT, 4.0, 800 Subject tests but lackluster recommendations. I agree, ■■■■■!



How does that make me a ■■■■■? I am book-smart but not an interesting person—though still not smart or high-achieving enough to get into top schools on that alone because I have neither research experience nor olympiad victories.