Asian Male In-State EA?

yankeeinGA
Tue, 02 May 2017 14:59:11 +0000

@johnqian for sure there is some edge to URMs, where Asians tend to be ORMs at top schools. I’m not disputing that. And at a school like Tech, it’s true that women, for example, can have somewhat lower objective stats than their male counterparts, as they’re considered URMs. But I’ve not seen anything to suggest that white males get an edge over Asian males, which is part of what the poster in question here was asserting.

I also think that schools where holistic review is so important (I mean, most schools say that’s what they value, but in some cases, not so much) it’s impossible to know for sure why you were accepted or rejected. Here on CC I regularly see students self-rate their essays as a 9 or 10 out of 10 when their posts here are rife with spelling and syntax errors (suggesting that self-assessment of writing ability is… inaccurate, at best).

Personally, I made sure to sit down and talk with my kid during application season about how highly competitive schools are a crapshoot for everyone once you meet the basic metrics. We discussed how it accomplishes absolutely nothing to try to dissect rejections if/when they come. You do your best and then you move on, IMHO.