@ambitionsquared she ranked 3rd in her class and 1st among all the girls. 1st ranking boy goes to Harvard and 2nd goes to Princeton. She wasn’t accepted into any of her top schools and only waitlisted by Brown and JHU. She’s on JHU’s extended wait list right now and I’m sure it’s not going to happen. She’s ready to go to University of Washington’s Honors Program and double majoring in Biology and Violin Performance. She’s already met with her violin professor and is very happy with his teaching. She wouldn’t have chance doing double major if she was accepted into either of the two waitlisted schools.
I’ve read an online report stating that in 2016, there were 19518 female applicants and 12872 male applicant–almost 7000 more girls than boys in the application pool. I’ve noticed that most of the kids admitted from the waitlist are boys. I keep telling myself that my daughter is not lacking of anything, just the school needs to balance their ratio and gives priorities to under represented minorities, first generations, legacy, etc… Being Asian is really a disadvantage.