Chance my AWESOME friend!

princessbell
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:22:58 +0000

eating food! my cc bff…i get your point. you read her stats a lot differently than I did. I never said I didn’t think she’d get in…but I don’t think it’s surefire at all.

and I really don’t see how my post got labeled as so inflammatory! I wasn’t angry,i just wanted to stick my point of view in…

just a couple more things, not really addressing anyone, just irritating things I see frequently on CC:


didn’t know she was questbridge. although, with that said, a lot of good admissions books have little tricks to get around the fact that adcoms do see your parent’s jobs and can infer how much money you make. How to Ace the College Application tells you to be as vague as possible. I put doctor for my dad, so theoretically he could be a inner-city pediatrician making $80000 or a world-class surgeon pushing a million and yale couldn’t guess. (although he is much much closer in income to the former, and we did check the financial aid box, which excludes the latter by a pretty large margin).
I never said that yale ‘doesn’t pay attention to race’. we all know it does matter, but being a certain skin color doesn’t mean that all of a sudden you’re an amazing applicant. i don’t think that a white applicant with the same stats would have more than an okay chance at Yale, and a black applicant (i think) would have only a small boost. This doesn’t take her app from just okay to surefire in. but again, this is just my opinion…I’m not big on chance threads to begin with.
I hate it when people say that “they know” something about the way the admissions process works just because they’ve seen certain people get in/get rejected blah blah blah. That’s like saying “I know how cancer works because I’ve seen some people go into remission and some people die”. (bad analogy, but whatever. It sort of works :)) The fact of the matter is none of us knows much besides the fact that people send in applications and get decisions a few months late. You may know a kid’s SAT scores, GPA, and rank, but you don’t know their teacher recs or essays or short answers or interviews or any of that besides what they tell you.


You can’t just say things like “a black kid with a 1200 got in and my friends with 1600’s didn’t” because 1) when you say stuff like “a black kid” instead of “my black friend” or “my asian bff”, it implies that you don’t even know them, which upsets me because you’re talking about people you don’t even know and 2) you most likely didn’t read their essays/teacher recs and you definetely weren’t at interviews etc.

this is why i hate chance threads! because none of us know!

*okay, i reread this before posting it and i realize that i do sound angry using words like “i hate” and “this upsets me”. but i’m calm! I promise! :)