Chances for Princeton ED

rattle1
Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:50:32 +0000

Mahajan said,




Rich Indian kid from Texan suburbs.
SAT I: 1600 (taken May, 2004) <<




The fact that you are “rich” and “Indian (I assume you have parents from South Asia, India)” will work against you because you are placed in the category of the Asian American applicants, the most overrpresented racial group, even at Princeton at about 13%. Asian Americans, who include Indian or South Asian Americans in this demographic group, are 4% of the American population. Indians from India have the highest demographics indicators, even among the other subgroups of Asian Americans (Chinese, Korean, etc…) in terms family income and parental educational levels. Also, Indian applicants comprise of one of the most stellar academic groups of applicants to the elite colleges. Since admissions is a zero-sum game with race based “diversity”, stellar Asian American applicants are rejected at a higher rate than stellar white applicants. The proof of the pudding is in the relative rates af acceptance for each racial and ethnic groups under the racial “diversity” goals/defacto quota of Princeton. Asian American applicants are accepted at 60% to 70% of the white acceptance rates despite having the same stats and meeting the other stellar holistic criteria for admissions in some of the the Ivies and elite colleges. Studies at Brown and Stanford have proven this. The rates of acceptance in the Ivies are the lowest for Asian Americans and the highest for URMs (blacks, latinos) despite the Asian Americans, as an applicant group, being more stellar in every sense of the word. This would include stellar stats as well as stellar ECs, community service, special talents, national and international awards, recommendations, motivations, and the overcoming of obstacles from being a racial minority.

Mahajan, you are stellar in every sense of the word according to your record, but I would not be suprised that you were rejected at Princeton or Harvard or Yale, because of “diversity” issues and the fact that Asian Americans are overrpresented as a racial group at Princeton, which is generally 10 to 13% Asian American each year. This number represents a defacto quota, but not a numerical quota. Hiowever, the two are really the same.

So, in answer to your question, “What are my chances?”.

We don’t know, but we do know this. Relatively speaking, your chances are the lowest of all the racial and ethnic groups, including whites, simply because you are an Asian American. In this respect, it does not matter how stellar you are, because you are subjected to the goal of racial diversity and a defacto quota from Princeton.