@averagebean smoothie shops are great! For me, I probably want to go to pharmacy school
Seven minutes till Stanford releases their RD Decisions! Wish the seniors luck on the RD thread, they are freaking out!!! http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1789667-stanford-class-of-2020-applicant-discussion-p126.html
@apple1893 The amount of rejected people on that thread scares me! 
I didn’t know UC’s were so brutal! I wish them good luck at institution they decide to attend.
@averagebean Med school for me as well. I’ve wanted to be a cardiac surgeon since I was in 7th grade.
Yayyyy so many fellow med school potential students <33
@apple1984 @ak2018 Apparently, someone got accepted with a 1580 SAT and 3.8 weighted GPA which sounds so fake lol. No one can get in with that. You wouldn’t even be considered unless you paid your way in or interned for Barack Obama or something.
@averagebean Unfortunately, that is just is simply hollistic admissions review at work. Hollistic admissions review, used a lot in the U.S., means that even if your grades and test scores are terrible, other factors of your application can help you. Like, for example, the person could’ve gotten really terrible grades and test scores, but maybe his or her essays were amazing and truly something doesn’t add up. Their essays might’ve even showed the reason for his or her test scores and grades. Overall, hollistic admissions review basically makes sure that while colleges look for certain attributes, like really high GPAs and test scores, those attributes are just two of many that could get you admitted. Where you failed in some areas, you shined in others. And colleges definitely like to see that. I would call it an underdog story!
@averagebean Also I just talked with the guy you were talking about, and this is what he said: yes my essays were very good. I worked on them since junior year had them reviewed by guidance counselors and former members of admissions committee’s. I also had over 1000 hours of volunteer work and I had high accomplishments in my extracurriculars (national champion in my sport 2 years in a row). I do think the holistic review had everything to do with my acceptance.
If he’s telling the truth, then I guess I’m probably right.
@ak2018 I still don’t buy it. However, if he was first gen AND a recruited athlete, maybe.
And probably because he wasn’t Asian. Lol, rip me. I hate that race ALWAYS has to play a part in college admissions.
@averagebean He actually did say he was a underrepresented race minority and was also a first generation student.
“Also I’m URM first generation college student if that helps make sense of it.”
I understand the disbelief, but I feel like he has no reason to lie. I mean, why go through all of that trouble to do nothing more than to t-r-o-l-l a bunch of people who just found out they didn’t get into their dream college? The reasons I could find were to make them feel even worse, or to show other people looking at the thread that even someone with his grades and test scores could get in.
@averagebean Also, he’s “apparently” not even going to Stanford. He turned it down.
“Stanford was my ultimate reach school
Still going to UCLA though I wanna be in SoCal!”
Also, unfortunately, sometimes race really does affect admissions. I just checked the Virginia Tech Race Statistics and it was kind of disappointing, but I expected it. It is Southern Virginia.
Enrollment by Race (Undergraduate)
American Indian or Alaska Native
36
Asian
2,360
Black or African American
950 (This is concerning! :(( )
Hispanics of any race
1,388
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
26
White
17,124
Two or more races
1,126
Not reported
807
Nonresident alien
1,501
Total
25,318
Wow, how shocking! You’ll get in pal, it’s just tech. @ak2018
@savagestudent7 Hopefully. I’m just going to hope that it’s mainly because VT is more of an engineering school. I rarely see any black people in engineering nowadays actually. In fact, at my school’s Robotics club, I believe there were only four black people, including me, and they were are guys.
A little late on this discussion but my dream job is definitely working in the analytics department of a major league sports team. Honestly doing little projects like it right now and I love working with the data so much
@ak2018 No, in fact, black people have an advantage when it comes to college admissions. For example, Princeton gives out bonus SAT points to black people. It’s the Asians that need to score higher, have EC’s that are not the math team, debate team, piano, etc. Otherwise, we’re just classified as a stereotype.
Equality lmao what a joke. That lawsuit against Harvard is a prime example.
@averagebean watch yerself, m8
Ugh I HATE that race has anything to do with college admissions. Or gender or family background for that matter. It should be based on things that you can control, such as grades and test scores
Anyone taking any SAT2s? I’m taking Molecular Biology and US History in June after AP Exams
@averagebean I just looked at the thing you said about Princeton and it actually happens in a lot of other universities. I feel, as a black person myself, giving “supposed” bonus points on the SAT just for being black or hispanic is insulting and demeaning as I feel it suggests intellectual inferiority. Like I couldn’t get those extra 230 points on my own, so I “apparently” need them to be given to me to make it far once I’m compared to my Asian or White counterparts. The same thing happens with athletes, appparently. That literally destroys the purpose of standardized testing. They don’t need to be giving out bonus points being who you are, but for what you can control like @nyuhopeful44. And definitely Asians should not be penalized for doing well in the SAT. Honestly, if they’re willing to put in the time and effort to do well, then good for them.
@ak2018 Asians are not penalized for doing well on the SAT, they simply most score higher then African Americans Mexicans and even Whites, because overall Asians score higher on the SAT. colleges want to diversify their undergrad population, and the fact of the matter is if they didn’t give African Americans “bonus points”, they would be predominantly Asian and white because these races simply do better on the SAT as an overall demographic of course there are exceptions to this. If you want proof take the UC campus which eliminated affirmative action in their universities now UCLA has only a 4.0 percent African american population, elite universities don’t want this to happen