<p>In reply to this:
"Invasiondays, I seriously doubt it’s your activities or essays. Activities or essays may help your application, but it won’t bring back the dead. No offense, but the reason why I think you got in was because you’re gay. Grades and test scores don’t count as much for you as they do for straight, Caucasian or Asian students.
It’s called affirmative action.</p>
<p>Suppose you have 8 different students with same stats and activities. All wrote extraordinary essays.
Each of the students is a member of 1 of the 4 races.
Each of the students is either gay or straight.
Each student can not have the same combination as the other student.
In theory, the ‘favorability’ chain goes like this:</p>
<p>Gay blacks > straight blacks > gay Hispanics > straight Hispanics > gay Caucasian > gay Asian > Straight Caucasian > straight Asian</p>
<p>The ones at the top are the most favorable. It goes downwards from there.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m not accusing you of being ‘under-qualified’. My personal essay made me look like a gay Asian when I’m actually straight. I think that’s why I got picked. I hear Vassar likes gay people. I think that’s why I also got into Wesleyan, which also favors gay people."</p>
<p>I disagree with you. Without this essay, I would have looked really normal and heterosexual. I am an Eagle Scout, I play three varsity sports, I am active in my church, I volunteer, and am involved in three music ensembles. I do more than this but I don’t feel like babbling. </p>
<p>My GPA and Course Selection are very good, its just my SATs that stunk. </p>
<p>Anyone can be gay. There is no reason they would admit me for that. I described (quite well, my teacher cried when she read it…) how being gay has shaped me as a person in my conservative hometown. My Why Vassar essay rocked, and my Your Space gave the admissions committee a precise look onto who I REALLY was. </p>
<p>I’m offended you think they admit students based on sexual orientation. I worked INCREDIBLY hard on my application to compensate for my SATs and it showed.</p>