post your "qualification" here for the rejected

jsd472
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:37:04 +0000

Your son should have applied to Caltech. They typically admit students who “deserve” it. (high test scores, show they love math and science, etc.) As BPKO43 said, MIT admissions are wacky and not always merit-based. Truly, there’s more affirmative action for blacks and hispanics then “direct” discrimination towards whites and asians. I met one of these such students when I visited Boston. His mother also happened to work at MIT. (not as a professor, however)