<p>I wish you all would just stop whining and get over yourselves. Really.</p>
<p>Meh…AA can get you pretty darn far in the admissions process. My favorite was someone of Native American ancestry with a 24 on their ACT (did worse on their SAT) and was admitted to Columbia ED. One of my other friends of Germanic descent with a 36 on her ACT and NUMEROUS national level awards (USABO, etc) was actually deferred from Columbia ED. I filled out my app with the first friend and she was not a “stand out” applicant as I could see it. However, even if she was, I dont that any white or asian applicant would be able to enter Columbia with a 24 on the ACT.</p>
<p>Hey I met those quadruplets on old campus during Bulldog days. During the twister game that never was.</p>
<p>This thread was a fun read, and yes I am african american, if being jamaican counts anyway.</p>
<p>I think they were viewed as one person, in a sense. If it was one of them applying, his/her application wouldn’t have been impressive, but the fact that there were four of them was what really distinguished them.</p>
<p>It’s like having the ultimate hook, if you know what I mean. PLUS, they’re URMs. So the acceptance isn’t that surprising when you think about it.</p>
<p>The only way it could have gone down was this:
A) only one was accepted.
OR
B) all four were accepted, because they’re viewed holistically as one. </p>
<p>Fortunately for them, the latter was the case.</p>
<p>They’re all great students in itself, but it seemed to me that it was all four of them as a whole that made them unique and stand out more. I’m sure they stressed the whole quadruplet thing a lot in their applications.</p>
<p>The only shame about this is that they publicized it too early (Well, not a shame for the family, but for Yale). Other prestigious schools (Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, every Ivy, etc.), probably offered all four of them better financial aid, seeing as the family has now announced to the world they’re looking for schools that will offer them cheaper education.</p>
<p>“You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: ‘now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.’ You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe you have been completely fair… This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.” -Lyndon B. Johnson</p>
<p>When applying to any ivy school the chance of gaining admittance is slim. Everybody complains about AA, when in reality, many of the spaces are taken up by the upper crust of society. Just read “The Price of Admission”. This book puts the elusive ivy education into perspective. Just be positive, try your best and buy a lottery ticket. Who knows you may get lucky.</p>
<p>that’s insane…</p>
<p>Well I thought I had a little better than a lottery ticket but I got the big deferred SCEA. Better than total rejection though but it feels a lot like it.</p>
<p>naaaiice!!</p>
<p>Oh the future looks so bright . . . . -__-</p>