Race in MIT admissions.

anon89723960
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:42:06 +0000

^ I wouldn’t assume that a kid with a 2370 has taken advantage of all the other opportunity around him, or even done a lot at all. There are many people in the world who fixate on things like SATs and then sit at home doing not much else.

And yeah, “Asian” doesn’t automatically mean “has all the opportunity in the world”. The Admissions office knows better than that. The application has a lot more to it than stats and race – because Admissions needs everything to get context.