Race in MIT admissions.

Momof2happyboys
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:34:03 +0000

^^Thanks everyone for your input.

And Chris, it’s a comfort to know that colleges indeed are trying very hard to tell those two applicants (examples in my post#7) apart. The majority of my son’s classmates who landed summer internships were by parental connections, others tried very hard without much success.

Many families in my so-called “wealthy” community are actually not wealthy enough to provide extra money for SAT tuition, etc. They are either 1)move into the neighborhood long before the housing boom, or 2)save all the money to buy the house in this wealthy area in order to attend its excellent high school. So they are not as rich as shown on paper; can’t provide “opportunities” like other true rich families. That’s why I always wonder how do colleges measure each applicant’s “utilizing opportunity” into its context.