Rejected Stanford SCEA: Chances at Harvard?

jamescchen
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:42:10 +0000

“It’s possible that Henry Park looked like a thousand other Korean kids with the exact same profile of grades and activities and temperament. [I could] understand why a university would take a celebrity child, legacy, or development admit over yet another textureless math grind.” - Marilee Jones, ex-MIT Admissions Director on why a Korean-American applicant to [insert school name here] was rejected

Try to fight that. But Asian-American kids do succeed in large numbers. They just have to try harder, or make themselves look “different” than the stereotype. How do you convince someone that you are not a robot, but without actually saying: “I am a human being, not a robot!”? That’s the $64,000 question.