Data on UCS: http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data
@sweatearl Data on private colleges: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html (Princeton conducted a study to confirm that “African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points.”)
@sweatearl If you scroll down to average SAT scores by ethnicity, you will see my point: https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2016/9/14/class-2020-survey/
@planner03 No, I got into Chicago because I had a 35 ACT/36 superscore and tied for number one in my class at a top 10 school in Palo Alto, Bay Area. I got one b+ on my midyear report after taking 14 AP classes. I AM a 4.0 student; in fact a 4.4 student. If you’re going to attack my credentials, you must know that I made my own iPhone mobile app startup, was the president of multiple school clubs, won national MUN/ Journalism awards, interned with the Congresswoman and CA state assembly, and was published in state magazines for my three year work with a grass roots organization that trains women for public office.
Please do entertain me on where the “system” benefited me. At least I debate with real statistics from reliable sources and facts outside of assumptions and anonymous posts on college confidential.
I would like to see where you got your data from? @planner03 Since you claim that the 2.5% African American rate is unrelated to the fact that affirmative action is illegal in California. Note that I also said that I AGREE with the concept of Affirmative Action. I have always supported diversity in classrooms because it does stimulate intellectual introspection and conversation. But claiming that Affirmative Action does not exist among private top colleges does nothing to help the OP or anything. Attacking me as an Asian applicant and telling me that I “benefited from holistic applications” is simply absurd given that you are a parent and should be more mature than to attack a high school senior from behind a computer screen for disagreeing with your perspective. If you were a student applying, this would be a different conversation.