Flopper
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It's the admission policy. At Harvard, there's no absolute SAT requirement and there is no SAT score that guarantees admission. If your score is high enough and your grades are high enough, you will be considered. However, the selection process is subjective. The application contains a number of essay questions that cover more than just academics. The school requires reports from the applicant's teachers and the school. In others words, grades and test scores will flag your application for consideration.Well, you can't know that can yew? The question is with perfect scores, why he was not accepted. Were others with lesser scores accepted?With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, Michael Wang applied to seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013.
An Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him. But he was still shocked when he was rejected by Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.
Being Asian actually increases your chances of being accepted into an American university due to affirmative action policies.
It sounds like this entitled try hard is just butthurt that he didn't get accepted, and is trying trying to offload accountability by playing the race card.
Harvard like most Ivy League Schools that Wang applied, use a formula to give preference to minority applicants that have near identical qualifications to other applicants.
The bottom line is the top schools in the country use test scores and grades to qualify your application for further consideration. What happens after that depends on the school.
Most of the schools that Wang applied to have a rather high percentage of Asian students, 19% to 24% so it would seem that claiming discrimination based on race would be difficult to prove.
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