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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.
As an Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him. But but he was still shocked when he was rejected by Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.
Wang says he worked incredibly hard and excelled in every area possible. But it still wasn't good enough.
"There was nothing humanly possible I could do," Wang told us, explaining that he felt utterly demoralized after his rejections.
After Wang was rejected from most of the Ivies, he says he filed a complaint with the US Department of Education alleging Yale, Stanford, and Princeton discriminated against him because he was Asian-American.
[...] Wang isn't alone in his belief that the Ivies discriminate against Asians. A coalition of Asian-American groups filed a lawsuit against Harvard University last month alleging the school and other Ivy League institutions use racial quotas to admit students to the detriment of more qualified Asian-American applicants. The more than 60 Asian groups are coming together to fight what they say are unfair admission practices.
[...] He also stressed that he was not just academically driven, but also a well-rounded applicant who maximized his extracurricular activities. He competed in national speech and debate competitions and math competitions. He also plays the piano and performed in the choir that sang at President Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 03 2015, @04:53AM
competitive yes but I don't think the Ivy League is looking for competitive students.
I didn't get very good grades in high school but even so I was accepted to Caltech. Among the reasons was that I am handy with every kind of tool.
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(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @04:55AM
Including your own?
(Score: 1, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 03 2015, @08:05AM
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"Close your eyes," I suggested, then kissed her gently.
"Did you like that?"
She did [kuro5hin.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @03:03PM
That post is not spam. It is offtopic, maybe even troll or flamebait, but definitely not spam.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday June 03 2015, @03:10PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @02:33PM
Newsflash: CalTech is not an Ivy.
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:06AM
Newsflash: The Ivy League is just an athletic conference. CalTech is an extremely selective, well-regarded university. It's as highly ranked as Ivy League universities in many disciplines, and higher-ranked in many other disciplines. For instance, CalTech is #11 in computer science while Harvard is #18, according to US News and World Report. Now, you might say that those rankings don't mean much. I might agree. But, for better or worse, this article and discussion are about admissions discrimination at universities with extremely high name recognition. CalTech and Harvard both have that. Whether or not they deserve that name recognition is immaterial, as is whether they are in the Ivy League.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @06:56PM
Use 0.0.0.0, it's explicitly non-routable. If there's a web server listening on the loopback address you'll still get the same result, but the computer will generate the HTTP request, send it to itself, and respond 404.
For that matter you could use something like Adblock or NoScript or some other content blocker, which would block the request earlier in the pipeline. Alternately, you could use a real DNS block list, or a white list: if you're going to screw with DNS you may as well block *.cn, *.ru, and most of the other TLDs. Balkanizes the web a bit, but that's kinda the direction things are heading anyway.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:06AM
I agree that it should be non-routable but I have the impression that some hosts emit packets to 0.0.0.0 whereas some don't.
There's lots of better solutions than the hosts file but the hosts file is the easiest to understand.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:05AM
Perhaps in a similar way, I was admitted to MIT without the best of grades, just barely in the top 10% of my senior class. Very handy with tools, designed and built a couple of mini-bikes from steel tubing in middle school and volunteered at a semi-pro car racing team in high school. Not the best admission essay, but I think I aced the personal interview with the admissions department in Cambridge--genuine enthusiasm for engineering and problem solving.
MIT might be an honorary member of the Ivy league?