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Originally Posted by McLovin
So what happened with his college applications, how did it turn out?
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He ended up with an SAT score of 1562 IIRC.
PSAT score of 1470
ACT score of 35.
He received the athlete-Scholar award at his high school and a special achievement recognition award from the state of California Senate. Huge thing, gaudy but neat.
Gradumacated summa kum laude.
But that wasn't enough to get him accepted to UCLA which is where he wanted to go.
He was kind of bummed but they were cool about it, he was simply too white and too rich and too local.
A friend of the family works there and told us if he was a non-resident he would have gotten in. Same story if he were poor or had a different complexion.
We were told there were not enough spaces allotted for that category and they were all spoken for by people who were connected.
Oh and the Hispanic thing gets discounted if the last name is not Hispanic.
We didn't do any politicking at all. In hind-sight I could have made some phone calls or written to some folks to help the cause but didn't think it was necessary.
He ended up getting offers from 5 different UC schools and Cal poly.
3 of the UC schools offered $10k regent scholarships, he ended accepting the offer from UC San Diego.
Fine school, especially for undergraduate work.
He starts school next month.
There was a time when all he talked about was cal tech but his interests changed from physics to mechanical engineering over the past 10 years.
He toured the campus twice but just wasn't all that enthused.
