To Get Into the Ivy League, Extraordinary Isn t Always Enough These Days – WSJ

Kaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.

She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High School near Dallas and will graduate this spring with an unweighted 3.95 grade-point average and as the founder of the school s accounting club. Along the way she performed in and directed about 30 plays, sang in the school choir, scored top marks on the tests she has so far taken for 11 advanced-placement classes, helped run a summer camp and held down a part-time job.

She is extraordinary, said Jeff Cranmore, her guidance counselor at McKinney High School.

Ms. Younger, 18 years old, was cautiously optimistic when she applied to top U.S. colleges last fall. Responses came this month: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern all rejected her.

I expected a bunch wouldn t accept me, she said. I didn t expect it to be this bad.

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Kaitlyn probably did not signal she was woke enough. She should go to Rice, make a crapton of money and contemplate all the student loans she doesn’t have to repay. Instead of what they’re doing, they should make the SAT harder and pick off the very top students for Harvard, Yale, etc. But no, they’ll take 2/3 of their class from legacy admits, affirmative action, athletes, and other less than qualified people. Thus does the USA turn itself into an ossified, dying imperial power.