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Not sure I'm following you on this part. Care to elaborate. Never heard of perfect references or extra curriculars, but then again I never applied to Ivy league schools. What is a perfect reference? One from the Pope.
It was touched on earlier. Consider you are a good chess player, an admissions coach will tell you to join the softball team even if you only play when everyone is hurt. Or violin and piano as your art just puts you in a faceless mob of your ethnic peers
True. Having an Anglo-sounding surname can be misleading. A lot of religious people in the West adopt children, particularly girls who are often abandoned due to the one-child policy and other reasons (cleft palate, deformed limb, etc), from China. Naturally the adopted child has the last name of the adoptive parents.
What you say is true, but in the case of Australia, not that likely. There is little adoption here, less than 400 children are legally adopted each year and most are known to the families. About 35 are from overseas.
What is more likely here is that a student with an entirely Anglo name might have an Australian father and Asian mother, very common.
I noticed that the person who topped the state in Advanced English had a Chinese name and the person who topped Chinese had an Anglo name. Not that that necessarily means much.
Many Jewish people adopted Anglo names as well, including, unfortunately, a bunch in my immediate family.
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