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oakland inner-city public school kid with 5.0 GPA (was told it was possible with A's in AP classes).
I thought this was impossible for an inner-city kid but decided to challenge my concepts & went searching on youtube and found it. I wanted to post this just in case there's people like me reading. I did believe in sterortypes so shoot me. At least i'm willing to change or challenge them. I just got sick and tired of being lied to so decided to check for myself for a change. He's the exception but shouldn't be since this is america. this should be the standard for all kids in america.
I found this in the comment section (which is pretty racist, the comment section).
2100/2400 is in the top 4% of SAT takers, 5.0 has got to be top 1% of AP classes.
SAT ® Percentile Ranks for Males, Females, and Total Group
America's braindrain must be horrible when you look at where gifted kids can be found across these economuc/social barriers. Maybe some people are/were like me so here's this video. If anyone has or know where there are youtubes about kids like this,beating the odds & going to college, can you post the sites? I wasn't sure if this should be posted in the teacher's section asking them. If this is the wrong section can you move it over to the right one? Thanks.
A few comments
1) a 5.0 GPA is impossible unless one goes to a 6.0 scale. Why? the typical class is based on a 4.0, honors classes a 4.5 and AP 5.0. All fantastic students have a mix of these given school requirements. This means the most ambitious students will top out around 4.5 or 4.6 (over their four years). If schools grade post-AP courses on a 5.5 or 6.0 basis, then a 5.0 is possible. Most likely the reporter botched this out of blind acceptance. More likely he got a 5.0 in his final semester, which is great.
2) 2100/2400 is a very good score. If his parents are well-educated, this would still be a good to very good score.
3) More interesting would be to know his AP scores. if they match his grades, then he is the real deal. If they are 3's and 4's in the cored academic subjects, he still has done extremely well. And taking the full account of his application, I would not have been surprised to see him standout on the Ivy radar map.
This is the golden age of university admissions for bright young African American men and women, especially those who are score well on the SAT and do great on the AP Calc, Physics, Science, English, and History exams. 4.0+ GPA, 2100+, 4's on the APs and the nation's best universities will come a-knocking. Why? There are so few in comparison.
I hope young man achieves his pre-Med dreams. He has the right stuff.
Asians need over 200 more points and whites need 100 more points on their SAT to have the same chances of getting into Harvard as blacks. That's called racism
Asians need over 200 more points and whites need 100 more points on their SAT to have the same chances of getting into Harvard as blacks. That's called racism
The Ivy League is mostly Jewish people now especially in the Law, Medical and MBA programs which makes me believe they are the smartest ethnic group in the country now then Asians.
The Ivy League is mostly Jewish people now especially in the Law, Medical and MBA programs which makes me believe they are the smartest ethnic group in the country now then Asians.
Definitely. If Jews are the smartest, they should make up the largest %. The discrepancy between race blind admission schools and racist schools is huge.
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