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top 2% is nothing for the top 3....namely Harvard, Yale & Princeton....now in Shirley LI...its even not as great school district. Rank #11 is pretty low to get accepted to the school listed above. His SAT isn't very high for the top 3 Ivys. If race wasn't a factor, he is def qualified for the rest of the IVYs just judging his rank & SAT.
it would be funny if kids entering these colleges would take women's studies or history as their major. oh wait. they do. and then they have a 200k loan to pay back in what would have cost a dollar fifty in late fees at the public library. ivy or not, math is math and science is science. if you play your cards well, a kid from community college can score great internships if he or she has talent. the ivy brand name definitely matters as networking will help but not at the cost of that tuition. if you are great, you will eventually be great regardless. your hard work and talent will show through at some point. luck and choices do factor in and i suppose kids are willing to pay 200k for the networking foundation they will lay for their futures.
also, if i am white and born in a country in africa, am i african american? and this kid was not born in africa. he is generations removed from that continent. why don't they just call him black in the media? i don't get it.
let me tell you guys a story. i went to grad. school (barf. i studied a ******** (translation: garbage) major) with a black girl who told her friend a story. she applied to harvard with her counselor in high school and was accepted. she instead chose howard university (a university for mostly blacks) over harvard. she told us that her guidance counselor was furious for rejecting harvard. needless to say, her choices landed her with me in a classroom. and i am not qualified to attend harvard (too lazy to study mounds of definitions and stuff i have no interest in just to get in). imo, she did herself a huge disservice by not going to harvard. even without scholarships, a 200k loan is well worth it if you enter a lucrative major, especially if you are talented in law or finance or medicine.
on the flipside, if blacks had nuclear families and less glamorization of gang culture, i know they would do well in school. my nephew had a friend in high school just last year who was very smart (a black kid) and scored well on the specialized high school placement exam but was kicked out of brooklyn tech high school (the school where deblasio's son goes) because of his behavior. the kid had no father. he instead ended up in a really bad/dangerous school and that was fine with him because that was "normal." for me, his future was severely harmed if not ruined. all because of lack of guidance. nothing to do with ability.
Last edited by Hairy Guy; 04-02-2014 at 09:44 AM..
it would be funny if kids entering these colleges would take women's studies or history as their major. oh wait. they do. and then they have a 200k loan to pay back in what would have cost a dollar fifty in late fees at the public library. ivy or not, math is math and science is science. if you play your cards well, a kid from community college can score great internships if he or she has talent. the ivy brand name definitely matters as networking will help but not at the cost of that tuition. if you are great, you will eventually be great regardless. your hard work and talent will show through at some point. luck and choices do factor in and i suppose kids are willing to pay 200k for the networking foundation they will lay for their futures.
also, if i am white and born in a country in africa, am i african american? and this kid was not born in africa. he is generations removed from that continent. why don't they just call him black in the media? i don't get it.
Agreed, and I figured he was a first generation of African immigrants.
also, if i am white and born in a country in africa, am i african american? and this kid was not born in africa. he is generations removed from that continent. why don't they just call him black in the media? i don't get it.
top 2% is nothing for the top 3....namely Harvard, Yale & Princeton....now in Shirley LI...its even not as great school district. Rank #11 is pretty low to get accepted to the school listed above. His SAT isn't very high for the top 3 Ivys. If race wasn't a factor, he is def qualified for the rest of the IVYs just judging his rank & SAT.
He's qualified enough, but those schools get lots of qualified applicants. It becomes down to nearly random luck whether the school will accept, it's rather unusual for all of the Ivies to have accepted him. Still, why apply to eight Ivies? A waste of application fees.
Wonder if he is concerned about how hip hop is doing in NYC?
could be, but not enough to derail his goal. anyone can enjoy gangsta rap but that's all it is. a passing pleasure, not a lifestyle. this kid had excellent role models in his parents and great guidance and of course he made good choices. you can still mess up even with good surroundings.
NY post said his essay was the key reason for his acceptance. Good essay
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