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After Perfect SAT Score, Philly Senior Waits To Hear Back From College
MyFoxPhilly ^ | Dec 18, 2012

Posted on 12/21/2012 7:11:17 PM PST by nickcarraway

Winning the lottery, lightning striking twice, a perfect SAT score? This last rare occurrence was achieved by one Philadelphia senior who deserves some special recognition.

"I woke up and checked my score on my cell phone and I didn't believe it at first, so I kept refreshing the page and after five to 10 times refreshing I woke my parents up. ‘Mom, dad I got a perfect score!'" Cameron Clarke told FOX 29, remembering the day he found out he was notified of his perfect SAT score.

As we know, SAT's can feel like a make or break moment for students awaiting acceptance letters from colleges.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxphilly.com ...


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1 posted on 12/21/2012 7:11:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Because of that someone else will get the slot. They will take a low score and start adding in how disadvantaged they were and their ethnicity and whatever to get a perfect score plus several points.


2 posted on 12/21/2012 7:17:58 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SkyDancer

What are you talking about?


3 posted on 12/21/2012 7:23:31 PM PST by Hildy (hen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: SkyDancer

hope he doesnt turn out to be a mass murderer , they are saying all these prolific mass murderers lately have been geniuses


4 posted on 12/21/2012 7:26:15 PM PST by KTM rider ( , you'd be lucky to get= $7....LOL !)
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To: Hildy

What I’m saying is that some so-called disadvantaged minority will most likely get the spot instead of the person who scored a hundred on the SAT.


5 posted on 12/21/2012 7:34:49 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SkyDancer

He looks like a Brotha so that counts for something, right?


6 posted on 12/21/2012 7:36:44 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: SkyDancer
He has it covered.


7 posted on 12/21/2012 7:37:32 PM PST by caveat emptor (Scripto ergo sum)
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To: caveat emptor

Black kid with perfect SATs.

He’s going to be very popular.


8 posted on 12/21/2012 7:40:25 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: KTM rider

Bull crap.

They are psychos.


9 posted on 12/21/2012 7:41:24 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: nickcarraway
Winning the lottery, lightning striking twice, a perfect SAT score?

A remarkably idiotic lede.

The first two are pure chance. The last is a combination of high basic ability and a great deal of hard work.

10 posted on 12/21/2012 7:42:16 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: caveat emptor

He sounds like a great kid. Wish more were like him. He strives for excellence in all parts of his life. A winner.


11 posted on 12/21/2012 7:42:41 PM PST by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: SkyDancer

The best part is that you assumed he wasn’t already a minority........


12 posted on 12/21/2012 7:43:40 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ten bucks says that he becomes a “personal injury” lawyer.


13 posted on 12/21/2012 7:44:12 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: SkyDancer

What I’m saying is that some so-called disadvantaged minority will most likely get the spot instead of the person who scored a hundred on the SAT
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He is a Black but with then name Cameron Clarke he better enclose his picture.

Sad part is some one will give him a nifty jacket or spiffy sneakers and one of the others will take them from him, more than likely using force.

Only way to keep them ‘all’ down is start at the top and whittle away so very few of the ‘gifted’ make it out.

Very sorrowful.


14 posted on 12/21/2012 7:45:12 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: nickcarraway

Depending on which source you believe, somewhere between 300 and 1000 kids a year score perfect SATs.


15 posted on 12/21/2012 7:45:12 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Gay State Conservative

Ill take that.


16 posted on 12/21/2012 7:45:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Wyatt's Torch

That I did. But what are the odds? I was being rhetorical. Maybe a bit sarcastic. Usually what happens is what I wrote.


17 posted on 12/21/2012 7:46:58 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: flaglady47
"I woke up and checked my score on my cell phone and I didn't believe it at first, so I kept refreshing the page and after five to 10 times refreshing I woke my parents up. ‘Mom, dad I got a perfect score!'"
18 posted on 12/21/2012 7:51:57 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Gay State Conservative; nickcarraway

Why would you assume something like that? The kid is clearly hard working, and an accomplished musician. Jealous? Did your kids not do quite so well?

I for one wish the kid the best of luck.


19 posted on 12/21/2012 8:01:43 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: flaglady47

He sounds like a great kid. Wish more were like him. He strives for excellence in all parts of his life. A winner.


Well said.


20 posted on 12/21/2012 8:02:23 PM PST by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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