But they don't don't have the massive endowments and consequently give less financial aid.
Posted on 04/06/2015 2:03:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Harold Ekeh has a very tough decision to make.
The 18-year-old Long Islander has waited anxiously for weeks since sending off his college applications.
But he didn't expect this.
Harold has been accepted by every single one - including all eight Ivy League schools.
It comes a year after another high schooler from Long Island, Kwasi Enin, was met with the same news. He chose Yale....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Interesting. I worked with a young man from Ghana maybe 25 years ago. He was a Southern Baptist and I just loved the guy. He was extremely conservative and wanted to return to Ghana and push free enterprise.
I don’t think Black Africans are necessarily better than Black Americans but this guy was really exceptional. I sometimes wonder what ever happened with him.
2,400 I beleive
seconded.
Well done to him but also to his parents for always being there and how they raised him.
I think the perfect score is now 2400 with the writing piece.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/04/pf/college/immigrant-accepted-all-ivy-league-schools-harold-ekeh/
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Ekeh was born in Nigeria and came to the United States when he was eight. He wrote his main college essay about the struggle to adjust, including being clueless in U.S. history classes at school. He said he would ask his parents repeatedly why they moved.
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hear hear!
I don’t think either of these girls are their offspring. Especially Sasha.. WHERE ARE HER REAL PARENTS?
We'll tell the Africans that they're ebola workers.
Or we'll give the Dindu Nuffins' guns and tell them to go rob Boko Haram.
>>However, if he’s really ready, I couldn’t be more happy for him.<<
Benefit of the doubt time IMHO.
His quals seem pretty solid.
Ivy league schools can get you a good job but seeing the kinds of grads they’re spewing out nowadays I would stay well clear of them unless you want your kid walking around praising commies, loving terrorists and bashing “the great Satan” USA.
Mr. Ekeh said:
“I came over with a very heavy Nigerian accent, but I did everything I could to integrate. Learning American history was really hard but I was determined to tackle it so I signed up for AP History as a junior.”
Appears to be an exceptional young man, properly acknowledged and rewarded. Congratulations - good on him.
“Ain’t being a minority great?”
He earned a 2270 on his SAT.
He can write his own ticket, minority or not.
*bangs head on wall*
2270 SAT looks good no matter the race.
Elated, his mother Roseline, who now works for a human resources agency in Queens, posted on Facebook: 'All glory to the most high God!!!' His father Paul Ekeh, who works in the NYPD's traffic division, spoke to DailyMail.com to describe the moment he found out. 'It was like a thunderbolt,' he said. 'I didn't doubt that he could achieve good things but it was the sweep that made it so different. I don't know how to say how I feel. It's amazing.' Sharing the news of his son's achievement on Facebook, Mr Ekeh wrote: 'Bless the LORD... Congrats Son, in Jesus' name!!'
It must be because of white privilege.
Yup. They’re black until the MSM find out they’re from post-colonial Africa. Then they’re (whatever European country came before them).
(do I even need an /s?)
Especially if they are self-made men, since that is a BIG no-no in their eyes...
Props to this kid. I tip my hat off to him.
But they don't don't have the massive endowments and consequently give less financial aid.
The current perfect score on the SAT is 2400.
It used to be 1600, when the SAT had only two parts: Math and "Verbal". Now the "Verbal" has been updated to have two parts: "Reading" and "Writing". The Reading is a multiple choice, like the old verbal. The writing requires writing (which, inevitably includes subjective judging which seems to go against the whole idea of a standardized test)
My son had a 1580/1600 on his SATs, was third in his high school class of 600+, and didn’t get into the 3 Ivys where he applied.
The competition for Ivy's is very tough now. Acceptance rates at the top ones are around 5%. The vast majority of those applying have great board scores and grades. I've seen kids with 8 AP exams, all 4s and 5s, not get in to schools.
Yet, another young man in the class, well below my son on SAT and class rank, got into every Ivy he tried. One of these students is not like the other one...........
Schools are caught between a rock and a hard place. If they admitted on a pure true meritocracy, based only on board scores, for instance, they would end up with lots of Asian and Jewish kids and lots of lawsuits from the others. We would have demands that the test be changed (and I wonder if the addition of the writing part of the SAT was partially to make this happen in some hidden way), and accusations that the tests are racist, etc. You already know.
Now they try to take race into some account, but not overwhelming. The Ivy's don't want to lower their standards, but they want to have a good percent of black students. Thus, if you are a black who is qualified on the merits to go to the school you are extremely valuable to them - they can meet both their diversity goals and keep their academic standards, if they get you to attend. That's why 12 out of 12 Ivy's took this kid, I would guess.
If you are that good as a non-minority applicant you go from a 1 in 20 chance of getting in to 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 or something, so you probably aren't going to run the table on getting admitted at that level.
As you move down the ladder of perceived academic excellence (notice the work "perceived" - it may well be that some private religious colleges, or even large state schools are highly excellent in some areas, and exceed most or all of the Ivy's, but they don't show up on "top colleges" list very often) there are not enough qualified minorities, so that's where you get the more crude affirmative action like lower scores required for blacks. Places like Harvard and Yale really don't want to do that, so they look for brilliant Nigerians with near perfect board scores. Still, they are being sued by Asians and Jewish kids, who claim that they are discriminated against by the Ivy's taking less qualified blacks (and whites, possibly, I haven't seen the law suit, only read about it).
It's a mine-field that has been designed for them. I don't envy them the job of sorting it all out.
I also believe that board scores and grades are legitimately not the only thing that private colleges look at, or should look at Extra-curricular activity, sports, music, work, are all important factors in admitting someone. Any college that only admitted on board scores I think would end up a pretty boring place, with only one type of student (the droid).
The Mandarin system of ancient China worked to move the smartest, as defined by standardized tests, into government service. The result was a stagnant and stultifying bureaucratic society. As an extreme example.
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