Posted on 04/01/2014 6:43:57 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Seventeen-year-old Kwasi Enin of Shirley took a shot at -- and won -- what amounts to an academic royal flush: He applied to and was accepted at all eight Ivy League schools.
But the William Floyd High School senior said he never thought he'd land slots in the class of 2018 at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. He hasn't decided where he'll attend, but would cross Long Island Sound to attend Yale in New Haven, Conn., depending on the financial aid package offered.
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Imagine this...his PARENTS emphasized education.
re: I do think they are a little overdone on this diversity thing and wish I had done this research beforehand and saved the application fees.
I was think about that as I was reading your post. If you don’t mind saying, how much did you have to spend applying to the 6 ivy league schools?
Generally, blacks who come to this country from Africa, do not care for American blacks, and do not subscribe to their culture.
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It was through the Common application process and my wife made the payment so I am a little vague on it but I believe about $70 each
Yours is an excellent analysis. My only comment would be that applicants to Harvard probably also skew relatively heavily towards Asian, compared to a percentage of the US population.
But your point still holds - your (and my) daughter are still competing for 164 spots from perhaps 10-13,000 white/female/non-athlete applicants.
Very tough odds.
His response, "So What?"
As far as financial aid, it's quite possible that the combined incomes of his parents may drastically limit what he could be eligible for.......
I was pushing for MIT but she visited the campus and thought that they looked like overly stressed Nerd’s - we are very happy with Tufts
You look at some of the student reviews on different colleges
http://www.studentsreview.com/
My 2 nephews went to both Harvard and Yale and a third to Amherst, the diversity thing dominates the atmosphere where all break off into racial/culture clicks topped off with some snobbery. Makes for an unfriendly experience and I do not think my daughter would have been happy at any of them.
Harvard seems the worst, Yale not as bad as the rest but i would take a hard look at where she applies.
Both your points valid and original...at least I haven’t heard them
That’s a great point.
You think you’re kidding,...but......
You should’ve applied... if you were interested in an Ivy, that is.
My son had no intention of applying to an Ivy. When I saw his SAT score, I talked him into applying. My argument was: “Let them reject you, not the other way around. Then at least, years from now, you’ll be able to say you tried.” He expected rejection, and sure enough, he was rejected.
It didn’t cost a penny to apply. I did some research and found that, usually, if you ask for a waiver, colleges will give it because the college’s numbers look better when a greater number of students apply.
The fact is, admission into an Ivy is very competitive. My son applied to only one, and only because it’s located close to where we live. It really wasn’t his first choice; I talked him into applying when I saw his SAT score.
He is largely self-taught (through homeschool), and he scored in the top 1% on the SAT; at ages 16 and 17, he took some courses at a local college and maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA there (in classes such as Calculus); and he was involved in many activities.
But, acceptance into an Ivy was a longshot, to say the least. There are many students with more impressive records. He expected rejection, and indeed, he was rejected.
Yes, probably most of the students who apply to the Ivies are qualified, but with 26,000 students applying, all of them with high SAT scores and high grades, a school has to make some hard choices. The Ivies have to look at the whole picture. I was wondering if the admissions officers would appreciate that my son was self-taught and still scored in the top 1%. But, apparently they didn’t... lol.
This young man (Kwasi) aced 11 AP courses, scored in the top 1% on the SAT, maintained an A-average through school, is a musician and singer, and works in the radiology department at a hospital. There is no doubt that he’s qualified.
Also, I noticed that he was accepted from one Ivy in December, which means he applied early.
So, I say CONGRATULATIONS to Kwasi! I’m sure he will excel wherever he chooses to go.
In the meantime, your daughter and my son and so many other excellent students also will succeed wherever they go.
I understand what you’re saying and I know your son worked hard to achieve what he did.
What hurts these kids is watching those with lower SAT / ACT scores, lower GPS, lower class rankings, those who didn’t work as hard as they did get offered admissions, sometimes with full rides, to universities from which they were rejected. This happened to both my daughter and, three years later, my son.
That’s what angers me.
I believe college admission should be based on merit and not skin color. My daughter asked why she should have worked so hard only to watch as those who didn’t work as hard as she did get offered admission when she didn’t.
I saw the pain this caused her because of completely unfair policies like government-enforced and approved preferences in college admissions and scholarships. Three years later she told me it still hurt.
When AA is in effect, there are REAL people who are hurt as a result of these racist policies.
My son is not hurt at all by the rejection.
The Ivies are considered “reach” schools. The one where he applied has an admission rate of 6%. He expected to be rejected. (For the record, my son isn’t “white.”) It was a long shot chance, but I think everyone who scores high should take that chance.
I’m sorry your daughter was so disappointed. IMHO, the existence of AA hurts everyone, including people it’s supposed to help, because the very existence of AA leads people to question someone’s qualifications. It creates animosity and suspicion among people.
Meh, I wasn’t really that interested. It’s a rather liberal area, and gets cold in the winter. More so than Texas. I looked at Missouri-Rolla (now MO S&T), where my dad went and one of the top engineering schools, but their male-female ratio wasn’t so great, better as an advanced degree school. :p Ended up just going to SMU here in town for a bit.
It sounds like you made the right decision. There are plenty of good colleges out there. :-)
Eh, maybe. Ran into issues with funding for it, the Guard liaison at UTA kinda screwed me over on it. So I’m only up to 67 hours completed, and don’t have the money for the rest of the degree. Oh well :/
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