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.
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Obviously a “cornball” brother. He’s probably not “down for the cause”...
I quite agree.
Which is why he’s going to be very popular. He can no doubt get a free ride at Harvard just for showing up.
Black students with academic potential are very much in demand. And he’s obviously got a lot of potential.
The student who conducted a tour of prospective students through my kid’s preferred university told us his scores, which were 100 points lower that my kid’s scores, but my kid was not admitted. My kid has blue eyes, blond hair, a Christian name and a Welsh surname. Our family has roots in the U.S. since before the Mayflower. The kid with the lower scores was from a foreign country. (And no, it was not Detroit.)
I have known several perfect scorers, strange breed.
“Now, this scholar doesn’t just spend all of his time studying, “music is what takes up most of my time,” Cameron says. He is the principle cellist of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and involved at school as the editor on the school newspaper, a writing advisor in the school’s writing center, senator in the student government, is involved in the math club, and in multiple honor societies.”
Great kid! Maybe he’ll be a role model. I wish him all the best.
“Mom, dad I got a perfect score!’”
Point very well made. The kid had an in-house father. A major necessity in the success of any child throughout their young lives.
Another role model like maybe Dr. Ben Carson. Hope he never falls into the Democrat Plantation's paradigm --
Not really—the SAT isn’t what it used to be.
You do realize that this kid could probably have all the nifty jackets and spiffy sneakers that he want right?
This kid plays the Cello, not usually a instrument owned by the poverty stricken.
He is probably upper middle class at least.
Not all blacks are poor. And an intact black family is unlikely to be poor.
Agreed—great, deserving kid.
“Hope he never falls into the Democrat Plantation’s paradigm”
Like Dr Carson, I think he’s too smart for that.
He is probably upper middle class at least.
Not all blacks are poor. And an intact black family is unlikely to be poor.
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I was afraid I was close to the ‘line’.
I was referring to a parent or relative doing something ‘extra’ nice for him - be it a jacket, sneakers or sports car as a ‘reward’ for all his hard work.
The emphasis I intended is one of the ‘disadvantaged’ will do him harm and I seriously doubt he has been anywhere near the crowd I am referring to but once he gets out in the ‘world’ things may change in a hurry.
Correct, he has probably not went to bed hungry unless he purposely skipped supper.
Cuba Gooding Jr, who played Dr. Ben, did though. And I thought he was a good actor and pretty smart. But so many, like Samuel Jackson and Danny Glover and Laurence Fishburne (who seem to be otherwise fairly bright) have. Philadelphia, though, is right in the center of that "plantation."
BTW I looked up what school he attended. It is a private school and the tuition is just under $30,000 a year.
While no guarantee, I'd wager any intact family will do better economically than a fragmented counterpart.
This speaks volumes, and no further comment.
I coached CYO basketball for many years. Most kids were from the parish school but occasionally there were kids from private or public school. I only ever coached one kid from GA. He was Black and his parents were loaded - they held the end of season party at their home. Parents were both physicians at Jefferson.
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