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Teenager accepted by all 20 top-ranked universities he applied to — with full scholarships
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| 4/2/18
Posted on 04/04/2018 7:10:51 AM PDT by BBell
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To: AlaskaErik
Yup - Great scores for certain and congrats to the kid. But a white kid would have only made it into 6-8 of those colleges, with a scholarship at maybe 1. An Asian kid would have made it into 2-4 of those colleges with 0 scholarships.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:42:39 AM PDT
by
rb22982
To: C210N
Hmmm??? He must be able to run a 4.2 forty.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:43:03 AM PDT
by
FiddlePig
(The biggest threat to your sacred liberty is to not value it!)
To: BBell
If I could do it again the same way, I’d mess it up all over again.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:43:13 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: BBell
It costs money to apply. Who applies to 20 schools?
I'd turn him away for being indecisive.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:43:46 AM PDT
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: BBell
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:44:12 AM PDT
by
Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: Junk Silver
I read a story on the number 1 public school in the country, UC Berkeley, a while back. Apparently, it’s almost impossible for them to get the top academically qualified black high school boys because private universities offer them full scholarships. There are a few more black girls with good grades so they do get some of them.
Kids like this guy are nearly as highly recruited as a 5 star football player.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:45:52 AM PDT
by
lodi90
To: CptnObvious
Hasn't been that way in a long, long time. AP classes usually count as up to 6.0 and AG/Honors classes are usually up to 5.0 with regular classes at 4.0. 4.68 wouldn't even have been my HS valedictorian or salutatorian and that was 18 years ago.
Even the college I went to you could get above a 4.0 as A+ counted as 4.3 (I averaged 4.08 I think).
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:46:40 AM PDT
by
rb22982
To: BBell
Good on you. He probably won’t be in a gang.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:47:40 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Mr.Unique
Looks like he misspelled UC Berkeley in that picture.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:49:53 AM PDT
by
lodi90
To: BBell
So Brown got the prime and all Hogg got was the pork belly.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:50:03 AM PDT
by
V K Lee
(Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
To: BBell
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:52:14 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
To: C210N
Or the next Ivy League educated leftist whacko lawyer.
To: Mr.Unique
A new Charles Payne?
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:53:26 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: Trump20162020
“Your GPA can go over 4.0 with AP classes.”
I.B. is , I think, a step above AP.....
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:54:47 AM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: Lurkinanloomin
Whites are irrelevant. They are not discussed. Only the accomplishments of non-whites matter. Didn’t you get the memo?
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:54:58 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Osage Orange
OK. I stand by my statement.
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posted on
04/04/2018 7:58:56 AM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: rb22982; AlaskaErik
Yup - Great scores for certain and congrats to the kid. But a white kid would have only made it into 6-8 of those colleges, with a scholarship at maybe 1. An Asian kid would have made it into 2-4 of those colleges with 0 scholarships.
I think that at least partial scholarship would have been more generous, and the acceptances might have been a little higher than you think, but in general you are on target. Whatever school gets him is fortunate, as you want as many people in your program that can actually do well in the program as possible.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:04:57 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
(It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
To: AlaskaErik
Our white son had similar SATs and was accepted at 5 of those schools. But no scholarship. He had to go somewhere that offered him something.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:06:48 AM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: BBell
I often wondered, why Yale or Harvard, or any of the other Ivy leagues? Why not John Doe U. or college? They all use the same text books or similar ones to the Ivy leagues. One’s success depends on the individual, not the name of the institution. Status seeking I guess. “Look at me, I went to Yale, Harvard et.al..”, sounds better than I graduated 1st in my class from Jone Doe College.” “Errrr, where is that?”
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:07:02 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
To: Mr.Unique
Agree. When my son was applying, we lived in California and the money was tight (money is ALWAYS tight in California, except for the rich people). It was $65 to apply, so I had to limit him to 5 schools. And he had full ride scholarship offers to several schools, including Berkeley, and UCLA. But two of the 3 Ivys rejected him and the third to which he applied wait listed him. It was $65 15 years ago......I cannot imagine how much it costs to apply now.
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posted on
04/04/2018 8:07:10 AM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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