Posted on 04/13/2018 9:12:28 AM PDT by simpson96
(Newser) – Amid the overwhelmingly positive reactions to Micheal Brown's college feat—the Houston teen has gotten full rides to 20 top schools—came an unwelcome one: An anchor and contributor on Fox 5 in Washington, DC, branded his decision to apply to so many schools as "a little ridiculous" and "a little obnoxious," and Brown wants a public apology. He tweeted last week, "This morning, I had a respectful Skype interview with @HollyLiveFox5DC, though I did not get an apology during the interview. I won't allow the interview to air until @fox5dc provides me with a public apology. Where's the #humandecency?"
He's apparently still waiting. USA Today spoke with Brown's mother, Berthinia Rutledge-Brown, who says the station didn't offer an apology. Ditto co-anchor Holly Morris, who commented that "you can only take one full ride and you are taking a spot from someone else who worked really hard." Rutledge-Brown says that instead of saying sorry, Morris told her son, "I didn't mean to offend you." Contributor Sarah Fraser, who called Brown's move "a little ridiculous," tweeted over the weekend that she had apologized and Brown "accepted my apology. Michaels [sic] accomplishments aren’t up for debate. I have learned a valuable lesson." Rutledge-Brown says her son has narrowed his options down to four: Georgetown, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. He'll reveal which one he chose on April 30.
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This seems sort of silly to me. I was annoyed at my kid because she only applied to about 3 schools and none were really “safe”. She did get accepted to one, which obviously is all you need. Applying to 20 seems a little over the top. It costs money to apply to each one too, I think it’s about 50 or 75 bucks for each application.
Sure seems that way.
I’d like to see the “affirmative action” test scores too!
The news anchor did not understand the game. And it has nothing to do with the kid, or his mother. The kid applied to numerous colleges because his high school’s college counselor told him to. The high school gets bonus points for sending better kids to the college. The colleges get brownie points for accepting kids “of color” even if they did not enroll at the school (at least they tried). Everybody wins, accept the kid who spends extra time enrolling everywhere. It may cost the kid a little more, but not likely too much. Some colleges wave the fee for kids like this.
A kid who “identifies as black or native American” and can get a 30 on their ACT is gold to these colleges. And gold to the high school. There are so few out there. And nobody wants to admit that. Also, nobody wants to admit that they don’t have many black students. So “identifying” raises the pool.
The reality is that students of color is easy if you include Asian and Hispanic. Asian has the obvious advantage of high test scores and even higher grades. If anything they are quota’ed out of their rightful place at many colleges like Harvard. And Hispanics are too easy to get. As anyone with a Spanish last name can play that card. You can have blond hair and blue eyes and lived in this country going back 150 years and be legitimately Hispanic if your name is Rivera. And of course the colleges are looking for that group too (blonde blue eyed Hispanics).
Not to defend the kid, but I wonder when this anchor applied for a job, how many TV Stations did he send his resume and audition tape to?
Agreed. I sent in 5 applications only and got into all 5 with full scholarships. 20 is too much unless the lil puke had no confidence in his first 5. Sorry, I have a low opinion of public school being a private school grad hehe
It would be interesting to see his grades and test scores and see how many white and asian kids with comparable metrics ran the table on admissions.
Notice how EVERY SINGLE nationally-heralded student who “got into every school they applied to” in the past 5 years is BLACK. Not Asian or Indian, as logic would predict. But Blacks. Where are the Asian groups demanding to see his transcripts and scores, and those who were rejected in his place. I betcha he scored lower than at least one Asian or White in every one of the Ivy league schools.
see my post 28. 20 is too much. The lil puke had no confidence on his first 5 so he winged it.
His own mother didn't care enough to spell his name right
Not if you "po". You can fill out a form to say you are on public assistance and can't afford it. Since he got the racial quota scholarship anyway, they likely won't even check.
The media slurps it up, but all it does is propagate the suspicion that blacks in high positions got there through affirmative action - I would not want to be put in that position if I had the chops to get there on my own yet people assumed it was handed to me.
I want to test him with my own tests, not the ones that are designed to hide his poor education.
She wasn't Hispanic--it was the surname of her ex-husband, who had a Hispanic father and an Irish-American mother. His father had abandoned him when he was young so he had been raised by his mother. But now his ex-wife was benefiting from the Hispanic surname.
And would he have been accepted at 20 schools if he wasn’t an aggrieved victim?
1560 on the SAT. Don’t remember his ACTs. He was on another thread last week.
A kid accepted into twenty schools should be lauded by the whole country.
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