Posted on 04/04/2017 3:26:22 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
New Jersey high school senior Ifeoma White-Thorpe said she couldn't believe it when she heard back from all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford University -- and they all accepted her for the fall.
“I was shaking, I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight,” she said when she got her last Ivy League acceptance notice online.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Stanford all want to see on their campuses in the fall.
White-Thorpe, a hopeful future global health professional, told WABC that “so many of them have great research facilities, so I was like, I might as well just shoot my shot and apply.” She believes her love of poetry and writing helped her stand out.
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Well I hope it would happen too. In a saner world, a philanthropic agency might do exactly that. Today it seems to be more about virtue signaling than about helping one’s fellow man.
I was going to give her the benefit of a doubt (and overlooking the teen-speak, almost all of them do that, no matter how smart and educated they are at that age, we just hope they’ll absorb a more professional way of speaking, at least to use in public), but your post took away my doubt.
A WHITE kid from my hometown of Fargo North Dakota was also just accepted to all eight as well as Stanford and MIT with a full ride. Will he be called TOKEN?
If she’s truly smart I wish her well. But I doubt she pays a dime since she’s in a ‘privileged class’.
Ivy league colleges received $41B in tuition reimbursement from the taxpayers last year, largely to sponsor ‘minorities’. Any world majority can move to the US and use skin color to claim ‘minority’ privileges regardless of US familial slave heritage. All world majorities are viewed as ‘disadvantaged’ in the good ole’ USA.
Intelligence and wisdom are largely independent of one another.
In 2015, eight students were accepted to all eight. They were all immigrants,
I believe the white guy is a Hispanic.
I wish this young lady all the success in the world, I’m sure she must be smart and resourceful.
Having said that, I have the same reaction whenever I see a “this kid got into all eight Ivy League Schools!” headline that I have whenever there’s a ‘Massive brawl at Denny’s” type headline. I don’t even have to look...
White guy......http://www.inforum.com/news/4244075-fargo-north-senior-accepted-all-8-ivy-league-schools
That’s true, and most of our institutions of “higher learning” seem to remove any native common sense the students may have had when they got there.
What’s a global health professional?
I hope her folks can afford it and she doesn’t end up with a serious Debt
(Been There and Doing it)
Any bets as to the chances of acceptance this girl would have at these schools?
Don’t feel bad, we can’t just ignore years of experience of reading about these events in order to not come to the logical conclusion. Of course there’ll be exceptions, but they’re not the rule.
She’s done well in her AP classes, she won the Selma essay * poetry competition, and is the President of her Student Government.
But, she is not getting any scholarship funds from those schools. She wants that too. Those schools are not cheap.
I hope she didn’t go to too much trouble on her essay.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58e37751e4b03a26a365d2eb/amp
A white, male, and Republican with the same record would not have a prayer. The system is rigged.
Working with “Doctors Without Borders”, or other such groups, or the CDC, which would take her all over the world in certain positions?
What the heck is a global health professional?
She said in the article that none of the schools were offering her scholarship or financial assistance.
I have 2 in college, and I refused to have them even apply to my “alma maters” or other Ivies or Stanford. Today I think what you study and how you do is more important than where you go. When admissions were overwhelmingly based on academic merit and academic subjects were still properly taught, I think there was an advantage. Now, I think people have become skeptical of “elite institutions” and their graduates.
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