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NJ teen gets accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools and Stanford
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Posted on 04/04/2017 3:26:22 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky

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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Thank you for that information. I thought she looked Nigerian.


61 posted on 04/04/2017 4:09:00 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Thank you for that information. I thought she looked Nigerian.


62 posted on 04/04/2017 4:09:09 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: I want the USA back

*** “Blond blue-eyed boys need not apply” ***

That is an easy hurdle ... my kids were Asian (and not the Middle Eastern kind)


63 posted on 04/04/2017 4:10:07 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (They used to get away with it. Not anymore.)
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To: karnage

Let me add that they may well end up in “elite institutions” for graduate school in science or engineering. “Elite” in that context includes schools that are not normally thought of as “elite”, but professionals understand where the best programs are.


64 posted on 04/04/2017 4:11:07 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: karnage

How many presidents have been Ivy league? But in some cases, it’s chicken/egg.


65 posted on 04/04/2017 4:11:30 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: karnage
I would never advise anyone to get an undergraduate degree from an Ivy League school unless they were getting a full scholarship.

The reputations of these Ivy League schools are really based on their graduate programs -- Harvard and Yale for law, Cornell for medicine, the University of Pennsylvania for business, etc. And for some disciplines the Ivy League schools aren't even the best in the country at any level ... like engineering, for example, where schools like MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech have better reputations than any of the Ivies.

66 posted on 04/04/2017 4:13:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: blueplum
Ivy league colleges received $41B in tuition reimbursement from the taxpayers last year...

No. The $41B is over 6 years and wasn't for tuition reimbursment.

...largely to sponsor ‘minorities’.

Wrong. Of the $41B, about 1% ($460M) was student assistance. The rest was research grants, contracts, and tax exemptions the schools received because of their non-profit status.

Your post is wildly misleading.

67 posted on 04/04/2017 4:13:48 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: karnage

Your friend is correct. Graduating from certain schools definitely gives you a leg up and connections. In Boston, being a graduate of Boston College has it’s benefits.


68 posted on 04/04/2017 4:21:10 PM PDT by surrey
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To: snarkytart

race and gender. One look at her name and she was in.


69 posted on 04/04/2017 4:21:26 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: ilovesarah2012

Sounds like a cushy make-work job at the WHO or UN.


70 posted on 04/04/2017 4:23:53 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: ErikJohnsky

Ah, the glory of AA - may she become a physician and someday end up taking care of all the chairmen of the admissions committees of these universities in some emergency room somewhere.....


71 posted on 04/04/2017 4:25:23 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: A CA Guy

While her feat is impressive, and I have to hand it to her that her hard work paid off,

the Selma essay is only open to black entrants. This means a white kid will never have this accomplishment on their records.


72 posted on 04/04/2017 4:25:35 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: ought-six

I saw a black female grad of Harvard Law.....no spring chicken millennial, she, that said ‘”’posta” when she meant “supposed to. “


73 posted on 04/04/2017 4:28:01 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Socon-Econ
"A white, male, and Republican with the same record would not have a prayer. The system is rigged."

I thought the academic records and standardized test scores of ivy league "legacies", recruited athletes and URMs ("underrepresented minorities") taken as groups are roughly the same.

Problem is that only a small part of the class remains available for everyone else, so it's extremely competitive for those applicants who aren't legacies, can't throw a ball, and don't have the preferred combination of physical characteristics. They need to be very, very smart, and then it's a matter of luck.

She must be smart enough to survive in a very competitive academic environment or she wouldn't have been admitted. So I wish her the best.

74 posted on 04/04/2017 4:33:43 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: ErikJohnsky

Nah , just another affirmative action trophy...”shout out!”...gimmie gimmie gimmie....... With that said I have met persons in my 55 years who are considered highly intellectual and found them to lack basic common sense. College is fine if they initiate innovative independent thought as opposed to globalist sharia compliant pablum. I scored very highly nationwide when i was taking IOWA tests in school , I was interviewed on three separate occasions following the grading of the test’s. I could have gone to (I was told) Tuft’s or any other Massachusett’s college if I chose to....I started lumping wood for a framer that I walked up to and asked for work who was building a house ...been in the trades ever since and currently (at MY pace) work for and more importantly WITH great people building all types of things...boats/steel buildings/plumb/run electric/roof (I have a journeyman’s license) additions...and during the time and days off work for a great couple that have a perennial wholesale business in Sydney , Maine....I never asked anyone to GIVE me anything...just my outlook on this skinny broad/”teen.”


75 posted on 04/04/2017 4:38:56 PM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: karnage
However she got in, she got in. She didn’t create the system. I do not blame her for taking full advantage of it. And besides, who knows? Maybe she’s just that smart. Such folks do exist.

If it weren't for Affirmative Action, we wouldn't question it.

A pity, really.

76 posted on 04/04/2017 4:41:06 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: I want the USA back

Things like this always fix themselves eventually.

Yes, it will take tons of spilled blood, but truth will prevail because a small percentage of folks with common sense and truth behind them won’t stand for this $hit much longer.


77 posted on 04/04/2017 4:56:24 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: JPJones

Yep just like Susan Rice, who just said on national television she didn’t leak nothin on nobody, with her fancy Harvard PHD!!!


78 posted on 04/04/2017 5:00:20 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ErikJohnsky

About the 4th article in the past couple of years about someone getting accepted to all Ivy League schools. What a shame that no whites or Asians seem to be able to accomplish that.


79 posted on 04/04/2017 5:02:44 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: dhs12345

Are you kidding? She’s going to get scholarships up the wazoo.

She’ll probably get the full ride plus living expenses.

It’s that black privilege thing.


80 posted on 04/04/2017 5:06:40 PM PDT by aquila48
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