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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on April 04, 2014, 02:22:06 PM
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Star Member Playinghardball (7,766 posts)
He’s All Ivy — Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Colleges
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In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall? A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y., the 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale. The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he’d been accepted to every one.
School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight on Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin. The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation’s most elite.
"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd High School, where Enin attends class. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she's never seen anything like this. "It's a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary."
For most of the eight schools, acceptance comes rarely, even among the USA's top students. At the top end, Cornell University admitted only 14% of applicants. Harvard accepted just 5.9%.
But Enin has "a lot of things in his favor," says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm.
For one thing, he's a young man. "Colleges are looking for great boys," Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage.
This has AWESOME written all over it... (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024764688)
...and they don't disappoint:
Star Member zazen (1,927 posts)
4. and my white daughter with equal accomplishments got accepted to 1 of 8
It was called the year of the "unhooked" white girl. Hispanic girls with lower qualifications at her school got into Princeton and Harvard but she didn't.
We're progressives and we understand affirmative action, but it's hard when it hits your kid, especially since we're on free and reduced lunch due to medical bankruptcy. We look middle class but are no longer in it. But she's in a top international Ivy now (after being waitlisted at first) on full scholarship. So all's well.
Still, I can see why some parents and kids could get pissed off when they have stellar accomplishments and don't get in--I think it hurts the high achieving Asian females around here most of all. But then they get heavily recruited by top 100 schools who offer them full rides, and smaller liberal arts schools here in NC aggressively try to recruit Asian students too with juicy scholarships.
:racist:
Star Member La Lioness Priyanka (47,037 posts)
14. there is a value in education to diversity. how is it hurting your kid when she did get into an ivy
league school? this hurt seems very theoretical in comparison to the real hurt caused to african americans by years of brutal racism.
TRANSLATION: "**** your daughter. This dude is BLACK."
Star Member lumberjack_jeff (27,846 posts)
10. Giving preferential admission to federally funded schools to men is technically illegal.
Schools do it (but officially insist that they don't) because if they don't maintain a semblance of gender balance, women stop applying.
Ummm, DUmmy...did you miss his skin pigment?
More is sure to come. All eight. Every one. We ALL know why.
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I see one more over educated female, baby making, dope head, freeloader coming up....like mother, like daughter.
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Response to Playinghardball (Original post)Fri Apr 4, 2014, 12:39 PM
Blue_Tires (36,353 posts)
13. lol people still can't accept it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/kwasi-enin-reddit-ivy-leauge-racist_n_5079680.html
Let me guess…teabilly heads are exploding?
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I am black in protest of the current administration.
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I am black in protest of the current administration.
Are you trying to detonate a few primitive skulls again ? :lmao:
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Why would anyone apply to eight colleges, not to mention eight IVY league schools? :???:
IIRC, it wasn't all that cheap to apply to college 26 years ago. And I only applied to three schools.
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Are you trying to detonate a few primitive skulls again ? :lmao:
Now that you mention it...
Why would anyone apply to eight colleges, not to mention eight IVY league schools? :???:
IIRC, it wasn't all that cheap to apply to college 26 years ago. And I only applied to three schools.
I am not a conspiracy theorist. But I am a fan of conspiracy theorists. And, I am a conspiracy theorist bandwagon jumper. Tell me more. The last time I got this excited was for festivus.
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Why would anyone apply to eight colleges, not to mention eight IVY league schools? :???:
IIRC, it wasn't all that cheap to apply to college 26 years ago. And I only applied to three schools.
The rule is that 2 is too few, 20 is too many. Eight is perfectly acceptable.
Have you considered that this young man, once his race and skills were determined, never had to fill out even a single application, and in fact they may well waive tuition and fees for him? I wouldn't be surprised if they made the "hostesses" at each school shave their legs on the day he showed up to "tour the dorms."
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The rule is that 2 is too few, 20 is too many. Eight is perfectly acceptable.
Have you considered that this young man, once his race and skills were determined, never had to fill out even a single application, and in fact they may well waive tuition and fees for him? I wouldn't be surprised if they made the "hostesses" at each school shave their legs on the day he showed up to "tour the dorms."
Point taken. :lol:
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And I'm not trying to denigrate this kid. It sounds like he is incredibly intelligent and has set his sights high, unlike most of the denizens of DUmmyville.
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Point taken. :lol:
Just the insides of their legs. Let's see if he accepts the offer, first.
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And I'm not trying to denigrate this kid. It sounds like he is incredibly intelligent and has set his sights high, unlike most of the denizens of DUmmyville.
Not at all. Those are private schools, and they are free to take whomever they wish. I just love it when DUmmies get a mouthful of what they wish for.
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The rule is that 2 is too few, 20 is too many. Eight is perfectly acceptable.
Have you considered that this young man, once his race and skills were determined, never had to fill out even a single application, and in fact they may well waive tuition and fees for him? I wouldn't be surprised if they made the "hostesses" at each school shave their legs on the day he showed up to "tour the dorms."
There was a leg shaving admin in Las Vegas for the infamous tailhook convention. The alleged victim had her legs shaved there. She may have been accepted to an Ivy League school.
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Why would anyone apply to eight colleges, not to mention eight IVY league schools? :???:
IIRC, it wasn't all that cheap to apply to college 26 years ago. And I only applied to three schools.
In 1983, I think MIT and Caltech were in the $40-50 range. I shudder to think at what they are now.
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If the definition of racism is the belief that one race can be inherently better (or worse) than another/others, and a racist is one who acts upon that belief - how can the DUmmies so often refer to 'reverse racism'. There is either racism, or there is not. But there is no 'reverse'.
Response to zazen (Reply #4)
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 03:27 PM Capt. Obvious (4,327 posts)
17. That's like reverse racism or slavery for white people
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In 1983, I think MIT and Caltech were in the $40-50 range. I shudder to think at what they are now.
I did a quick "Nadin", and it appears that the application rates haven't gone up all that much.
https://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/common_app_colleges.jhtml
For what it is worth.
EDIT - A three-year old HuffPo link, but still not as bad as I thought. Guess they make up for it in tuition.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/20-colleges-with-the-high_n_1026191.html
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A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y......
Uh, we're not talking the O'Dorkio type of American of African derivation here.
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Uh, we're not talking the O'Dorkio type of American of African derivation here.
WE aren't. DU is. To DU, skin pigmentation is all. The Ladies Man and this kid are exactly equal, you see. Unless, of course, this kid majors in Uncle Tom Studies and pulls a Ben Carson. The The Ladies Man is better again.
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Legal immigrants, come to US to have a better life. Instill their work ethic in their son. Family makes good. The american dream!
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Legal immigrants, come to US to have a better life. Instill their work ethic in their son. Family makes good. The american dream!
The guy that drives me to and from the airport is from Pakistan was telling me the other day he is thinking of buying a dry cleaning business (it sounds like a good deal). He already drives his taxi 12 hours a day and always picks me up no matter how early or how late. He talked about how he will expand the business by knocking on businesses' doors and extending it to the public (it is primarily B2B now). He also told me every morning and every evening he thanks God (I assume he is from the Christian part) for the USA and the opportunities he has been given here. And he is already making his young kids work for things they want.
THAT is the kind of work ethic we embrace! No handouts for this guy (he hates obozocare btw since it is screwing him over big time): if he didn't earn it, he doesn't want it.
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The problem with the DUmmies is that they believe all minority kids are just like this kid - hard working, determined.... they just get screwed at every turn by whitey. This kid apparently got lucky and slipped through unnoticed. :mental: :mental: