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Star Member Playinghardball (7,766 posts) He’s All Ivy — Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Colleges 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.
Star Member zazen (1,927 posts) 4. and my white daughter with equal accomplishments got accepted to 1 of 8It 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.
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 ivyleague school? this hurt seems very theoretical in comparison to the real hurt caused to african americans by years of brutal racism.
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.
Response to Playinghardball (Original post)Fri Apr 4, 2014, 12:39 PMBlue_Tires (36,353 posts) 13. lol people still can't accept ithttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/kwasi-enin-reddit-ivy-leauge-racist_n_5079680.html
I am black in protest of the current administration.
Are you trying to detonate a few primitive skulls again ?
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."
Point taken.
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.
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
In 1983, I think MIT and Caltech were in the $40-50 range. I shudder to think at what they are now.
A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y......
Uh, we're not talking the O'Dorkio type of American of African derivation here.
Legal immigrants, come to US to have a better life. Instill their work ethic in their son. Family makes good. The american dream!
Ted Kennedy is the only person with an actual confirmed kill in the war on women.
