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New Jersey teen gets accepted by all 8 Ivy League schools

Is this rare?
 
azgreg said:
Is this rare?
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Students getting into all of the Ivies is a feat, but it's happened to a handful of teens over the past couple of years -- Kwasi Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly Hyles last year.​
 
azgreg said:
Is this rare?
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Probably, even if because most people who could get accepted to all eight Ivies probably don't apply to all eight Ivies. The application fees alone would make it not worth the distinction.
 
Kobie said:
Probably, even if because most people who could get accepted to all eight Ivies probably don't apply to all eight Ivies. The application fees alone would make it not worth the distinction.
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I was accepted to all but 2 of the community colleges in Arizona.
 
azgreg said:
I was accepted to all but 2 of the community colleges in Arizona.
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Should've took one of them. I hear their degrees are worth a lot more than anything one could get out of the UofA.
 
poweRob said:
Should've took one of them. I hear their degrees are worth a lot more than anything one could get out of the UofA.
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I got a degree from the U of A. BS in Calcium Anthropology.
 
Sounds like a waste of time. I rather do something than pretend to do something.
 
azgreg said:
I got a degree from the U of A. BS in Calcium Anthropology.
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They are extinct aren't they? Pretty valuable info if you can dig one up.
 
poweRob said:
They are extinct aren't they? Pretty valuable info if you can dig one up.
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Calcium Anthropology is the study of milk men and yes, they're extinct.
 
azgreg said:
Calcium Anthropology is the study of milk men and yes, they're extinct.
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I know. I think you've said this before which is why I recall the study of milk men. Where do you gather your info from on them then?

 
poweRob said:
I know. I think you've said this before which is why I recall the study of milk men. Where do you gather your info from on them then?
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Ice core data.
 
Kobie said:
As they say, Arizona State is basically the Harvard of Tempe.
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ASSu was named as the school you are most likely to get a STD at.
 
congratulations to her. that's a nice article to read at the end of the day.
 
Helix said:
congratulations to her. that's a nice article to read at the end of the day.
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That is great. And probably an American. A relative applied to Harvard as a freshman, but was rejected; however, Stanford accepted her and got her undergrad degree. Now she wants to reapply to Harvard as a grad student.
 
poweRob said:
Check out these smarts....

Ifeoma White-Thorpe: Teen gets into all 8 Ivy League schools - CNN.com
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When I saw the name and thread title I thought "Black Woman". Outside chance "Black transgender". I was right. Than I saw the list of other students all accepted into all 8 Ivies in the article. I say good for them. I would have loved to see the SAT/ACT scores as opposed to the "got all straight A's". I don't know why CNN didn't bother to post test scores since doing well on the SAT/ACT is the equalizer as opposed to the "I GOT STRAIGHT A's". Lot's of people get straight A's.
 
Kobie said:
Probably, even if because most people who could get accepted to all eight Ivies probably don't apply to all eight Ivies. The application fees alone would make it not worth the distinction.
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$700 bucks isn't that much for such a distinction.
 
Dragonfly said:
"Ifeoma" ?????

Her parent's should be bitch-slapped.
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On the Contrary!
Her name imparts a Black minority student. A Huge advantage getting into college.
An Asian with near perfect SATs probably couldn't do it.
Note the other students listed in the OP who 'achieved' same:
"Kwasi Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly Hyles last year."..​
ALL Black.


Is there a bias against college applications from Asian students?

A study by Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade examined applicants to top colleges from 1997, when the maximum SAT score was 1600 (today it's 2400).
Espenshade found that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 SAT to have an equal chance of getting into an Elite college as White students with a 1410 or Black students with an 1100.".."
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If you're black with 1400 or maybe even 1300, (by old 2 pt test std) you're off the charts needed for 'Racial balance', and could indeed be accepted (even recruited) anywhere.
 
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