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HS student has been accepted to every college he applied to...including ALL EIGHT Ivy League schools
The London Daily Mail ^ | April 6, 2015 | Mia De Graaf

Posted on 04/06/2015 2:03:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Harold Ekeh has a very tough decision to make.

The 18-year-old Long Islander has waited anxiously for weeks since sending off his college applications.

But he didn't expect this.

Harold has been accepted by every single one - including all eight Ivy League schools.

It comes a year after another high schooler from Long Island, Kwasi Enin, was met with the same news. He chose Yale....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: immigrants; ivyleague; nigeria
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To: Junk Silver
Moved from Nigeria to Long Island at the age of eight, got 2270 in his SATs

I'm willing to bet that he is very well acquainted with ghetto culture and is NOT a fan of RAP music. He is probably shunned by that group for "acting white" and, what's more, he probably doesn't care.

He sounds like the kind of kid who could start a bidding war between the colleges if he aspired to work on Wall Street rather than as a neurosurgeon.

The world might have their next Ben Carson here.

21 posted on 04/06/2015 2:14:03 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

22 posted on 04/06/2015 2:14:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If your SAT’s are off the charts, if your father is a bisexual Nigerian Buddhist here illegally and your mother is a transsexual black Latino from Pakistan, if your family income is 7 figures, if you yourself have 6 different gender selections and are any religion except Christian, then your chances are good.

Very good.


23 posted on 04/06/2015 2:15:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: dfwgator

Stand up, ‘gator, let them see ya!


24 posted on 04/06/2015 2:15:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good for him. Hope the brothers don’t hassle him for “acting white”.


25 posted on 04/06/2015 2:16:37 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a Nephew who is probably the smartest person I have ever personally known. I don’t know what his SAT score was but throughout his life he has scored either perfect or near perfect scores on achievement tests.

He attended North Carolina on a scholastic scholarship and graduated either top or near the top of his class at Vanderbilt Law School.

Sure enough he has been extremely successful in life.

He was turned down by all the Ivy League schools.


26 posted on 04/06/2015 2:16:59 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Long Island huh? Atlanta Georgia is known to produce some of the highest testing Afican American students in the country as well.


27 posted on 04/06/2015 2:17:12 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have an idea...We GLADLY take him, and trade him for 100,000 US black males. Maybe the time in Africa will do them good like it did our Ivy League bound friend...


28 posted on 04/06/2015 2:17:39 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Once I saw his photo, I thought, “Quel surprise!”
29 posted on 04/06/2015 2:19:46 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: freedumb2003

My concern for the young man is that he’s honestly qualified to work at that level. If AA points helped him get it in, he may not be really ready to tackle the work load. A lot of young black men, who relied on AA points to get in ended up failing and owing money on their student loans for nothing.

However, if he’s really ready, I couldn’t be more happy for him.


30 posted on 04/06/2015 2:21:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He never learned how wear his pants down below his butt or dress in gang colors. Good for him.


31 posted on 04/06/2015 2:21:55 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: dfwgator
Very true. A former Black co-worker of mine sent his son to a Catholic High School in Ghana. Tuition was $700 per year plus room and board.

For a modest investment in tuition, room, board and airfare, he got back a polite young man totally divorced from the ghetto culture and accepted at a top-ranked university based on his SAT performance, not his color.

He told me that every failing intercity school ought to take the $10 to $15K in tax funding per student they are flushing down the crapper, send the kids to Ghana and spend the 75% or more savings elsewhere.

32 posted on 04/06/2015 2:22:14 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Ingtar

African blacks are a different breed than African Americans. They are prepared to work hard and they don’t fool around.


33 posted on 04/06/2015 2:22:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Captainpaintball

What makes you think that Africa would agree to that deal?


34 posted on 04/06/2015 2:23:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: Fresh Wind

Thomas Sowell? (just the first black guy who came to my mind. He puts the rest of his “brothas” to shame, rightfully so)


35 posted on 04/06/2015 2:23:56 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s leaning towards Yale, but my advice to him is, “Where is the best pre-med program?”


36 posted on 04/06/2015 2:24:41 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Ingtar

What is the perfect SAT at this point? My son had a 1580/1600 on his SATs, was third in his high school class of 600+, and didn’t get into the 3 Ivys where he applied. Yet, another young man in the class, well below my son on SAT and class rank, got into every Ivy he tried. One of these students is not like the other one...........


37 posted on 04/06/2015 2:25:11 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I was confidant about being accepted (with 2270 SAT), I would apply to the one college that I wished to attend.


38 posted on 04/06/2015 2:25:31 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: __rvx86
Thomas Sowell?

Nope. Barack Hussein Obama. (Idiotic Biden quote.)

39 posted on 04/06/2015 2:27:56 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a wonderful story, and ought to be the posterboard for what immigration to this country used to represent. A family who played by the rules and came here legally, and instilled in their son the values of hard work and honest ambition to take advantage of the opportunities this wonderful country offers.

Congrats to this young man.


40 posted on 04/06/2015 2:28:39 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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