Posted on 04/06/2015 2:03:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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.
Stand up, ‘gator, let them see ya!
Good for him. Hope the brothers don’t hassle him for “acting white”.
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.
Long Island huh? Atlanta Georgia is known to produce some of the highest testing Afican American students in the country as well.
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...
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.
He never learned how wear his pants down below his butt or dress in gang colors. Good for him.
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.
African blacks are a different breed than African Americans. They are prepared to work hard and they don’t fool around.
What makes you think that Africa would agree to that deal?
Thomas Sowell? (just the first black guy who came to my mind. He puts the rest of his “brothas” to shame, rightfully so)
He’s leaning towards Yale, but my advice to him is, “Where is the best pre-med program?”
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...........
If I was confidant about being accepted (with 2270 SAT), I would apply to the one college that I wished to attend.
Nope. Barack Hussein Obama. (Idiotic Biden quote.)
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.
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