Posted on 04/02/2014 9:37:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last week, high school senior Kwasi Enin found out he had been accepted to every college he applied to — including all eight Ivy League schools.
How did Enin pull off this impressive feat? The Long Island student scored a 2250 on his SAT, had taken 11 AP courses, and was in the top 2% of his graduating class, but that doesn't necessarily show him fully as an applicant. The answer could be in his college application essay, which The New York Post published today.
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I heard this idiot say “and what not “ during a radio interview yesterday.
Was not even in the top ten of his high school class
Tells you all you need to know about the Ivy League
I doubt it. Ivy League schools receive far more with equal or better academics than they can accept.
For those who think this is a diversity admission, he got 2250 on his SATs. That means he is incredibly smart. This isn’t some idiot who got in solely because of his race or ethnic background.
No, this is precisely because of his race. Millions of incredibly smart kids with grades/scores like this kid don’t get admitted to every Ivy League school. Acceptance to every Ivy League school is academic equivalent of winning the powerball lotto. And he won because of his race, sorry.
Dis iz st0opit
Me too. Sounds like a beauty pageant contestant's speech.
Essay is pretty much incomprehensible
Little barry bastard Soetoro is a boy. This person is a young man.
i agree with you... with all that i have learned about this kid, he will do well at any of those Ivy League schools... he is not one of those minorities who find themselves out of their league...
The sad thing is that this not wholly, or not fairly, earned celebrity has exposed him to resentment and envy, including my own, to be honest. I hope it does not harm him or anger him.
Again, it’s not he who created this climate, but the universities. Still, wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was an idealistic student movement for race blind admissions, even by those who stand to benefit? No boxes checked, no essays on growing up in the ‘hood or Abuela the matriarch, names stripped off the applications....
Not going to happen, is it.
It’s an OK essay, but I don’t see it as Ivy League material. “While onstage as Jule in Guys and Dolls during my favorite musical” is terrible writing, repetitive and doesn’t make sense. There are others but that really jumped out at me. Don’t teachers review these anymore?
“I love that I still...”
Could that not have been “I am delighted that...”
“my then orchestra teacher ..” the “then” is not necessary...he already mentioned earlier in the same paragraph that he was in seventh grade..
Williams gave him the guarantee and while his high school academics would have allowed him to enter Williams as a Junior, he went the full four years, played hockey, got a great undergrad education and had a ball.
He then went to Europe and spent a year playing semi-pro hockey then came home and entered University of Michigan's medical school......(they were filled that first year thus his sebatical to europe)......
Some of the responses here are crazy. This kid got great SAT scores, took the right classes and has the academic profile of someone who makes it into an Ivy League school. He also happens to be black. Posters should be saving the comments about “he got in because of his skin color” for someone who deserves that type of comment. This kid does not deserve to be categorized as a diversity admission. Did his race play a part in his admission? Probably. But his record alone is the type of record of someone who gets into an Ivy League school irrespective of race.
He’s going to start the premier metal band of the 21st century.
“Is there a crowd asserting that he got in solely because of his race?”
Is there one single person who would seriously suggest that this kid would have gotten into 8 Ivy League schools if he wasn’t black? No doubt he’s smart and accomplished, and I wish him great success.
That doesn’t change the fact that a white or Asian kid from Long Island with those SAT scores and other attributes might very well have not gotten into a single Ivy League school.
Compared to the mediocrity of the Obama Era.
OK, I’m not all p.c. about never calling black boys, boys. I would never call someone Obama’s age a boy, even he is Obama.
You might note than in the next sentence I called Enin a young man.
I’m old enough that even young men in the military are boys to me, younger than some of my children, but the young men in the military qualify for that designation far more than a student in high school, still living in his parents’ home.
His name and skin color. I am NOT saying he’s not qualified or didn’t deserve it. However my daughter scored 2310 on her SATs, a 35 (of 36) on the ACTs, took at least 11 AP courses, and was Valedictorian of her graduating class. She speaks two languages, held 2 jobs at once during junior & senior years - 3 over the summer. Lived & studied abroad for a bit. Four Ivys rejected her. They are unintersted in white girls from small-town NY.
But music was his first love and motivation for all else. It was how he started every school day. At home he read music theory texts for entertainment. He was captain of the marching band. He played lead guitar and arranged music for the jazz band. He wrote arrangements for the percussion line. He played bass clarinet in the school wind symphony and regional and state symphonic bands. He performed acoustical duets at parent events and was chosen by his class to perform at their convocation.
He could have gone to an Ivy with his peers. But he chose instead to stay in the South on music and academic scholarships in the honors program of a public university. He eschewed medicine on his grandfather's advice, and law on my advice. Instead, he chose to major in Music Composition and Music Business (despite my advice). He's an independent thinker, and that is perhaps why he is also a staunch conservative and a Christian.
Now he's trying to make it in the music industry. If he succeeds, he could be a great influence. If not, he'll teach, and could still be a great influence.
His essay is strong. Combine it with his academic record and talent, and there’s no wonder that he was accepted.
Of course, nothing will ever be good enough for the perfectionists here on Free Republic. :-P
I say again: CONGRATULATIONS to this young man.
My son was rejected from an Ivy, and we don’t have sour grapes about it. I told him that he had to apply because his scores were so high but to expect rejection because the admission process is so competitive.
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