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To: koan who wrote (782907)	5/1/2014 12:54:04 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation of 1577800

How does a student get accepted at all the ivy league universities? 1) He's a good prospect - at 98th percentile on SAT and 2) he's black. Without that, he'd certainly have been accepted somewhere, just not at ALL of them. Today, there is such a thing as black privilege. cnn.com It's not surprising he's a child of immigrants: .... Butler said Enin is not only a model academic student, but also plays three instruments for the chamber orchestra, sings in an a cappella group, throws shot put and discus for the high school's track and field team, participates in student government and has had a lead role in school plays since the ninth grade. ........... Harvard's acceptance rate, among the most selective in the country, was just 5.9% for the applicants for the class of 2017, according to its admissions site. Enin was also accepted to Duke University and three State University of New York campuses. ........... He hopes to one day pursue medicine, a dream of his that just so happens to align with his parents' careers. His parents, who immigrated from Ghana in the late 1980s, are both nurses and pushed Enin to receive the highest grades possible and follow his dreams. .........

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