Meet Kwasi Enin: The boy who was accepted into EVERY Ivy League school - Polidicks

[quote]KWASI ENIN GOT INTO EVERY SINGLE IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL. The 17-year-old, who attends William Floyd High School in Long Island, N.Y., applied to and was accepted by Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and University of Pennsylvania. (He also got into Duke. NBD.) How? He ranks 11th in his class, he scored a 2,250 out of 2,400 on his SAT, he's taken 11 AP classes, he's an athlete and a musician, oh and he volunteers at a local hospital. Still, Kwasi says he couldn't believe "when the yesses kept coming." [img]http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201431/rs_560x415-140401091948-634.Kwasi-Enin-jmd-010414.jpg[/img][/quote] [url]http://www.eonline.com/news/527279/meet-the-high-school-senior-who-was-accepted-into-every-single-ivy-league-school?cmpid=sn-111021-facebook-na-eonline[/url]

Brown indeed

[QUOTE=Complifused;44422909]Brown indeed[/QUOTE] I see what you fucking did there.

11 AP classes? well then, he sure is going to graduate faster

If he ranks 11th in his class, what happened to the guy who ranked 1st?

[QUOTE=Winner;44422923]that's not even that impressive, good for him though[/QUOTE] 11 AP classes is pretty impressive

[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;44422930]If he ranks 11th in his class, what happened to the guy who ranked 1st?[/QUOTE] Probably smart enough not to waste hundreds of dollars in application fees.

[QUOTE=Winner;44422923]that's not that impressive to be honest still really cool for him though[/QUOTE] it's not impressive at all, i know plenty of people with similar resumes. i have no idea why this is news? plenty of people get accepted to ivy league schools, though i don't know many that apply to every single one because jesus those apps are fucking expensive.

I was gonna say some snarky thing about affirmative action, but day-um. He deserves it.

because he's black.

[img]http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201431/rs_560x415-140401091948-634.Kwasi-Enin-jmd-010414.jpg[/img] "Pool's Closed"

Good on him, but why is this news? Oh wait, is it because he's black? [editline]1st April 2014[/editline] not trying to be racist or anything, but rumors are that colleges have to fulfill a racial diversity quota. correct me if im wrong on that

[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;44422930]If he ranks 11th in his class, what happened to the guy who ranked 1st?[/QUOTE] i'm wondering if everybody in the first 10 ranks got ivy league letters too or is he the only one?

[QUOTE=aznz888;44423078]Good on him, but why is this news? Oh wait, is it because he's black? [editline]1st April 2014[/editline] not trying to be racist or anything, but rumors are that colleges have to fulfill a racial diversity quota. correct me if im wrong on that[/QUOTE] Everything has to meet racial diversity quotas.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44423117]i'm wondering if everybody in the first 10 ranks got ivy league letters too or is he the only one?[/QUOTE] Doubtful. My sister's grades were pretty ridiculous and she got denied from Johns Hopkins. But then she didn't feel so bad when even the Valedictorian didn't get in. His high school is in Long Island so maybe it's kind of prestigious or something? I dunno.

It's nice to be reminded that no matter how good you think you are, you really aren't in comparison.

[QUOTE=Patriarch;44423307]It's nice to be reminded that no matter how good you think you are, you really aren't in comparison.[/QUOTE] And it's nice to remind that even after all that, there's still a chance the guy is still going to end up on the street, homeless.

[QUOTE=aznz888;44423078]not trying to be racist or anything, but rumors are that colleges have to fulfill a racial diversity quota. correct me if im wrong on that[/QUOTE] Yes, black people are incapable of achievement, so it [I]must[/I] be affirmative action.

[QUOTE=aznz888;44423078]Good on him, but why is this news? Oh wait, is it because he's black? [editline]1st April 2014[/editline] not trying to be racist or anything, but rumors are that colleges have to fulfill a racial diversity quota. correct me if im wrong on that[/QUOTE] i mean this probably played a large role. it's a touchy subject because affirmative action definitely has good goals, but the implementation is off. it'd be dumb to say that the only reason he got in was because of his race, because clearly he's a good student who has put a lot of effort into his studies. but good students who put a lot of effort into their studies are pretty much a dime a dozen and race is definitely a helpfully differentiating factor here.

Sounds like something from a Mary Sue fanfiction.

[QUOTE=aznz888;44423078]Good on him, but why is this news? Oh wait, is it because he's black? [editline]1st April 2014[/editline] not trying to be racist or anything, but rumors are that colleges have to fulfill a racial diversity quota. correct me if im wrong on that[/QUOTE] Doesn't affirmative action apply to public institutions?

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44422972]Probably smart enough not to waste hundreds of dollars in application fees.[/QUOTE] The thing is you don't know if you're getting into every school beforehand. That's why you apply to multiple schools.

I dropped out of highschool with a 1.5gpa in 10th grade... I feel shitty now. Although, I did officially drop out in the hospital with head wounds from a brass knuckle that I sustained at the school soooo...

One of my best friends was the valedictorian at my high school. He got into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Didn't bother applying to any other ivy league schools. He ended up choosing Princeton [QUOTE=Winner;44422923]that's not that impressive to be honest[/QUOTE] Totally agree. Good for him for getting into those colleges, but I took 6 IB exams and 7 AP exams. It's more a question of who you are outside of school

Guys it's April Fools, this is a joke article. Everyone knows black people can't be successful.

i think it was probably a lot more what he wrote down in his personal statement thing and the actually extra stuff he does vs the numericals i mean that's probably what actually separates you at the top

My issue with saying it's just because of affirmative action, or even mostly because of affirmative action is this: When a school has a majority of white male students, do people tell all those guys "They really only let you in because you're male and white"? And now this guy works his ass off and people can't wait to imply that if he wasn't black he might not have been selected at any of those schools much less all of them. There are a lot of minority students applying everywhere, if all these schools wanted were bodies to fill quotas they could find them easily without all of the schools offering this one guy a place.

[QUOTE=lintz;44422995]because he's black.[/QUOTE] This. One of my friends got some scholarships given to him just for being black.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;44423921]My issue with saying it's just because of affirmative action, or even mostly because of affirmative action is this: When a school has a majority of white male students, do people tell all those guys "They really only let you in because you're male and white"? And now this guy works his ass off and people can't wait to imply that if he wasn't black he might not have been selected at any of those schools much less all of them. There are a lot of minority students applying everywhere, if all these schools wanted were bodies to fill quotas they could find them easily without all of the schools offering this one guy a place.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it works both ways also. I could apply and get accepted to Southern A&M, and probably with a large portion paid, just because I'm white and it's a historically black college. All colleges have to maintain race ratios or else lose funding.... Don't take this the wrong way. This guy seems to be very deserving of it. I'm just saying that affirmative action isn't just "we need more black people everywhere" and more "we need diversity everywhere."

[QUOTE=frozensoda;44423674]I dropped out of highschool with a 1.5gpa in 10th grade... I feel shitty now. Although, I did officially drop out in the hospital with head wounds from a brass knuckle that I sustained at the school soooo...[/QUOTE] Don't worry about the grades, worry about where you wanna go in life and what's necessary to get there. I literally couldn't do elementary level math without a calculator less than 2 years ago (life had been complicated). I decided i'd have to "fix" myself math-wise before pursuing a STEM field career i wanted. Now i'm getting A's and i'll be taking calculus in the summer. Its ostensibly unimpressive, but knowing where i started, now i feel with enough determination, most people can do anything.