Students get accepted to all Ivy League Schools

[bahodeme]

Major Kudos to both of them and their parents. The odd thing is the national media only mentioned Mr. Ekeh, not Ms. Khalif. I hate to say I think we know the reason why.

A Minnesota high school student has achieved the rare honor of being accepted by all 8 Ivy League schools, plus more highly accredited colleges.

“I was very surprised,” Munira Khalif, senior at Mounds Park Academy, said. “The best part for me was being able to call family members on the phone and to hear their excitement. This was truly a blessing from God.”

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28748860/minnesota-high-school-senior-accepted-to-all-8-ivy-league-schools

New York high school senior Harold Ekeh was recently accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.

That would be Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth and Cornell. Those Ivy League schools typically accept no more than 14 percent of applicants.

Ekeh told the New York Post, "My parents' hard work, and my hard work finally paid off."

Ekeh told FOX News his ultimate goal is to become a neurosurgeon and work on curing Alzheimer's, a disease that befell his grandmother.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28737894/student-accepted-to-all-8-ivy-league-schools

North Central senior Stefan Stoykov has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools and 18 colleges across the United States, in total.

Stoykov was born in Bulgaria, and he moved to the United States with his family when he was eight-years-old.

http://fox59.com/2015/04/08/indianapolis-student-gets-accepted-to-all-eight-ivy-league-schools/

 

[bahodeme]

Found another one....

GERMANTOWN, TN (WMC) -
One Houston High School senior and his family have a lot to be proud of. Ronald Nelson received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League schools.
Nelson says his appetite for good grades started at an early age and really took off in high school.

"Academics did not always come easy to me, but throughout my four years of high school I've just had amazing teachers who have made it a lot easier," Nelson said.

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/28741376/municipal-student-accepted-to-all-8-ivy-league-universities

 

[Johan]

Major Kudos to both of them and their parents. The odd thing is the national media only mentioned Mr. Ekeh, not Ms. Khalif. I hate to say I think we know the reason why.

You mean, the medias would choose to be silent about a muslim girl being doing incredibly good at school ? I can't believe this would happen, in the US, in "the land of opportunity", in a country where everyone can accomplish great things if they put enough work and dedication...

 

[bahodeme]

You mean, the medias would choose to be silent about a muslim girl being doing incredibly good at school ? I can't believe this would happen, in the US, in "the land of opportunity", in a country where everyone can accomplish great things if they put enough work and dedication...

To be honest, the only one that I saw nationally was Harold Ekeh. It wasn't until later that I noticed that there were 2 more. Either way, they, their parents and their teachers should have received the same attention. But, as I said in other posts, society does not really want to hear about people striving to do better. If they had committed a crime they would have received so much media coverage that you would thought they were accepted in every Ivy League School. Oh wait...

Also the real meaning of this post was to show that there are some parents, and will say communities that are doing the right thing in spite of my 2nd quote in my signature,

 

[Rey C.]

But, as I said in other posts, society does not really want to hear about people striving to do better. If they had committed a crime they would have received so much media coverage that you would thought they were accepted in every Ivy League School.

I absolutely agree with you!!!


Edit: I love Petra to death. But the first thing that needs to be changed now is how often we can rep people. Seriously! Sorry, man... I owe ya.

 

[ChefChiTown]

What makes me really, really happy is the fact that it's hardly mentioned in the media that this kid is black. When I first saw this story, I was dreading the possibility that the media would spin this into a skin-color fiasco and do nothing but talk about how a "black teen" got accepted into Ivy League schools, as if black people are idiots and the entire world's jaw should drop at the spectacle of a "black teen" being intelligent. So, I'm glad to see most every story I've seen written about this kid sticks to his credentials and talks about his accomplishment, not the meaningless color of his skin.

Anyway, good for this kid. He accomplished something INCREDIBLY hard to do and he deserves to be recognized for his rare feat.