New York teen accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools

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Anonymous wrote:The irony is that there are only 7 Ivy League schools, which nobody seems to have noticed.

Not so, moron.

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Whenever I see stories like this, I can profile the student pretty accurately (except sex which is 50/50).

For me, It's far easier to profile the reporter, news editor, and newspaper running with the story!

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Anonymous wrote:The irony is that there are only 7 Ivy League schools, which nobody seems to have noticed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

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Anonymous wrote:Nigerians, especially the Igbo people, kick butt.

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Indeed! My kids are half Ibo (spelling intentional), so I'm hoping some of it will rub off.

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Yes, Amy Chua ("Tiger Mom") wrote about Nigerians in her most recent book. This is from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives-success.html?_r=0

There are some black and Hispanic groups in America that far outperform some white and Asian groups. Immigrants from many West Indian and African countries, such as Jamaica, Ghana, and Haiti, are climbing America’s higher education ladder, but perhaps the most prominent are Nigerians. Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet in 2013 nearly one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School were of Nigerian ancestry; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.


More power to them. Impressive!

+1. If only AAs could learn from actual As.

Ironically, most AAs came from Nigeria and West Africa before subjugation to America and centuries of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, lack of civil and voting rights, unjust imprisonment, forced and unequal educational opportunities, Tea Party members and individuals the ilk of a Cruz, Trump, and the KKK. As still deal with the latter but bypassed the former.

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I don't know anyone of any "GROUP" who applied to all 8 Ivies. CHILL OUT.

I would not expect you too. Are you a college admission officer or higher university guru? I doubt it. Most of your kind are applying to community colleges. I don't know anyone who applied to community college for whatever that is worth ... absolutely nothing!

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Anonymous wrote:

Yes, Amy Chua ("Tiger Mom") wrote about Nigerians in her most recent book. This is from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives-success.html?_r=0

There are some black and Hispanic groups in America that far outperform some white and Asian groups. Immigrants from many West Indian and African countries, such as Jamaica, Ghana, and Haiti, are climbing America’s higher education ladder, but perhaps the most prominent are Nigerians. Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet in 2013 nearly one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School were of Nigerian ancestry; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.


More power to them. Impressive!

+1. If only AAs could learn from actual As.

Ironically, most AAs came from Nigeria and West Africa before subjugation to America and centuries of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, lack of civil and voting rights, unjust imprisonment, forced and unequal educational opportunities, Tea Party members and individuals the ilk of a Cruz, Trump, and the KKK. As still deal with the latter but bypassed the former.

According to Henry Louis Gates' research (AA History Professor at Harvard), most AA are of Senegambian (modern day Senegal and Gambia) and/or Angolan origin.

One of the biggest surprises about the history of the slave trade to the United States is the high percentage of our ancestors who were shipped to this country from Angola. African Americans have traditionally thought of Ghana and Senegal as our most common ancestral homes on the African continent, but almost half of all of the slaves arriving in this country were shipped here from two sources: Senegambia, yes, but also, Angola.

The slave trade from Angola to the New World began in the 16th century and continued (illegally) until 1860. It is estimated that, incredibly, there were more than 5 million slaves who came to the Western Hemisphere from Angola; more than half went to Brazil. Far fewer, in terms of absolute numbers, came to the U.S. (since the U.S. received dramatically fewer numbers of slaves than did Brazil, or even Haiti or Cuba or Jamaica, for instance). But the percentage from Angola was comparatively high.

According to historians Linda Heywood and John Thornton, we know that the first "20 and odd" Africans imported into Virginia in 1619 came from Angola. In fact, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, of the 388,000 Africans who landed in the various ports in North America over the entire course of the slave trade, 24 percent, or about 93,000 of them, came from Angola. In other words, an African American has about a one in four chance of being descended from these Central Africans.

Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/world/2013/06/where_did_slaves_come_from_in_africa_angola_is_one_place.html

Another surprise, Well over 90 percent of slaves from Africa were imported into the Caribbean and South America (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=11&psid=3807).

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I suspect there were many from West Africa who did not survive the trip in the belly of the boats.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The irony is that there are only 7 Ivy League schools, which nobody seems to have noticed.

No, there are eight.

Standford is not an Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The irony is that there are only 7 Ivy League schools, which nobody seems to have noticed.

No, there are eight.

Standford is not an Ivy.

Stanford is not spelled Standford.

This thread is pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect there were many from West Africa who did not survive the trip in the belly of the boats.

Yes, you're probably right. The Igbo from Nigeria were also known for being suicidal when faced with the prospect of enslavement. That also "helped" to reduce their numbers in the U.S., I suppose.

"The Igbo were known by planters and slavers of the American South for being fiercely independent and more unwilling to tolerate chattel slavery...Apparently the Africans went ashore and subsequently, under the direction of a high Igbo chief who was among them walked in unison into the creek singing in Igbo language "The Water Spirit brought us, the Water Spirit will take us home", thereby accepting the protection of their God, Chukwu and death over the alternative of slavery. Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote one of the only contemporary accounts of the incident which states that as soon as the Igbo landed on St. Simons Island they took to the swamp, committing suicide by walking into Dunbar Creek." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Landing)

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...This ancient town of Badagry was founded around l425 A.D. Before its existence, people lived along the Coast of Gberefu and this area later gave birth to the town of Badagry. It is the second largest commercial town in Lagos State, located an hour from Lagos and half an hour from the Republic of Benin. The Town of Badagry is bordered on the south by the Gulf of Guinea and surrounded by creeks, islands and a lake. The ancient town served mainly the Oyo Empire, which was comprised of Yoruba and Ogu people. Today, the Aworis and Egun are mainly the people who live in the town of Badagry as well as in Ogun State in Nigeria and in the neighbouring Republic of Benin. In the early 1500's, slaves were transported from West Africa to America through Badagry. Also Africans were taken to Europe, South America and the Caribbean. The slaves came mainly from West Africa and the neighbouring countries of Benin and Togo as well as other parts of Nigeria. The slave trade became the major source of income for the Europeans in Badagry. Today, Badagry is an historic site because of the significant role it played as a major slave port in Nigeria.

Over the period of the whole trade, more than 3.5 million slaves were shipped from Nigeria to the Americas. Most of these slaves were Igbo and Yoruba, with significant concentrations of Hausa, Ibibio, and other ethnic groups.

West Africa...Gold coast...Kingdom of Benin known as slave coast...for the Americas

http://old.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/slave_routes/slave_routes_nigeria.shtml

The "off-shore" slave traders had more success on the West African coast...the mosquitos amongst other surprises were increasing health threats with further interior penetration!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don't know anyone of any "GROUP" who applied to all 8 Ivies. CHILL OUT.

I would not expect you too. Are you a college admission officer or higher university guru? I doubt it. Most of your kind are applying to community colleges. I don't know anyone who applied to community college for whatever that is worth ... absolutely nothing!

Why are you forcing race into this? Ridiculous. Chill the F out. Seriously, you look ridiculous.

I am an Ivy grad for undergrad/grad. Many of my HS friends also attended Ivies. I know quite a few. These kids who apply to ALL of them are trophy hunting.

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Sorry buster. Race has nothing to do with my comment. That you do not know anyone who applied to all the Ivy League schools or SEC schools (to play football) is just as irrelevant as I do not know anyone who applied to all community colleges.

Your worldview is miniscule. This successful applicant we are describing certainly doesn't give a hoot about what you or I think at this juncture. She did what she wanted, executed, and got her result. She can sit back and fine tune which institution is the ultimate best fit...for her...and not you and your friends.

[Anonymous]

Why are you forcing race into this? Ridiculous. Chill the F out. Seriously, you look ridiculous.

I am an Ivy grad for undergrad/grad. Many of my HS friends also attended Ivies. I know quite a few. These kids who apply to ALL of them are trophy hunting.

No one here gives a damn where you and your friends went to school ... particularly as you claim...it is not a trophy school (just low or third tier Ivy League)!