Five Ivy League colleges vie for DC student (Banneker HS)

[Anonymous]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25104147/five-ivy-colleges-vie-for-dc-student#ixzz2xJ1Fjt00

Coffey applied to five Ivy League universities, and, amazingly, has been accepted at all of them: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown.

And four of the five universities have already offered very generous financial aid packages. (Harvard is still formulating its offer.)

Kudos to his mom, a single parent. If you're on DCUM, congratulations, well done!

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[Anonymous]

Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Coffey, if you are reading this (or your mom is), choose Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, assuming aid packages are equal. Major in Econ if they don't offer finance.

[Anonymous]

Kudos to Coffey and his mom. Both him and his mom should be very very proud of themselves.

[Anonymous]

Love this story. I wish that every kid thought that they could do whatever they put their mind to.

[Anonymous]

Great story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coffey, if you are reading this (or your mom is), choose Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, assuming aid packages are equal. Major in Econ if they don't offer finance.

I am curious why not Penn? Wharton is there.

Congrats, Coffey!

[Anonymous]

I love this story, thanks for posting!

-mom waiting to hear if we got accepted into our first choice high school, Banneker. C'mon 9am Monday!!

[Anonymous]

I'm pp, should also mention I'm a Ward 8 resident.

[Anonymous]

Wonderful story!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coffey, if you are reading this (or your mom is), choose Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, assuming aid packages are equal. Major in Econ if they don't offer finance.

I am curious why not Penn? Wharton is there.

Congrats, Coffey!

He should choose Brown and have some fun while learning.

[Anonymous]

Wow! So surprising an URM!!

[Anonymous]

Should I state the obvious? Before even clicking on the link I said he must be a minority. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should I state the obvious? Before even clicking on the link I said he must be a minority. Sad.

I cannot fathom why anything about this story is sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should I state the obvious? Before even clicking on the link I said he must be a minority. Sad.

I don't understand your comment. Do you think he's not qualified to attend those colleges?