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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are PPs saying that she only applied to reach schools? She should have gotten into Spelman. Secondly, the mistakes in calculating her math grades are a big effing deal.

Nigerian-Americans are still URMs. Sidwell knows this. A look at Harvard’s C/O 2023 confirms this. I think this case is a net positive for current and future students, as the school will probably do a better job of accurately reporting grades now. It makes me wonder if there are FA families who have had similar experiences with little, if any, recourse. [/quote]

I dont think she applied to Spelman on time.  So that changes the analysis a good bit.  And  the point was she may have been viewed as Nigerian rather than Nigerian-American (i.e., as a non-citizen, a category that does not receive the URM boost).[/quote]

She’s a US citizen. What do we call US born kids with Irish parents? American. She was URM, not an international candidate. First and second generation kids of African parents appear are a norm at HYP and you can best believe that the schools are counting them as AA.[/quote]

Crazy enough, someone born with an African parent and never got to know him and with a white mom who actually raised him, together with her white parents, is counted by many as AA.

It's like magic.[/quote]

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