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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nigerians place a huge emphasis on education and on excelling, as some have previously noted. Nigerians also account for 25 percent of black students at Harvard Business School. They are consistently academic standouts. Not affirmative action. [/quote]

Nigerians (and Cubans) are obsessed with exploiting American affirmative action policies that were not intended for them.[/quote]

Jesus.  I [b]guess it's totally impossible that a young woman of color could, by herself, merit these admissions?
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I can completely understand why this MoCo student wrote this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/finding-growth-at-my-historically-black-college.html

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I [i]think[/i][b] what I am saying is that it is impossible for just about ANY young person to "merit" these admissions results, given the limited information we have (some of which we dug up, whether that's nice or kind or fair) about her.

I do not doubt that there is something special about this young woman and that she will contribute much to whatever school community she joins and do very well in her chosen field.  That said, read some of the threads here about admissions results this year, or look on college confidential to see how many kids with PERFECT SAT and/or ACT scores and tons of AP 5s and GPAs well over 4.0 (weighted, obviously) and multiple sports and multiple leadership positions and community service and competition wins, etc are not getting in to even ONE ivy or other top school.

I do think it would be totally impossible for any white candidate with identical stats to get into ALL of these schools.  Emphasis on ALL. And Asian kids?  With even better stats?  Forget about it.  Wouldn't happen.

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