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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird that profile article talked about changing schools to an AP school, when he immediately did an early college DE program instead of doing the AP courses at the new school.

Anyway, the guy is pretty invested in Philly, working in city government. Makes sense that he wouldn’t leave town. AP the real choice is Penn vs Temple. I think Temple will give him more flexibility to pursue his medical and civic career goals, while Penn would push him into a more traditional campus-focused liberal arts university experience.  [/quote]

He spent 2 years at community college and 1 year at his last HS. So he didn’t transfer to Academy at Palumbo and then immediately do DE.

But something is off…bc his LinkedIn says he left his Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School after sophomore year and it went through 6/2024 and that he was at Palumbo from 8/24-6/25. Where did he spend his junior year? I wonder if he was exclusively in the community college then. That’s my guess - he didn’t transfer an online comm college program junior year which counted for both HS and college credits. [/quote]

For clarification, I attended Sankofa for my first two years of high school and have been doing dual enrollment since freshman year. Community College dual enrollment program in Philadelphia is highly generous with the credits they offered which allowed me to be a high school and college student at the same time. Sankofa was a charter school that lacked resources education wise and I fulfilled all the classes that were offered there and left me with no other choice but to leave for a better school. As a sophomore I placed a 1100 on my sat score which at the time was the highest in the school where anywhere else that’s below average or the bare minimum. My junior and senior year I attended Academy at Palumbo where I was able to take on ap classes and seek the exposure of course subjects that I couldn’t at my previous school. I placed a 1480 Sat score in my first year at Palumbo after taking those courses of ap and honors classes. I already had stacked enough credits from CCP due to me already fulfilling the academic task at Sankofa in just two years. 
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