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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2250 and top 2% of class at leading LI public. Being minority did not hurt. I don't care if you are white, yellow or green, those stats will get you serious consideration at all the top schools. No reverse discrimination here. [/quote]

It is not even close to a "leading Long Island high school".  [b]Over 30% farm[/b]s.  [/quote]

More of a reason his scores are impressive. Had he been at a top LI school, maybe he would have done even better. If anything the supposed affirmative action was geographic. [/quote]

He isn't poor. His family comes from Ivies. [/quote]

Still does not mean they are well off. Two college professors can easily make less than 150K combined. [/quote]

Well I doubt he was from the ghetto and on FARMS which is what someone else was trying to point out. [/quote]

His parents went to local, public colleges and got nursing degrees. He has a few uncles/cousins who got accepted to ivy league schools (no word on whether or not they attended). That really has no bearing on his own immediate family's financial status.

He's a well-rounded kid (music, volunteering, athletics, academics) from an unusual background, who wrote a strong essay and probably interviews well (assuming he had interviews for any of the schools). I'm thrilled that this is the college admissions story this year, rather than that ridiculous Pittsburgh spolied brat from last year.

This article offered this perspective:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/31/ivy-league-admissions-college-university/7119531/

But Enin has "a lot of things in his favor," says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm.

For one thing, he's a young man. "Colleges are looking for great boys," Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage.

He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Island's south shore. That puts him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of 2,400 points, puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students.

He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by the time he graduates this spring. He's a musician who sings in the school's a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospital's radiology department. Enin plans to study medicine, as did both of his parents. They immigrated to New York from Ghana in the 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby. Both are nurses.

Being a first-generation American from Ghana also helps him stand out, Cohen says.[/quote]

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