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Anonymous wrote:All fighting over the token.

Are you jealous because no one is fighting over your kid?

Exactly!

Anonymous wrote:If he got into 8, he has to have several hooks.

Yes, and his high SAT score and class rank (top 2%) didn't hurt.

Anonymous wrote:All fighting over the token.

Are you jealous because no one is fighting over your kid?

If he got into 8, he has to have several hooks.

All fighting over the token.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

I'm proud of the young man. He's so well-spoken. I was expecting an accent given that he's first gen. His parents did a terrific job.

And yes, his was a TREMENDOUS feat. How many kids do you know getting into all 8 ivies?

I know a TON of upper middle class students who don't get into 1.

Why would he have an accent? He was born here and grew up here.

+1. He was born and raised American. Where will he get an accent?

I didn't realize he was born here. No wonder there's absolutely no trace of an accent whatsoever.

But really, what has that to do with the story and his wonderful accomplishments? People who want to derail threads with useless arguments are so 2013.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

Nurses are middle class.
The implication that "immigrant" necessarily signifies poverty is incorrect, to put it mildly. I have the impression that many immigrants from Africa come from African middle class if not upper crust. They may be poor by American standards starting out, but the mentality and the values are certainly present in the family.
I am happy for both young men and hope that they have great careers in college and beyond.

No one suggested that nurses WEREN'T middle class. However, nurses are not the same as doctors either. Just wanted to point that out to the poster who wanted to dismiss this child's accomplishments with the 'Oh well, he was upper class so what do you expect?' as if upper class kids are being admitted to all 8 ivies every day.

I also never suggested immigrant means poverty. However, I was again debunking the argument of the spoiled rich kid who should've been considered a shoe-in because of his family easily paved the way for him. Nope! Like their son, they obviously worked their butts off to become something in this country too.

I'm always amused at posters who get their panties in a bunch over things that were never said.

How hard are reading comprehension, analysis, and inference skills?

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Anonymous wrote:He's from Ghana. What did you expect?

No, he is from Long Island. .

Well, that explains his accent.

Anonymous wrote:He's from Ghana. What did you expect?

No, he is from Long Island. His parents are from Ghana.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

I'm proud of the young man. He's so well-spoken. I was expecting an accent given that he's first gen. His parents did a terrific job.

And yes, his was a TREMENDOUS feat. How many kids do you know getting into all 8 ivies?

I know a TON of upper middle class students who don't get into 1.

Why would he have an accent? He was born here and grew up here.

+1. He was born and raised American. Where will he get an accent?

I can answer this as a Cuban American. Have you visited Miami? My first-generation American Cuban friends (now in our 40s) speak English with a Cuban-Spanish accent, just like their/our immigrant parents. Perhaps more surprisingly, the children of my friends, second-generation American Cubans (from toddlers to late teens), also speak English with the Cuban-Spanish accent of their immigrant grandparents.

I think this is specific to certain areas of the country where there are high concentrations of people from the same place (i.e. Miami, certain parts of NYC, etc). Unless he was surrounded by a lot of Ghanaian immigrants, he would not grow up with an accent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

I'm proud of the young man. He's so well-spoken. I was expecting an accent given that he's first gen. His parents did a terrific job.

And yes, his was a TREMENDOUS feat. How many kids do you know getting into all 8 ivies?

I know a TON of upper middle class students who don't get into 1.

Why would he have an accent? He was born here and grew up here.

+1. He was born and raised American. Where will he get an accent?

I can answer this as a Cuban American. Have you visited Miami? My first-generation American Cuban friends (now in our 40s) speak English with a Cuban-Spanish accent, just like their/our immigrant parents. Perhaps more surprisingly, the children of my friends, second-generation American Cubans (from toddlers to late teens), also speak English with the Cuban-Spanish accent of their immigrant grandparents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

I'm proud of the young man. He's so well-spoken. I was expecting an accent given that he's first gen. His parents did a terrific job.

And yes, his was a TREMENDOUS feat. How many kids do you know getting into all 8 ivies?

I know a TON of upper middle class students who don't get into 1.

Why would he have an accent? He was born here and grew up here.

+1. He was born and raised American. Where will he get an accent?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this on GMA. His "2" parents are doctors and very much upper middle class. A great feat, but hardly compares to the Banneker boy. Congrats to both. This kid says he's leaning towards Yale.

His parents are immigrants who studied medicine and became NURSES.

Nurses are middle class.
The implication that "immigrant" necessarily signifies poverty is incorrect, to put it mildly. I have the impression that many immigrants from Africa come from African middle class if not upper crust. They may be poor by American standards starting out, but the mentality and the values are certainly present in the family.
I am happy for both young men and hope that they have great careers in college and beyond.

Anonymous wrote:That's ok - he's 17 and has something to brag about!

Well done to him.

Yes, that he has collected acceptances to a bunch of schools he may or may not actually want to attend. Seems like a waste of application fees, but for the attention he gets now.

That's ok - he's 17 and has something to brag about!

Well done to him.