Anonymous wrote:Temple has a BSMD program that is more competitive to get in than Harvard.

A lot of bright kids choose BSMD programs over ivies. Among ivies, Brown is the only one that has BSMD.

This has nothing to do with anything. The kid in the article is not attending the BSMD program.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Thanks for the clarification! If you spent your junior and senior years at Palumbo, is your LinkedIn wrong (which says you attended Palumbo from 8/24-6/25)? Shouldn't it cover a two year period at Palumbo? Choosing to graduate college early makes perfect sense!

Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Awesome. You sound like a great kid who’s going places. Congratulations!

Temple has a BSMD program that is more competitive to get in than Harvard.

A lot of bright kids choose BSMD programs over ivies. Among ivies, Brown is the only one that has BSMD.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Hey! Are you really the famous kid! If so, congratulations and best of luck! And don't Google yourself!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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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Anonymous wrote:A lot of poor black students don't like Ivy schools for social/community reasons.
He might do a lot better at Temple in a supportive community than as an outsider at Harvard.

It would be a shame if he doesn't get to use the Gates scholarship for med school even though he chose a far less expensive undergra school than he could have

It also just seems he wants to be able to contribute to his community at home while in college. I know a young man from New Haven who choose Yale over Princeton for very similar reasons. He has a very bright future ahead of him; he’s clearly thoughtful

lol.. seriously

Yes. He preferred Princeton but now gets to work with his community at home. Not everything needs a snide remark attached, DCUM.

Princeton is the Temple of NJ?

While trying to be a smarta$$, you got your analogy wrong. No, Yale isn’t the Temple of Connecticut, but the students had a similar dilemma.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

One of my kids is a student at Temple. This young Gates Scholar is going to love it. He may have any number of reasons for choosing it -- including proximity to his family.

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.

I have a friend from whose daughter received a Gates scholarship and attends a lower tier KY public university (they are not KY residents).

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of poor black students don't like Ivy schools for social/community reasons.
He might do a lot better at Temple in a supportive community than as an outsider at Harvard.

It would be a shame if he doesn't get to use the Gates scholarship for med school even though he chose a far less expensive undergra school than he could have

It also just seems he wants to be able to contribute to his community at home while in college. I know a young man from New Haven who choose Yale over Princeton for very similar reasons. He has a very bright future ahead of him; he’s clearly thoughtful

lol.. seriously

Yes. He preferred Princeton but now gets to work with his community at home. Not everything needs a snide remark attached, DCUM.

Princeton is the Temple of NJ?

The guy turned down a full ride to Harvard…to go to Temple.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is a lot of it had to do with his AA degree and the fact that Temple will accept all of those credits, his time at Temple will be only about 2 years, and he will be off to med school far sooner than any other school would have allowed.

Where did it mention an AA degree?

It didn't. I'd said that for 11th grade he transfered to a school that offered AP classes.

The person is asking me (who posted his AA degree), not you.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is a lot of it had to do with his AA degree and the fact that Temple will accept all of those credits, his time at Temple will be only about 2 years, and he will be off to med school far sooner than any other school would have allowed.

Where did it mention an AA degree?

His LinkedIn page:

“With a strong academic foundation from my dual enrollment experience and an Associate’s degree already earned, I’m excited to begin this next chapter fully focused on clinical excellence, leadership, and making a meaningful impact in the field of cancer care.”

And now that I read it more, I see I am exactly right: “Grade: Dual Enrollment Student
While still in high school, I enrolled at the Community College of Philadelphia through a dual enrollment program, balancing college coursework alongside my high school responsibilities. Through hard work, time management, and determination, I successfully earned my Associate of Science degree before graduating high school. This experience not only accelerated my academic journey but also prepared me for the rigor of a four-year university. Earning a college degree as a high school student was both challenging and transformative—it strengthened my passion for learning and affirmed my commitment to pursuing a future in medicine and service.”

Zero highly selective schools would accelerate him beyond a semester or so. While he is accomplished, it is inaccurate to simple think he went with a school in his hometown for feel good reasons.