CNN runs a piece celebrating a kid who was accepted to 185 different colleges after he announces he's chosen CORNELL!!!!

Who cares??

Why?

Even in Baltimore, where you can have a 0.13 GPA and be ranked 62/120?

You know for sure that kid got a full need based ride...

His apps were free.

He would fit right in here.

Why are they not reporting his SAT and ACT scores? If he was accepted to 185 schools- must have received perfect scores on this exams.

I guess that proves blacks are as smart, or smarter than whites, so no affirmation action is needed in college acceptances.

Wow. The person who called out your recent posts the other day has a point. This trollage isn't up to your usual standard.

I hope you're okay.

"Envy," actually. But, yeah.

I applied to Caltech, Stanford, and Cornell sight unseen. Seemed reasonable at the time.

Yes. Not a distance runner. Very smart.

He could be a brilliant kid, but due to affirmative action benefitting black kids, some may question whether this kid is truly deserving.

Affirmative action (not called that anymore but still practiced) is very unfair to really bright black kids.

Cornell is pretty equitable with the Ivys. Not sure choosing Cornell is shocking.

Cool. Meanwhile he will be at Cornell as he’d hoped for while loser “questioners” will still blame their race for their admissions shortcomings.

I suppose I am a little jelly, the kid got into 185 schools? But indeed it does smell of publicity stunt.

I haven't applied to any colleges so your statement isn't factual. And with all due respect I already understand your positionality and how you support anti-Asian discrimination so I am going to take the high road and ignore your personal attacks from now on.

This really stupid trend of seeing how many colleges you can get accepted to is beyond ridiculous. No one should give two sh!ts about this. Any Valedictorian from just about any high school in America could get accepted to well over 3,000 colleges if they wanted to (there are ~4,000 colleges in the United States). Why the hell would anyone want to? It SCREAMS of insecurity if you ask me. News organizations that report on this should be ashamed of themselves. It shows ZERO understanding of what it takes to get accepted to college. I also cringe at least once a year when some news outlet (usually a local one) announces that so and so got a "full ride" to Princeton or some other Ivy League school. Um...ok...that just means they had financial need that was met all the way as Ivy League schools don't give academic aid or athletic aid based on merit.

How many colleges you get accepted to just means you applied to that many colleges. Stupid as hell. SOOOO much insecurity to apply to colleges you know you have no interest in attending...a waste of time too.

Didn't mention your college applications or lack thereof. I said, "It wasn’t your ethnicity that held you back son."

Stop making excuses.

Exactly. I know someone black with a 1580 and great grades and ecs who was accepted to most places he applied; whites and Asians at my school with similar stats were also accepted, but for him he can’t be certain it was due to his talents