Last edited by Doctor Amadeus; 2015-04-06 at 01:11 AM.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
it looks like he is qualified on merits alone, and being a minority is in fact a plus to get accepted to schools..... so where's the story here?
it would be a story if he was rejected from all 8 schools or if he was some idiot that got accepted anyway, but this is not newsworthy whatsoever. good for him, move along
Just goes to show: hard work pays off for anyone with the necessary resolve.
"Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest, and your mistakes will be few..." — Confucius.
Or when you have dickheads, trying to reinforce because of your skin color you are likely a fucking criminals, better at basketball, or genetically predisposed to being incapable.
Shit like that has a way of being a message sent to all corners of the globe, and it has for a long, long time.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Last edited by Sledfang; 2015-04-06 at 01:42 AM.
Why do you say that? Like someone else pointed out, its probably rare that someone gets accepted to all eight because of the fact that nearly no one applies to all eight. Even his counselor said in her 29 years its never happened since most of the colleges look for different qualities. Not to mention the cost of applying. Seems each one is 75$ or above per. At 75$ it would cost 600$ to apply for all eight.
He applied to 13 colleges total. He dropped a lot of money just to apply to colleges. So I am sure that the combination of each one usually wanting a different type of person as well as the costs makes applying to all eight rare.
No normal kid with normal IQ would do this at his young age.
"He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer's.
For Ekeh, the cause is personal. His grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he was 11. One of his proudest moments was running home to tell his mother and aunts about the breakthroughs he was finding with DHA.
"When other kids would say, 'I want to be a superhero or police officer,' I would say, 'I want to know what is on the inside of us,'" he said.
Related: Stanford offers free tuition for families with less than $125,000
The key to success: Outside of the lab, Ekeh directs a youth choir at his church, plays the drums, is part of Key Club and Model UN and was elected to the Homecoming court. He speaks Igbo and Spanish and has a 100.5% GPA. He's proud of acing the AP History Exam despite his early struggles with the subject."
How can a school be 99% minority? Dooesent that make them the majority? Lol.
On topic, good for him. Not sure why the fact he is Nigerian should make it a surprise to anyone as he article and op seem to suggest. We're you attempting to say people from Nigeria/immigrants are stupid so this is even more amazing or something?
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I can't tell if you are serious with this. The "Nigerian prince" scam is usually not run by actual Nigerians...
You're a towel.
"He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer's.
For Ekeh, the cause is personal. His grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he was 11. One of his proudest moments was running home to tell his mother and aunts about the breakthroughs he was finding with DHA.
"When other kids would say, 'I want to be a superhero or police officer,' I would say, 'I want to know what is on the inside of us,'" he said.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland