These stories have become a rite of spring. I always chalked it up to a lack of black students who had the qualifications, so colleges competed for the few that did. Your research indicates it goes even deeper than that. The kid did make a good decision though with his choice of colleges. So often they’ll take that Ivy League offer and flunk out after a year, when they might have had a chance at another school.
The graduation rates for black kids matriculating to a four year school are awful, many of them are admitted to hit a quota for some admissions officer, spend a few years struggling and then drop out with a bunch of debt.
There are Baltimore high schools where not a single student can pass their state high school exams. Not too long ago a valedictorian in Georgia sued the state because she can't read. I hope the kid does well, but he may not be able to pass a intro college algebra class. A valedictorian from that high school merely tells us he showed up to class.
I should set a reminder for myself to check in on him in a few years, like I said my roommate was an electrical engineering major and he was pretty smart but had a ton of work to do every day and it all looked crazy complicated. The bar for being valedictorian has to be pretty low in a school like that.
I wondered the same thing so I looked into it, a lot of school no longer charge an admission fee (including Northern Illinois) and many others waive the fee for low income applicants. I would guess he just applied to a ton of schools with no admission fee just to say he was accepted to a ton of schools even though he never intended to go to them.
I grew up on the southwest side of Chicago and know Bogan very well, it is an absolute shitshow and the students are laughably uneducated. When I was in high school 30 years ago, went to a Catholic highschool in the city, Bogan was still mostly white but by the time I graduated the neighborhood turned into a shithole as the whites moved out. The only thing I can say about the kid from this story is good for him for actually graduating, most that enroll in Bogan do not, but that does not mean his "academic excellence" is going to translate well in a real school.
It cracks me up that they talk about pursuing academic excellence and all of this flowery language when all they really are doing is trying to push them through the system without killing each other or the teachers.
Like you said, this is all done to show us that black kids can do as well as White kids if all of us evil rayciss would just give them a chance. Another piece added to the crock of shit column. This kid will probably end up in jail or worse once he fails out of school.
Even though he's clearly using race to game the system, I also know that White, Chinese, Pakis, Indians as well as some ((other races)) all do it too. Such is life. Him being an educrat is better for us all than him being a semi-permanent jail inmate and/or an "unhoused" drug and/or alcohol addict, bc in essence that's a smaller barnancle for the tax slaves to overcome. And modesty and dignity are not strong blek behavioral traits either, so there's that.
What the hell, he’s 18. If he emerged from the birth canal working up a sweat, 18 isn’t “many.” But the journo-hacks do love their cliches, don’t they?
High school is only four years so that really makes it sound silly. He probably had to work harder not getting stabbed or shot than he did in his school work.
These stories have become a rite of spring. I always chalked it up to a lack of black students who had the qualifications, so colleges competed for the few that did. Your research indicates it goes even deeper than that. The kid did make a good decision though with his choice of colleges. So often they’ll take that Ivy League offer and flunk out after a year, when they might have had a chance at another school.
The graduation rates for black kids matriculating to a four year school are awful, many of them are admitted to hit a quota for some admissions officer, spend a few years struggling and then drop out with a bunch of debt.
I think I read somewhere that it was like 11% or something. I could be wrong but I think I read that from Thomas Sowell, ironically.
It is a little higher than that I think, around 40% last data I could find but that is still well over half that never finish
Maybe the 11% was Ivy League only? Not sure where I got that number but yes, your point still stands.
There are Baltimore high schools where not a single student can pass their state high school exams. Not too long ago a valedictorian in Georgia sued the state because she can't read. I hope the kid does well, but he may not be able to pass a intro college algebra class. A valedictorian from that high school merely tells us he showed up to class.
I should set a reminder for myself to check in on him in a few years, like I said my roommate was an electrical engineering major and he was pretty smart but had a ton of work to do every day and it all looked crazy complicated. The bar for being valedictorian has to be pretty low in a school like that.
Let’s say he applied to 100 schools (he’s at 83 and counting acceptances).
Doesn’t it cost, like, $40 to apply to each on average?
So this kid spent $4,000 on application fees? Or do they waive those for certain applicants?
I wondered the same thing so I looked into it, a lot of school no longer charge an admission fee (including Northern Illinois) and many others waive the fee for low income applicants. I would guess he just applied to a ton of schools with no admission fee just to say he was accepted to a ton of schools even though he never intended to go to them.
I grew up on the southwest side of Chicago and know Bogan very well, it is an absolute shitshow and the students are laughably uneducated. When I was in high school 30 years ago, went to a Catholic highschool in the city, Bogan was still mostly white but by the time I graduated the neighborhood turned into a shithole as the whites moved out. The only thing I can say about the kid from this story is good for him for actually graduating, most that enroll in Bogan do not, but that does not mean his "academic excellence" is going to translate well in a real school.
It cracks me up that they talk about pursuing academic excellence and all of this flowery language when all they really are doing is trying to push them through the system without killing each other or the teachers.
Like you said, this is all done to show us that black kids can do as well as White kids if all of us evil rayciss would just give them a chance. Another piece added to the crock of shit column. This kid will probably end up in jail or worse once he fails out of school.
Even though he's clearly using race to game the system, I also know that White, Chinese, Pakis, Indians as well as some ((other races)) all do it too. Such is life. Him being an educrat is better for us all than him being a semi-permanent jail inmate and/or an "unhoused" drug and/or alcohol addict, bc in essence that's a smaller barnancle for the tax slaves to overcome. And modesty and dignity are not strong blek behavioral traits either, so there's that.
“Many years of hard work?”
What the hell, he’s 18. If he emerged from the birth canal working up a sweat, 18 isn’t “many.” But the journo-hacks do love their cliches, don’t they?
High school is only four years so that really makes it sound silly. He probably had to work harder not getting stabbed or shot than he did in his school work.