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Oakland teen’s 5.0 GPA, 2100 SAT score lands him acceptance from multiple Ivy Leagues
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Damn near brings a tear to my eye
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I'll do you one better. Kid got into all 8 Ivy's
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...league-admissions-college-university/7119531/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...league-admissions-college-university/7119531/
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Oakland tech is a good school. Props to this young man.
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New YorkersYea He got yall an W, but you took it away with the "But NYC doe" ****
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Props to both kids.
I find the Oakland teen more interesting because i feel (my opinion) that he probably faced more barriers because of his dreads.
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Reading those youtube comments just shows that no matter what you do, people will always hate. And it's coming from both sides.
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Props to both young men. Makes me wonder where I'd be if I applied myself to my school work.
Makes me wonder where I'd be if I applied myself to my school work.
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Not gonna lie I was not expecting him to look like that at all.
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I'm proud of my fellow dread.
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To be honest-- idk if the kid ever wants to go into Corporate America, but if he does he'll have a tough time there. It's 2014 and someone wearing "locks" are still "classified".
Maybe because he's young and only a kid, he doesn't look "presentable" at all. Again, he's a kid and will mature as he gets older.
Kid from Long Island looks way more presentable.
Nonetheless, I'm impressed with the kid from Oakland. It's VERY tough to get out of a situation that he was in. I can kind of relate in a sense that I grew up around a lot of negative influences and many of the people I grew up with didn't do much with their lives.
It take a lot of motivation and drive to do what this kid has done. Especially when you had no support. Kid from Long Island had that positive support from his parent who are both nurses.
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Chalk another one up for team Nigeria
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I'm proud of my fellow dread.
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im proud of him and hope he gets out the hood safe and sound
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look, not to take anything away from the kid because it's hard as hell to get in to an Ivy league school, but the majority of the people thinking he's had a hard time in the hood, that's far from the truth. I'm from Oakland, don't know the kid personally but his mother has her phD and is a principal at Piedmont Elementary which is an upper middle class neighborhood. Many parents that are a little more well off than most resort to this tactic, sending their children to private schools for most of their childhood and then sending them to public schools when they get to high school where they have an academic advantage over other students who have been in ****** Oakland public school system since kindergarden.
Again, props to the kid but this is a highly sensationalized story.
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what exactly are you trying to say?
look, not to take anything away from the kid because it's hard as hell to get in to an Ivy league school, but the majority of the people thinking he's had a hard time in the hood, that's far from the truth. I'm from Oakland, don't know the kid personally but his mother has her phD and is a principal at Piedmont Elementary which is an upper middle class neighborhood. Many parents that are a little more well off than most resort to this tactic, sending their children to private schools for most of their childhood and then sending them to public schools when they get to high school where they have an academic advantage over other students who have been in ****** Oakland public school system since kindergarden.
Again, props to the kid but this is a highly sensationalized story.
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my man
waist-long dread
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I don't get where the story is, Oakland sends kids to Ivy league schools every year.
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Worldstar comments are probably ruthless, but this is great
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Are they all getting 5.0's and landing Sat scores that high? Because if that's the case then I'll agree with you.
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Good for him, his mom must be proud.
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Can't really say exactly what every single kid scores lol, but I'm sure it has to be around 2100 or higher to get to an Ivy. I worked with a non profit for 4 years after I finished at UC Berkeley and our program worked with kids from Oakland: tutoring, mentoring, college apps and essays. All kids got in to four years, half got in to top UCs, and a few always get in to Ivys. This is the only reason I'm commenting, his story is great but it isn't the anomaly the media is making it out to be.
As a fellow Oaklander and African American I'm proud of the young man. I just don't like the backdrop of his accomplishment that the media is portraying.
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I understand what you're saying. Where he comes from geographically doesn't describe who he is, because resources were made available to him from the moment he was born that others who live around him will never have. An educated, supportive mother who has the ability to monitor his grade school career goes farther than any after school program or AP class ever could (note that I don't mean to say that because a mother isn't educated that she is incapable of helping her child. Only that in this instance, Akintunde was further boosted by his mother's accomplishments in education). He had a path paved for him that he could follow closely and with guidance. He was born into a situation where the ability to succeed is much, much easier than it is for many other people in Oakland. That alone distinguishes him from his peers in high school.
Still, what he's accomplished is amazing. His example is something that Oaklanders can point to and ask themselves what would it take for them to accomplish the same. He certainly had many advantages, but many have conquered worse.
