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Meet Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, valedictorian of Elmont Memorial High School in Elmont, New York. Uwamanzu-Nna was recently accepted to not one but all eight Ivy League schools. She was also accepted to four highly competitive non-Ivies. While all options look promising, she has yet to make a decision.
I won’t lie – I couldn’t even name the eight Ivy League schools, let alone have had any chance of being accepted to one of them. I hope, without being too stalkerish, the media keeps track of this remarkable young woman. It would be interesting to see what she makes of her amazing life.
There’s someone like this every year. And great for them, but we pay way too much attention to the elite college application experience to the detriment of the masses of Americans and international students whose experiences are very different. I don’t really know why we need to consider this an important story.
A friend and co-worker’s daughter has been accepted at Berkley, Stanford, Cal Poly, Harvard, and is on the waiting list for MIT. She wants to study biophysics. Holy smokes, just the tuition numbers scare me to death.