re: New Orleans student accepted to 125 schools, receives $9M in scholarship offers

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This should underscore how hard it is to find a black college applicant these days.

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You makes no sense. The guy applied at 200 institutions. Being accepted at 125 of them is not overly impressive to suggest a race narrative.

What is the average cost of an application fee these days? That alone would be a chunk of cash to waste when you're only attending one school.

There's a bunch of students in this country who could pile up scholarship offers if they have the time and money to apply to hundreds of schools. Someone will likely break this record again in the next couple of years for no reason.

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What is the average cost of an application fee these days? That alone would be a chunk of cash to waste when you're only attending one school.

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Many schools have either drastically lowered their application fee, have a waiver one can apply for, or have done away with an application fee all together. It has been labeled as a "barrier to students" applying to colleges and universities.

Not to diminish his efforts, but having recently gone through this (multiple times in last few years), here are some clarifications:

#1 You can apply to many, maybe hundreds of schools, with a single online application process. Each school would offer the same scholarship amount to hundreds of students each year.

#2 While we had to pay from $25-$50 each for most applications (We are not OT wealthy, BTW), certain demographics have the fees waived.

#3 The scholarships are not money he receives, it is only a credit towards his tuition/costs at that particular school. Sometimes there is extra added for walking around money. With his GPA alone, surely he won some actual cash scholarships as well, but only a tiny fraction of that total.

#4 A substantial quantity of that is only available to certain demographics; maybe he's Baptist, has 11 toes, can yodel, has multiple personalities or sometimes even race can be a factor!

His GPA is certainly a testament, and he is surely a standout in multiple facets. Lets hope he puts his blessings to good and noble use!

It’s like $100-200 per application, his family spent a ton on those applications

But I thought black people were oppressed?

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It’s like $100-200 per application, his family spent a ton on those applications

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I don't know his financial situation, but if his family is poor, he could have applied for need based waivers. If he did get waivers, talk about a waste of charity.

Is the $9 million the cumulative application fees? Or were those waived for being wasis?

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International High School of New Orleans

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NOLA people, is this school legit or is it like the Breaux Bridge charter school that got famous for getting kids accepted to Ivy League schools only for an investigation to discover that the founders were cooking the numbers and resumes to make the kids, and therefore the school, look better?

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