re: Teen accepted to 113 colleges, offered $4.5M in scholarships

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The 17-year-old was accepted to 113 college

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The teenager spent hours pouring over each entry, making sure they were perfect, and when she wanted to quit, she called on her faith.

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Luckily, Harrison was able to apply to 53 Historically Black Colleges and Universities with just one application. She also used the common application to apply to 20 more at once.

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So she applied 42 times and it was a struggle she wanted to quit.

Good luck in the NICU.

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Posts like this are reason #2938822 why affirmative action needs to die.

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I would love for affirmative action to die, but the bolded part below:

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The kid gets $5M in scholarships and accepted into 113 schools, and you ignore her merits and credit AA.

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Indicates why there is still an argument to keep it alive.

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I’m pretty affirmative how she got into so many schools.

Also, applying to that many schools seems like an attention grab. There’s no way you could possibly have been torn between 113 colleges.

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only the OT is gonna find a way to bitch about someone doing good in the world.

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Harrison was awarded full rides to three schools: Bennett College, Ed Waters College in Jacksonville, FL, and Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, MS

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One of these things is not like the others....

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Nailed it. Post of the day.

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And there’s another one

Why did she limit herself to 113 schools?

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Black person lazy and without drive: typical welfare queen

Black person applies to and gets into a bunch of schools: affirmative action. Typical blacks getting things they didn't earn.

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This is true

Unfortunately, it's a kneejerk reaction because in truth, the girl got into to a bunch of shitty schools and is going to a very unremarkable one. It's not particularly newsworthy.

But, she's doing the right thing and should be proud of her accomplishments. The negative backlash is the product of people being dicks AND media shoving a race-centric story down our throats.

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You, like most of your community, have a perverted view of what racism is.

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You are correct.

AA's really are hurting themselves with shite like that.

Rebel called me a klan member and assumed I was from Arkansas, yet I didn't say one true racist thing.

Mind blown!!

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yeah they are playing up this story. i'm sure that wasn't even all her. the reporter likely got her to play it up

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Good for her for evidently taking her education seriously and wanting to continue to do so in college. That said, this article is hyperbole and disingeniousness at it's highest.

She applied to 113 college which seems ridiculous and unnecessary...until you read that one application could be used for NUMEROUS colleges. It's not as if she went through a meticulous process 113 times. Furthermore, it appears most if not all of the schools are some of the easiest schools to get into in the country. It's not as if she got in to all eight Ivy League schools, plus Stanford, Georgetown, Northwestern, etc. I would imagine zero (or at least less than 5) of the schools she applied to can be found in the top 75 schools in America

I suspect that many people on this very board could have gotten accepted to 113 of the least-selective schools in the country. The only reason they didn't is because they DIDN'T UNNECESSARILY APPLY TO 113 SCHOOLS.

This isn't a knock on the kid at all, but rather the publication that is passing this off as some sort of monumental accomplishment