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06.17.08, 18:31 PM NY Schools
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Did you read about the New Utrecht HS (Brooklyn public school) kid who got into all 7 Ivies he applied to plus Georgetown, NYU & a college I can't remember? He was only rejected by MIT. He's going with Harvard. New Utrecht isn't even on the radar of UBers. (sorry for the double post - not used to New UB yet) [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
NY Schools 06.17.08, 06:31 PM Flag
 

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tell us about him.... [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:33 PM Flag
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never heard of the school, but the kid must be exceptional [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:35 PM Flag
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I had to look up the school too. It's in Bensonhurst, with a 48% graduation rate. Pretty racially diverse: 37% white, 29% Hispanic, 26% Asian, 10% Black. [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:39 PM Flag
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His family moved to the US from Poland 5 years ago. He was captain & founder of the debate team, president of mock trial team, editor of the paper, co-captain of model UN, valedictorian, played soccer & volunteered. Oh - and accepted at Stanford too. [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:37 PM Flag
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no wonder Middle America is threatened by immigration [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:39 PM Flag
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LOL! They're getting all the Ivy spots!!!!!!! [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:40 PM Flag
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^^^And they're doing it without even having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school!! How do they do it? [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:41 PM Flag
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Study [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:57 PM Flag
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nyc is threatened by immigration. middle america could care less. most of the immigrants there get totally absorbed into the culture. nyers are the ones whining about all the asians at stuy [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:47 PM Flag
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It was in the NY Post today... the boy arrived in the US from Poland when he was in the 7th grade... he had something like a GPA of 4.14 (due to scaling or something like that), debate team, newspaper, etc... [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:38 PM Flag
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and they say polish are dumb! [ Reply | More ]
General Topics 06.17.08, 06:48 PM Flag
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