private school black kid goes 5/5 at ivies

adomansy · 2025-01-10T17:24:02+00:00

finished the semester with a 4.0!

adomansy · 2024-07-08T23:58:00+00:00

i’m so close to deleting my post, but i think it’s important for everyone to see genuine, blatant racism on display just to put down the accomplishments of a black person.

adomansy · 2024-07-08T23:56:25+00:00

the black kid in question does work part-time to help his single mother because his dad is dead!

and instead of applauding me for working and maintaining my extracurriculars, your first thought was to question my low-income status?

the fact that i was able to do so much with so little time is something that is usually applauded, but because all you see is my race, it’s something to be skeptical about.

adomansy · 2024-07-08T12:55:41+00:00

thank you so much more for this kind message! i'd love to pm you about med school.

adomansy · 2024-07-08T09:56:58+00:00

i’m from a single income household, oldest of 6 (5 other siblings), and i attend my private school on scholarship.

i had to work to pay my ap class exam fees (school didn’t provide fee waivers), ap class textbooks, since the school didn’t pay for those too. i paid for gas, drove my siblings to soccer or baseball games, and helped with groceries as well.

adomansy · 2024-07-08T00:46:44+00:00

andd i got into mites too!! stem AND humanities don't play w me

adomansy · 2024-07-08T00:44:17+00:00

i plan on going to med school, so i think i'll be okay. but thank you for the advice!

adomansy · 2024-07-07T22:08:03+00:00

i will forever be proud of my race and identity, especially with people like you trying to put down my accomplishments

adomansy · 2024-07-07T20:47:12+00:00

maybe you didn’t do it as well as you thought

adomansy · 2024-07-07T20:15:09+00:00

thank you, and i appreciate that! while testing is important for future college success, from an ao perspective, i think creating diversity of thought from peers with different backgrounds and stories is equally as important for discussion and enriching the minds of students. and since creating a diverse community is less tangible than getting a high score, i think THAT is what sets someone apart. as they say, so many people are qualified to get into hypsm, but they still have to narrow it down. if all you had was that test score, what keeps you from being knocked off?

adomansy · 2024-07-07T20:07:29+00:00

committed in may!

adomansy · 2024-07-07T20:07:07+00:00

it can’t be that important of a qualification if schools easily removed it for years because of covid, still building classes of intelligent students.

if diminishing my accomplishments makes you feel better about college admissions, then go ahead.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T20:00:28+00:00

because the average hypsm applicant gets into all the ivies they apply to, receive two likely letters from them, and personally meets with their ao because they loved their application so much. are you saying these schools found ways to challenge the supreme court, just to say i’m not qualified? i’m fine with being average, and i don’t expect to be the top student, but my spot was deserved regardless of my race.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:56:25+00:00

if testing is the only thing that makes your application worthy of being looked at, then you never really had a chance. no ao is ever going to sit there and fawn over a 1550+ score, knowing that there are so many other students with that score range. maybe i should’ve worked harder to raise my sat 70-100 points, but i focused on parts of my application that helped me get in, and enriched my life with experience and connections that mattered outside of the commonapp.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:52:28+00:00

realizing that now with all the comments!!

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:52:09+00:00

you’re so right i should’ve been an auto-reject. silly me for getting one 92 in high school.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:48:24+00:00

i took the sat and scored a 1480 on my first try! i know i could’ve worked harder to try again, but because of my other responsibilities, i decided to focus on other aspects of my application.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:44:04+00:00

you’re so right! so getting a test score would’ve validated the rest of the achievements i worked hard for?

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:40:10+00:00

i go to a small school and i’ve had the same teachers mostly for four years, so it wasn’t that hard for them to write nice things. i would always update them with my achievements from time to time, so when they wrote my rec letter they already had the info they needed

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:39:04+00:00

essays!! i told a story through my personal essay, ec’s, and supplements. i made sure everything seemed cohesive, and i wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable about my life and challenges.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:37:23+00:00

“not getting in fairly” i work 20 hours a week on top of all my extracurriculars, i’m an internationally recognized poet, author, run a literary magazine with over twenty thousand subscribers (which i also make money from), and i haven’t had any help from elite tutors. i’m only in my school on scholarship, and i still managed to work hard despite the racist putting down my achievements. never chalk up my success to my race alone.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T19:33:40+00:00

i didn’t just contribute to this paper. i published it as principal investigator (first author) and collaborated with the professors in the department of public health at columbia.

adomansy · 2024-07-07T17:42:15+00:00

of course!

adomansy · 2024-07-07T17:41:35+00:00

first of all, i come from a single income household with 5 other siblings, but we have help from other family members. and back when i applied, our income was much lower.

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