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\"\"<\/span>Impetus<\/a>: New York high school student is accepted into all eight Ivy League colleges among other prestigious schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, a lot of people probably think this girl is insufferably arrogant. Yeah yeah, haters gonna hate and all that jazz, but come on now; she applied to all eight Ivy League schools, Johns Hopkins and MIT among other notably prestigious schools? Sure, reach for the stars, but as people are very well aware, college applications ain\u2019t free. I can\u2019t imagine college applications for Ivy League schools are much cheaper than the local commuter school, but seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the credentials that she had, she was a shoe-in to get into most of the Ivy League schools, had she picked one that she liked the most, as well as perhaps a fallback one or two. Going for all eight, as well as other prestigious schools is most definitely an ego pursuit, to see how many she could get into, regardless of the cost of applying. It\u2019s a no-lose situation where getting into any of them garners the humble-bragging that\u2019s being done now, and any instances of denied entry can be met with simple denial of having applied.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whatever though, congratulations to this tryhard for getting into every single Ivy League school. I\u2019m sure her less intelligent friends are thrilled that she has her veritable pick between Harvard or Brown, or Columbia or Yale, while they\u2019re figuring out how they\u2019re going to afford SUNY-Long Island or Binghamton.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I saw the link to this story, I clicked it with the dread that I was going to be reading about some Korean or other Asian student, who was tryharding on an Asian-level, to have gone for every single Ivy League school. I was actually relieved when it turned out that this tryhard was of a Nigerian background. And then it occurred to me that most Asians aren\u2019t even aware of the fact that there\u2019s eight total Ivy League schools, and probably only know of Harvard and Yale.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then after reading about this story, I thought to myself that it sounded kind of familiar. So I did some light research, and it turns out that this story isn\u2019t as unique and quite so groundbreaking, when four other tryhards<\/em> have accomplished the exact same feat within the last two years, with three of them being in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

So one, we have a whole lot of tryhards applying to, and apparently get in to all the Ivy League schools, but the thing is, they\u2019re all from ethnic backgrounds that kind of tickle the radar that some gentrification might have a little to do with their overwhelming ease of acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not just point the I\u2019m a racist finger, because I\u2019m pretty sure anyone reading my fucking brog has also heard the same kinds of jokes that Ivy League or any other prestigious school has filled their quota of overly ambitious Asians, and have to be vastly more selective of them, so it\u2019s not like we\u2019re not aware that colleges do try to mix up the ethnic bowl with as many different flavors as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

But among the Ivy League tryhard sweepers, here\u2019s just the four others that I found from a two minute Google search, on top of this most recent tryhard:<\/span><\/p>\n