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Reach for the stars, boy<\/a>: 12th<\/sup> grader in Hanoi accepted into multiple schools in America, including two of Ivy Leagues<\/span><\/p>\n One of the primary differences I noticed about an Asian news outlet reporting a #TRYHARD versus an American one is that they don\u2019t hide the fact that these kids might not be batting 1.000 when it comes to acceptance rates:<\/span><\/p>\n received acceptance letters from 11 out of 17 U.S. universities he applied to this admissions season.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So in high-expectation Asian dad<\/a> logic, boy failed six times, full stop.\u00a0 Disgrace get out of my house<\/span><\/p>\n The only consolation to this colossal failure is that among the schools that he did get accepted into, they were some notable places, like Yale and Cornell, two of the Ivy Leagues, as well as well-known schools like Johns Hopkins and Duke.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But not Harvard, that was probably one of his six failures.\u00a0 In fact, all six of those failures were probably the Ivies he didn\u2019t get into.\u00a0 SMH<\/span><\/p>\n The funny thing is that as altruistic as his ambitions are, his resume isn\u2019t nearly as impressive as some other ones I\u2019ve seen this #TRYHARDSZN2024. \u00a0Failed to get into six schools, didn\u2019t get a perfect SAT score, 1540\/1600, scored a 4 or 5 in all his AP courses, and the kicker, does not have a 4+ GPA.\u00a0 He\u2019s close, with a 3.95, but this SZN alone we\u2019ve seen numerous kids with like 4.5+ which means this boy is clearly dicking around with his life way too much probably playing League of Legends<\/em> or watching streamers and not studying instead.<\/span><\/p>\n For real though, unlike a lot of these #TRYHARDS this one seems to actually be reaching for the stars and going to Yale, and not necessarily phishing for a free ride somewhere, and going to take what\u2019s going to make the most economic sense, not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that either.<\/span><\/p>\n Because unlike a lot of other #TRYHARDS, this one admits that he comes from a privileged family, which answers the question of how he might be able to afford Yale\u2019s alleged $64K yearly tuition which probably doesn\u2019t account for books, boarding, food and discretion.<\/span><\/p>\n And that\u2019s the one big divide that separates this #TRYHARD from all others, because this one comes from money, and Vietnam is no America in terms of wealth, but they\u2019re also no Nicaragua either; but that doesn\u2019t stop him from being a #TRYHARD and applying to a boatload of schools that people without as much privilege but not too little and get their application fees waived, cannot afford to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reach for the stars, boy: 12th grader in Hanoi accepted into multiple schools in America, including two of Ivy Leagues One of the primary differences I noticed about an Asian news outlet reporting a #TRYHARD versus an American one is that they don\u2019t hide the fact that these kids might not be batting 1.000 when … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2024: Not Exclusive to America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,153,83,182],"class_list":["post-49882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-lowered-expectations","tag-memes","tag-observations","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49884,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions\/49884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}