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Source<\/a>: California teenager accepted into over 30 colleges; among them Cornell and Duke\u2026Kunshan in China<\/span><\/p>\n I have to assume that after like the first 10 or so college applications, most of them are going to be for layup schools for a lot of these #TRYHARDs.\u00a0 Of course they go after the Ivy Leagues, the Stanfords, MITs, Hopkins\u2019 and a surprising favoritism to Georgia Tech, but the reality is that I\u2019m guessing most high school upper classmen can probably only name like 5-6 off the tops of their heads that they actually imagined going to themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n So when they apply to well into the 50s and 60, at that point, they just applying to everything under the sun and copying and pasting their essays and utilizing auto-fill in their broswers when filling out college applications for the SUNY-B-tier, UNC-G-tier and Cal-D-tier schools, and doing it for the attention they can get by amassing a large number of college acceptances.<\/span><\/p>\n But for this California teenager, the fact that Cornell is the first school mentioned, means that Cornell is the top school that she was accepted into, which means that she probably has at least applied to several of the other Ivy Leagues, as well as many other top-tier institutions in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n The fact that the article doesn\u2019t talk about aggregate scholarship dollars earned means that she clearly swung for the fences and got a lot of impressive yeses, and it turns out that she comes from a family of tryhards:<\/span><\/p>\n According to Tye, Madison had the academic inspiration she needed to pursue scholar status from her brother Chandler Brown, a Harvard graduate now pursuing his doctoral degree at Stanford University. Tye, Madison’s mother Yvonne Brown, and sister Brittany Brown also have higher education degrees from acclaimed four-year universities.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Her resume is pretty impressive, and it\u2019s commendable that she\u2019s coming out of the ashes out of some rural rando desert town in the San Bernadino valley area, and it\u2019s clear that #TRYHARD as she may be, she\u2019s definitely in the upper class that actually is trying to shoot for the moon and isn\u2019t just doing it for attention and to phish out a free ride somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n But the funny thing for me is the fact that her short list is Cornell and Duke Kunshan out in China. It\u2019s not often, and in fact, it\u2019s not something I\u2019ve ever heard before of anyone in America ever aspiring to go to a university outside of America.\u00a0 Much less to a place like China where the language barrier will be debilitating, not to mention China is super racist<\/em> when it comes to black people.<\/span><\/p>\n The above photograph is from 2016; not 1976 or 1916, but literally within the last decade.\u00a0 That\u2019s from an in-flight magazine on Air China, for all passengers to read optionally, the advice they give about steering clear from Indians, Pakistanis and black people.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not even black and could realistically hide in plain sight if I were to go to Shanghai, but nowhere in China is high on my list of places I want to go visit, much less gain an education from.<\/span><\/p>\n I know the temptation is high, to try and break the mold of molds, by being a black American to march into China and flip the narrative, but my god would that be walking into a lion\u2019s den of putting your life into hell.<\/span><\/p>\n Girl, you got an acceptance into Cornell; you know a quarter of the population of Suzhou, China probably applied to get into Cornell since it\u2019s an Ivy, don\u2019t be the hipster who just has to try something different.\u00a0 Save it for after you get your degree and have the flexibility to peace out of China at a moment\u2019s notice when you go and realize that the place just isn\u2019t as friendly to you as you might have thought it would\u2019ve been.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: California teenager accepted into over 30 colleges; among them Cornell and Duke\u2026Kunshan in China I have to assume that after like the first 10 or so college applications, most of them are going to be for layup schools for a lot of these #TRYHARDs.\u00a0 Of course they go after the Ivy Leagues, the Stanfords, … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2024: Cornell or.. 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