A New Orleans teen applied to 127 colleges (50 of them HBCUs) and received 115 acceptances so far (and still waiting to hear back from the other 12). The obvious question is why. Is it about time to limit the number of applications?
$3.8 million total in scholarships lol.
Edit. Here is the original article link: https://www.nola.com/education/2019/04/new-orleans-teen-gets-115-college-acceptance-letters.html
Besides getting 20 from the common app, she got 50 more from the Black common app to HBCUs.
She gives “advice”:
So she isn’t just “chasing merit”. She is applying to schools just to apply. This is abuse of the system.
Why should there be limitations? If a student wants to invest time doing this, fine with me. Who is to set the limit? Some high schools, some teachers set limits and students are constrained by that. But if not, go right on ahead.
^ Because she is wasting everyone’s time processing her applications. By her own admission, she is requesting admission fee waivers for schools she has no interest in attending.
I just don’t… why, though? To get in the news maybe? It seems pretty absurd to me tbh.
This is trophy hunting behavior. This applicant wouldn’t have applied to nearly that many schools had they been forced to pay each application fee.
Guinness Book of World Records alert.
Imagine the outcry if a wealthy parent happily paid for all of those application fees for this trophy hunting. Suppose it was someone like Lori Loughlin’s kid?
I am curious how much of the $3.8 million in scholarships is actually need-based aid?
And I thought Janekia Baker getting into 55 colleges was a ridiculous amount. Silly me.
Beyond ridiculous. Are these people just trying to become a news story?!