This is impressive! This student has also won a few academic competitions.
15 year old Nigerian immigrant family genius.
Someone is an attention seeker. I wonder why.
Well, sometimes it’s somebody like a guidance counselor who tips off the press to a story like this. I’m always curious why somebody with a perfect SAT or ACT takes the other test at all–I guess you might take the second test before getting your score on the first?
There are lots of smart, driven kids out there, many of them nicely grounded and doing good for others around them and in their communities. I admire them and their accomplishments. But I just don’t fall all over this sort of news. Even if the kid is 15.
Note that the news story is from a local TV station in Mishawaka, Indiana. It’s a pretty good human interest story for a local news outlet.
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Must have been a slow news day.
Schools will often send this kind of news to local outlets, and local outlets often run it because they’re competing with the big internet news sites, and local news sells.
Yeah, or you had already planned to take both to cover your bases at all possible schools.
If you want to qualify for National Merit you have to take the SAT so that could be a reason to take both. ACT is given in school in several states as well.
I would guess the school sent this in. It’s good PR for them. I see stories like this in our local news from time to time.
Students may not have their college list finalized before taking the tests.
It also occurs to me that you might also take the ACT even after a perfect SAT because of the possibility that you might have disappointing results on SAT Subject Tests. At many selective schools, you could just submit the ACT.
That seems the most likely possibility.
Parents are an MD and an NP / college professor.
I have high hopes for Nigerians. It seems like this nation values education. Next Asians?
“Schools will often send this kind of news to local outlets” Really? Whatever happened to privacy? Aren’t kids’ test grades and school grades protected by privacy rules? It’s a nice accomplishment for this talented young woman, I wish her well, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for her school to be releasing her educational information, and I think it would be very odd for the family to call a TV station when their child scores well on some tests. So where did it come from?
Our local paper regularly does articles about individual students who perform at a high academic level (including perfect SAT scores), or who are exceptional athletes. They also highlight winning academic teams and sports teams. There have been some complaints in the community that too much attention is given to the athletes.
I imagine that at some point, they had to ask parental permission to interview the student and that this permission was granted. (Many years ago we turned down a reporter who wanted to do a feature about one of our children, but the child’s name still appeared as an award winner since we had signed a blanket release at the beginning of the school year.)
Almost every day is a slow news day. Many TV stations are doing 2 to 3 times more news in a day than they did just 5-10 years ago. That is a lot of content that is now needed but which used to be too inconsequential to run. My last station did 2 1/2 hours of news per day when I started. By the time I left they did 6 1/2. Since people don’t want to watch the same thing over and over again you get lots of stories that did not make it on the air in the past.
You would be amazed at the number of inane calls that we get every day asking us to cover their stories.
Wow, I think it is awesome, especially given how our culture idolizes athletes.
^^^ I agree. People don’t put up a fuss when the local paper or TV station profiles a teen athlete or a local sports team, but heaven forbid when it’s about academics. You’d think a website like this would cheer it rather than try to put down such a story. This girl is an inspiration. I hope she does well in college and in all her future endeavors.