<p>amazing</p>
<p>Why is this amazing? It's great for them that all three sisters chose to go to the same very good school but, otherwise, not sure what the "amazement" would be about. I know three sisters (not triplets) who all went through Johns Hopkins med school and thought it was cool, in that I was close friends to two of them, and there was a small flurry of press as the third finished up, but I don't think "amazing" describes those three sisters or the Dartmouth triplets. Unless you are purporting to be "amazed" by something else....</p>
<p>I guess because they are the first set of triplets (and identical ones at that) to graduate from Dartmouth.</p>
<p>In this day and age, for three to be accepted, to be able all to finish on time, to graduate. I think it is amazing. And while their triplet and minority status might somehow hav made it easier for the weakest one of the three to be accepted, I think it was no small feat that they all graduated. Just my opinion. They hope to work a year and then head to law school, one to med school and one to dental school.</p>
<p>ok.. sorry.. ill get my thesaurus out</p>
<p>I thought the article about them was amazing. They sound like a very talented set of sisters. It sounds like they contributed quite a bit to the Dartmouth community. In addition to being amazing, I think it's wonderful.</p>
<p>Great picture. Law, medical and dental school, too! I'm, uh, not amazed--I guess "impressed" is the word? ;) Congrats to them and their parents!</p>
<p>geez, I think it's pretty amazing... that's over half a million dollars worth of education.</p>
<p>If nothing else, it's amazing that they are IDENTICAL triplets. Think of the alignment of the stars...incredible odds! Surprise, wonder, astonishment.... Just off the top of my head, I'm thinkin' all these terms would apply if I were told that I'd given birth to identical triplets. Yup. AMAZING would most definitely be an appropriate word choice! Flabbergasted, and stunned. Now, after lots of hard work, they've stood together and gotten degrees from the same outstanding institution of higher learning. Pretty darned amazing!</p>
<p>Perhaps "wonderful" and "exciting" would better suit your sensibilities, redcrimblue. I find the story both of those things (wonderful & exciting). It makes me smile. Just as when I saw the Martin triplets on Oprah. I personally talked about them for days afterwards. </p>
<p>Anytime young people are making the news for good is a wonderful and exciting story as far as I'm concerned.</p>
<p>I think it's just cool looking at three beautiful, intelligent and hard-working girls that appear identical! :)</p>
<p>That is quite amazing. 3 smart young women, and identical triplets too!!!! For all 3 to be accepted to a premier institution and have medical/law school next on their agenda. Wow!!!</p>
<p>I'd say it's pretty amazing simply because such an unlikey event actually occured.</p>
<p>Let's look at the odds:</p>
<p>The odds of triplets being born in the first place for black Americans is 1/9800 births:</p>
<p>The odds of any one applicant being admitted to Dartmouth are about 1/5.</p>
<p>So the odds of all this happening at the same time are: 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/5 x 1/9800 = 1/1,225,000 or 0.0000816% </p>
<p>Now the actual odds are probably a little better than this by some hard-to-know amount, since the odds of the second and third triplet getting accepted might be affected by the acceptance of the first and second. But it's still a VERY rare set of cirmcumstances.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the young women.</p>
<p>I found the "amazing" comment to be, frankly, racist although I was hoping it was unintentional. I do think their achievements are wonderful.</p>
<p>really redcrim? how could you even come to that conclusion?</p>
<p>Yeah, how was that racist? Had the young women been white or asian, would the "amazing" caption been inappropriate? If you answer "no", but think it was inappropriate since they were black, then who's being racist?</p>
<p>I thought the amazing part referred to the "triplet" part...was I being insensitive?</p>
<p>Pretty neat. </p>
<p>But Dartmouth's first triplets? U of Cinti. had a set of triplets probably 12 years ago. They were boys and I could never tell them apart. Gaaa.</p>
<p>I wonder what it was like for the mom to sit through graduation. Sobbing times three?</p>
<p>Mom probably grateful that she didn't have to try to rush to 3 different college graduations.</p>