Can we keep this civil please?
It is one thing to say that writing BLM 100x is not a worthy essay. It is quite another to say this “kid seems to be all talk and no action”, and that “Universities saw him as a bank.”
Just to clarify about the silent twitter feed, he said recently that he’s pulling back from anymore commentary in order to “reflect on his opportunities” or something like that. Perhaps he’ll re-emerge on May 2nd. Hunkering down at this point might be a good idea for a variety of reasons. 
I think conjecture about this kid’s family, test scores or other qualifications is just that-conjecture. However, I believe that the primary reason that he was accepted was his response to this essay. The essay response is simply too provocative. I think it would be impossible to evaluate the rest of his application without his BLM response denominating opinion.
My only issue is that he’s benefitted from a movement that came in response to unarmed black people being killed. I am yet to see what this actually does for the BLM movement. He just used it to his benefit.
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You know that how?
I personally think he is being targeted because of the moslemphobia and the alt right hatred that is so prevalent these days.
As usual @collegedad13, we disagree. I think that a white kid of extreme privilege who wrote the same thing would also (rightly) be criticized.
@collegedad13 Lol because he got accepted.
"I personally think he is being targeted because of the moslemphobia and the alt right hatred that is so prevalent these days.
And YOU know that how?
This kid wouldn’t even have been discussed had he not gone out of his way to publicize his acceptance and the “essay” that he believes got him there. No one knows his motivations for doing that so it’s guesswork either way and all theories are fair game w/o the unnecessary labeling of “racist” or “wingding” (which would have been my retort had I been less civilized LOL).
Here is a good article for you to start with. It has 205 references
I am quite sure that everyone here knows how to use wikipedia @collegedad13.
The question remains though. Why do you believe that a rich white kid would not be criticized as well?
@hebegebe Here you go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
It has 145 references. You may want to look particularly at references 89 to 115.
Here is one close to being on point
Skiba, Russell J. et al., The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment. Indiana Education Policy Center, Policy Research Report SRS1, June 2000
Sorry @collegedad13 but you are coming up a bit short here with these wiki links. None of the manifestations of muslimophobia apply to a braggy kid receiving some unflattering comments about his lack of essay. And you have absolutely no idea of the ethnic identity of any of the posters. How about trying to answer the questions instead of looking up the latest buzz-word on Wiki?
Your tactics seem to originate from some sort of hostility to views different from yours. Interestingly the former provost of Stanford had a few words to say on the subject of intellectual intolerance. And happily, unlike Wiki, it’s not a link that violates the CC TOC:
Also, anyone who thinks whites are able to appropriate the issues and causes of African Americans w/o consequence need only recall the very sad example of Rachel Dolezal.
Here is the ending quote from the Stanford Provost you quoted. I think many of the posters including yourself would be wise to follow the sage advice in regards to this brilliant young man
"that those who hold views contrary to one’s own are rarely evil or stupid, and may know or understand things that we do not. It is only when we start with this assumption that rational discourse can begin, and that the winds of freedom can blow. "
Thank you for sharing John Etchemendy with us.
Oh, the irony @collegedad13. You need to read the entire article. 
I think your daughter wrote about solving problems by using simple solutions. Sometimes unfortunately issues like BLM can not be solved by simple solutions
Is the quote below from the provost the additional information you wanted me to see. . I think both you and I should take it to heart in regards to Mr. Ahmed
“It is hard for anyone to acknowledge high-quality work when that work is at odds, perhaps opposed, to one’s own deeply held beliefs. But we all need worthy opponents to challenge us in our search for truth. It is absolutely essential to the quality of our enterprise.”
Thank you again
As someone who is not white, I believe that white privilege is largely a myth. It certainly has had zero effect on my success or respect received by society as a whole.
@collegedad13 - can you please summarize the issue that Dean Etchemendy is addressing, and why he’s addressing it?
Edit to add I apologize in advance for giving you a simple question but I wanted to see how you are interpreting that article.
@hebegebe It’s okay to be wrong.
@jbstillflying I am not in your classroom and I am not a student of yours. I live in California which is an extremely diverse state and in which issues of race and diversity matter a great deal. From your previous answers I understand that you live in a state that is almost all white and you believe problems need simple solutions. So I completely understand where you are coming from. However not everybody is as fortunate as you to be in a similar situation. To me diversity and racial injustice are huge issues and are getting worse. I think Ziad is part of the solution. From your perspective where you live maybe its not a problem and the essay was just silly. Why don’t you tell us specifically how you feel?
@hebegebe a sample size of one is not large enough to draw conclusions. Also 100s of studies indicate that white privilege is not a myth