California student accepted to every Ivy League school

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

California student accepted to every Ivy League school
| June 6, 2015 | Updated: June 6, 2015 2:36pm



FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — It would have been a success story if Fullerton High School senior Fernando Rojas, the son of Mexican immigrants whose schooling stopped in the eighth grade, was accepted to college. But the 17-year-old achieved a surprising clean sweep — he was accepted to every Ivy League school.

"I didn't think I would get into any," Rojas told The Orange County Register on Saturday. "When I got all eight, it was a blessing and a curse because I had to choose. I was excited and scared and everything at the same time."

The first call came from Yale University in February. Within weeks calls, emails and letters followed from Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University, Harvard University and Princeton University.

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Rojas also was accepted by Stanford University and two nearby schools, the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Fullerton.


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[mnhtnbb]

1. Go Yale!

I hope he's ready for some COLD weather!

[underpants]

2. Look sweetie we aren't settling for Princeton

Running joke in our house with our 9 year old. Not pushing her. She gets the joke.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Too funny.

I grew up in NJ. Went to school with a girl--3rd grade--who was among the first girls accepted
to Princeton in 1969.

My youngest son is at Yale School of Drama now.

And boy, has he complained about the cold weather after living in NC!

[underpants]

8. True story

We were joking about this one night. My wife went upstairs to the kitchen. I turned around to look at something on the computer.

I hear, "Daddy, help!"
I turn around to see my daughter stuck between one of the chairs and an ottoman

I walk over. Look down at my daughter and say, "Harvard huh?"


The next day my daughter is doing a hand trick on the way home from daycare. I looked into the rearview and she says, "Daddy, is this 'Harvard'?!?!"

[mnhtnbb]

9. LOL.

[JDPriestly]

3. Congratulations! Outstanding! Good luck!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I know his parents and family are proud.

([font size="1"]Penn! Penn! Penn![/font] )

[yuiyoshida]

5. Bravo

[Omaha Steve]

6. Sorry for the dupe Judi

K&R!

[redruddyred]

10. I feel like they accept kids like this one to distract from the fact that

the ivy leagues are bastions of elitism. white, rich person guilt or something.
it's a nice story, but doesn't change the underlying trend.

[romanic]

11. Or maybe

more minority students are proving themselves to be just as smart, educated and worthy of an Ivy league degree just like their white counterparts. No need to shit on this kid's success.

[JI7]

12. they have always has both, see Bill Clinton, the thing is that those without money and connections

have to work harder to get them while there are many who are there just because of their name, money etc but otherwise would probably not have even got into state schools.

[redruddyred]

16. bill clinton is widely considered to be one of our smartest *presidents*

nevermind undergrad student.
but I see the era he grew up in as somehow vastly different; when you look at old pictures you don't see such enormous difference esp in health between the rich and the poor.
it seemed like one could come from humble beginnings and still be facing a level playing ground.
these days the *jobs* the rich and the poor do are so massively different in terms of demands, schedule, safety considerations that I don't know how anyone escapes the poverty trap.
poor people don't even eat the same food, in fact it's questionable whether they eat food at all. etc.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

13. Or maybe he earned it?

By the way referring to him as "this one" is offensive.

[redruddyred]

14. I think that admissions officers tend to judge capability in terms of

in terms of the white, upper-middle class kids who make up the majority of their student body.

like I think that they don't know how to understand achievement in terms of an underprivileged background. for some reason some of these kids aren't as readily likeable in the way that this one was.

not saying that he wasn't qualified, rather that he is their token 'pat ourselves on the back' minority kid. likely there are countless others who they have overlooked for some reason or another.

[dembotoz]

15. Deport him and his family

They are all illegals

[Fastcars]

17. Not knocking his accomplishment...

And I am not overly familiar with how college admissions work. If you get accepted to the top/hardest to get into school wouldn't it be only natural that you would be accepted to the schools lower/easier to get into?