What Happened After a 16-year-old Chose FAMU Over Harvard

[Kings County]

He seems to be jumping around quite a bit, he seems lost.

However, it's not such a bad thing he turned down Harvard, black people get treated like shyt there. Everywhere you go on campus those white students are staring at you and talking about you "He's only here because of affirmative action" blah blah blah. I don't blame him for passing up that demon hole.

who gives a fukk let them talk but it puts him in a better position to succeed

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

who gives a fukk let them talk but it puts him in a better position to succeed

Only if he graduates

 

[Kings County]

Only if he graduates

from harvard?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

from harvard?

Yes....He's just beginning to write his chapter in life...He's only 20 and was working as a software engineer for Apple as a teenager.......

The aptitude is obviously there, he just feels like he's being pigeon holed and has a lot more to offer than just working a well paying 9 to 5....

Let him cook....People on here only want him to graduate from Harvard to help their self esteem and insecurities, and they could give a fukk less about the kid and what HE really wants.....They just want him to graduate from Harvard so they can feel better in front of white folks.....

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

Why do ya'll do this every time? @KenyaDoll please don't take @bigDeeOT seriously. You're arguing with somebody that supposedly hasn't even left high school yet...

As for the article, I mean... the choosing FAMU over Harvard is just mind-boggling to me. Somebody mentioned why not Ga Tech... or even Morehouse man, shyt smh. Dropping out for religious studies was honestly the worst decision... but even with all that, this kid is still extremely young and well accomplished. Yes, he passed up a once in a lifetime education, but let's not make him out to be a failure for that he was 16. Between the decision, dropping out, working for Apple, and teaching he's gained MORE experience and understanding of the real world than most have on their way out. I think that gives him an advantage to be someone truly important later, but for right now, he's just young... hopefully he's not taking anything to heart and is taking the time to fall back and regroup. He'll be alright.

 

[Primordial]

There are over 28,000 students at Harvard, from all across the globe, everyone isn't going to know each other anyways.

28,000? i'm talking undergrad here.....and u would be surprised at how small a world it actually is on those campuses.......whether its thru those lil Ivy factories or those academic enrichment/gifted education programs that also end up feeding minorities up that same pipeline, there a lot more familiar faces than u think

 

[⠀⠀⠀]

upper class class choose him. he was automatically going to be higher up executive status with a fortune 500 company with a white trophy wife but he choose to stick with being middle class for the rest of this life.

this kid will be depressed by 30

 

[Primordial]

good info

AA is really a social experiment that has failed, its like that eddie murphy movie trading places, white liberals sat around and said "hey what would happen if we give the negroes some extra points in their college applications, that would really solve our negro problem"

but AA can never address the fundamental issues of why black students have bad grades and low scores in the first place and really its something that black people need to solve, its not something that can be solved by an outside force

and its gotten out of control first because black people dont see it as a social experiment we see it as the key to progress and also its been spread to every tom dikk and harry including white women

imo its just something that needs to be stopped so we can focus on other methods besides white liberal social experiments

Yea the most fukked up part about it is it's actually (soon to be was) a key to progress for ppl that were blessed enough to have access to a top-level K-12 education and gain the necessary skills to not only get into college but succeed in college....massachusetts is a perfect example of this....u got kids wasting time getting a shytty education not even knowing that they're literally right next to the school that paved the path for Deval Patrick to become a successful politician plus providing hundreds of other kids with sound academic fundamentals for higher education.....not all cities are like this tho, some of them try to put the black community on to these schools/programs, but in boston either they don't know, don't show, or don't care

some kids get lucky and get recruited into those programs that feed them into better schools and in college...but the rest are pretty much fukked unless they pull themselves up by dem bootstraps

 

[bigDeeOT]

Blacks are 6 times more likely than whites and Asians to drop out of medical school for academic reasons. Blacks are nearly twice as likely as Hispanics to drop out for academic reasons.

https://www.aamc.org/download/102346/data/aibvol7no2.pdf

Wow, I'm surprised I haven't seen this before. Damn, well that hits the nail in the coffin. Case closed, seriously. We're letting blacks go to medical school with lower standards just for them to end up dropping out at a significantly higher rate. And for the ones that do pass, only about 60% of blacks graduate on time. The other 40% either drop out or take SEVEN years to graduate. God bless.

 

[Serious]

And your only there cuz your dad is a senator. Acting like some indian kids application didnt get thrown in the trash to let your 2.7 gpa having ass in harvard. Bush and Kerry were C students and went to Yale

legacy though

 

[Serious]

Blacks are 6 times more likely than whites and Asians to drop out of medical school for academic reasons. Blacks are nearly twice as likely as Hispanics to drop out for academic reasons.

https://www.aamc.org/download/102346/data/aibvol7no2.pdf

@innocentdevil
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@Golden
@Hiphoplives4eva
@kash10003

 

[DStyles]

This is just as dumb as that kid that passed up on a full paid scholarship to play football at some college just to become a rapper

 

[theworldismine13]

This is just as dumb as that kid that passed up on a full paid scholarship to play football at some college just to become a rapper

this is nothing like that, i think this kid made a mistake but in the end he'll be fine

the rapper dude is a plain idiot, but last i heard he's back in school though

 

[rapbeats]

Sounds like you're lost yourself. If you're bouncing from thing to thing before you complete any one of them, then you're not making any progress. How about you stop making excuses and see one thing through before you start another? Or do you not have the focus and consistency required to finish something you started?

i'll say it again. thats what we were all taught at a young age. if you start something finish it. dont be a jack of all trades master of none. be a master of something. the truth is, being very good at a lot of things is not something MOST people can do. just like most people are not masters at any one thing. therefore you are a master of jack of all trades.its a simple concept . but i know for you its difficult to take in because you're still stuck in what you were taught since you were 0.

 

[kash10003]

@innocentdevil
@Killer Instinct
@Golden
@Hiphoplives4eva
@kash10003

Dropping out of med school is a rare thing.

However, I do know some and they are not black. I do trust AAMC's statistic. I do not think that attrition due to academic reasons is completely independent of other variables, such as socioeconomic status going into medical school with the burden of significant life long loans. Biggest factor for success, academically or financially, is still parents' socioeconomic status and stability.

Anyway, I think over a 1-2% attrition rate is unacceptable in a field based on mentorship.

No clue what this thread is about though