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Muslim Teen Writes #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times for His Stanford Application, Gets Accepted
The Root has a story [theroot.com] about a young student who took a truly unique and bold approach to acceptance at an Ivy League school.
FTFA:
Is your activism performative or substantive? One New Jersey teen knew exactly how to show his answer to that question when filling out his application to Stanford University. Asked “What matters to you, and why?” the teen could think of only one thing: #BlackLivesMatter.
Ziad Ahmed wrote the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter 100 times, and that one act of activism paid off. According to a Mic profile of Ahmed, he received his letter of acceptance from Stanford on Friday.
Ahmed, who is a senior at Princeton (N.J.) Day School, said in an email to Mic: “I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted. I didn’t think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it’s quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic activism as an asset rather than a liability.”
I know it will irk many a reader here, but in the "Age of Trump" voices like this might indeed be ignored, or worse, persecuted.
