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A set of quadruplet brothers, who go to high school outside Cincinnati, have been accepted by Harvard and Yale, among other top schools. And because the Wade quads, from Lakota East High School, all wrote about being part of a multiple birth, they may have helped themselves get into the Ivies. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/849592329728131072 According to the New York […]

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A17-year-old New Jersey student has a serious dilemma that most of us wish we had back in high school: which elite university to attend? WABC-TV reports that Ifeoma White-Thorpe received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford University. https://twitter.com/DenvilleSchool/status/849278088076816385 “I was shaking, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,’ like […]

Ifeoma White-Thorpe has to make a tough decision among the elite schools vying for her enrollment.

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For the second straight year, a student from Long Island, New York's Elmont Memorial High School has been accepted at all eight Ivy League schools, according to NBC 4 New York. The student, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, 17, who is the class valedictorian, has until May 1 to decide whether she'll attend one of the prestigious northeastern schools

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall. Yale Divinity School announced this weekend that he will…

Many believe Memphis, Tennessee teen Ronald Nelson made a big mistake for rejecting admission offers from eight Ivy League schools, but he knows his decision is a…

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Earlier this week we heard about Harold Ekeh, the New York teenager accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Now, Munira Khalif, a senior at Mounds Park Academy in…

Meet Harold Ekeh, the high school senior who was accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools! http://t.co/zAOGzxJGHr pic.twitter.com/qGbS4vRT0V — Sons & Brothers (@sonsandbros) April 5,…

A group of Black law students at Washington and Lee University are demanding that the school’s administration publicly denounce its Confederate past and distance the…

Cornel West, the public intellectual, activist and Ivy League professor, is taking a “significant pay cut” to leave Princeton and return to where he began his teaching career: Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. See Also: Black Travel: Five Tasty Brooklyn Brunch Spots See Also: Are Kermit And Miss Piggy Dating In […]