Recruiters Come Calling For Talented Minorities

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How about some good news for a change?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801372_pf.html

Recruiters Come Calling For Talented Minorities

By Nelson Hernandez
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 29, 2007; B01

William Chin, a senior at Charles H. Flowers High School in Prince George's County, leads an exalted life. He'll graduate first in his class Thursday. He scored a 2000 on the SAT. He's an Eagle Scout and a Maryland Distinguished Scholar. He even has a Facebook fan club. It's called "William Chin and the Lovely Ladies He Knows."

It has 197 members.

Like most students at Flowers, Chin is black. But as far as colleges are concerned, he is pure gold.

An aspiring engineer, Chin has been admitted to Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland at College Park, Howard, North Carolina State and North Carolina A&T. He also was admitted to his first choice: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He'll be going there next fall, he announced recently

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Most of Chin's friends in the science and technology program at Flowers have been admitted to top local and national colleges. One young woman picked Wellesley. Another senior chose McDaniel College over Johns Hopkins and Vassar. Chin's classmates are going to the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Chicago and have been admitted to the University of Pennsylvania, American University, Georgetown, George Washington, Rice, Tufts and Vanderbilt.

Like Chin and 96 percent of the students at Flowers, all of these high achievers are black, and they have discovered that they are popular on the college circuit. (The only gripe some have is that their parents make too much money for them to be eligible for need-based financial aid.)

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