Teh One Who Knocks
04-05-2017, 11:01 AM
By Jackie Salo - The New York Post
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This New Jersey student’s unconventional approach to applying for college paid off for him.
On his Stanford University application, Ziad Ahmed was posed the question “What matters to you, and why?”
The 18-year-old activist from Princeton, New Jersey, decided to use the opportunity to write “#BlackLivesMatter” 100 times.
To his surprise, the answer caught the attention of the California school’s admissions office and Ahmed received his acceptance letter on Friday.
“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,” Ahmed told Mic.
He shared his acceptance letter and application on Twitter, where it quickly went viral.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I submitted this answer in my <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford">@Stanford</a> application, & yesterday, I was admitted...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/R5YxM77bWL">pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL</a></p>— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziadtheactivist/status/848215642385895425">April 1, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ahmed, who is Muslim, said on Twitter that he hopes to use his time in college to continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I also recognize black students are often systemically disenfranchised educationally, & that it is my duty to fight to change that,” he wrote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXaHoAZrS0
http://i.imgur.com/IocYCvi.jpg
This New Jersey student’s unconventional approach to applying for college paid off for him.
On his Stanford University application, Ziad Ahmed was posed the question “What matters to you, and why?”
The 18-year-old activist from Princeton, New Jersey, decided to use the opportunity to write “#BlackLivesMatter” 100 times.
To his surprise, the answer caught the attention of the California school’s admissions office and Ahmed received his acceptance letter on Friday.
“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,” Ahmed told Mic.
He shared his acceptance letter and application on Twitter, where it quickly went viral.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I submitted this answer in my <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford">@Stanford</a> application, & yesterday, I was admitted...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/R5YxM77bWL">pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL</a></p>— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziadtheactivist/status/848215642385895425">April 1, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ahmed, who is Muslim, said on Twitter that he hopes to use his time in college to continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I also recognize black students are often systemically disenfranchised educationally, & that it is my duty to fight to change that,” he wrote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXaHoAZrS0