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! ^/ u- T* ~9 E% N8 |7 I& D大家围观一下美国当代的白卷英雄,一个穆斯林娃在申请普林斯顿申请书上写了一百个#blacklifematter, 被录取了!When Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.- W. P9 ^3 k/ N. \
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So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in9 v/ {4 J, T3 e/ n1 l8 N
Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The* n9 [( ?$ C7 H: u: H
risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter' \; F! y. {( `; x9 J! q }
from Stanford.
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"I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted ," Ahmed said in an email. "I didn't think I would get admitted to Stanford/ H% d& u! P. n( C- g, V
at all, but it's quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic
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$ C2 v+ q$ ^) T( e$ |On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over
2 ^# \: }9 L- @2 _4 U! ~1 W2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a
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