Which Ivy will it be?

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Which will it be? Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Columbia?

That's the choice that faces Turpin High School senior Brandon Ortiz.

His father was a former migrant worker who worked his way up to facilities engineer in the local Ford factory, and his mother holds a journalism degree from BU.

Besides the unsurprising 4.0 GPA, NMF (and NMHF), he has performed the lead or a major role in every school drama since he was a freshman, and works 16 hours/week as a singing and dancing server at Johnny Rocket's. He wants to study Romance languages and eventually, international law.

Read about the Cincinnati-area senior's dilemma below:

The Enquirer - Which Ivy will it be?

[csleslie51]

Know a similar dilemma. Local student here has to chose between Yale, Harvard, U Penn, Rice and Stanford. Similar stats to kid in article.

[sueinphilly]

what a great hard decision to have to make!

Maybe decide based on what kind of weather he likes!

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In today's paper: he chose Harvard.

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I finally got around to reading the entire article (busy day today) and the only thing of note is this classic bit of misinformation by the reporter:

Because of his sterling academic record, his theatrical talents and community-minded projects, all four of the elite institutions offered him financial packages.

NO. The above might have gotten him accepted, but as well-informed CC-ers know, it would have been the family's financial situation that got him aid from the Ivies.

Grrrr.