<p>I know all the schools I applied to had good academic programs, said Leveille, who in making his final decision decided to looked more closely at the social environment of each college.</p>
<p>I tried to make sure that I could fit in there, said Leveille, who took time to visit his top picks before he settled on the New Jersey Ivy Leaguer.</p>
<p>I got a good vibe from the school. I saw there was good diversity, which is important, said the mature Leveille. The Queens native seemed less worried about the prospect of attending one of the nations most competitive colleges, possibly because hes used to thriving in competitive environments.</p>
<p>His accomplishments have earned him the National Achievement Scholarship, a one-time scholarship of $2,500 created for exceptional African American high school students who score high on the PSAT around the nation. Leveille is one of approximately 60 students in the state and 700 students across the nation to receive the honor. More than 130,000 students applied for the 2006 scholastic competition.</p>
<p>“From Princeton, Duke, U Penn, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Stony Brook and the University of Rochester, the college acceptance letters kept coming …”</p>
<p>Apparently didn’t apply to Harvard or Yale, or, if he did, he didn’t get in.</p>
<p>Byerly, your comments are offensive and uncalled for. Why would you feel the need to demean this student who has achieved so much? This is beneath you.</p>
<p>May I add as a note to Mr. Leveille, welcome to Princeton, we’re lucky to have you!</p>
<p>Byerly–I really don’t understand why you feel the need to constantly make snide remarks about stories mentioning people choosing to attend Princeton. No one else seems to do this. For example, when you posted the story “Los Alamos Girl Wins LANL Foundation’s Premier Scholarship,” no one rushed to question whether she had applied to Yale or Princeton. When you posted “From Sarajevo to HARVARD: Recruit Breaks Records,” no one made a suggestive post about whether he wasn’t able to get into Princeton. Yet you make these kinds of posts all the time and then you pretend you’re not trying to be insulting or bash Princeton. I don’t know why you feel it’s necessary to constantly be so negative, but it doesn’t speak well for you that you are so petty. I understand that you love Harvard and think it’s the best school in the country, but frankly although I think Harvard is an excellent school, you yourself are one of the worst advertisements for the school.</p>
<p>Thanks again PtonGrad2000 for another great post!</p>
<p>Byerly, you are an intelligent researcher, a fine writer and a great cheerleader for Harvard.</p>
<p>I’m hoping that tomorrow you’ll wake up with so much joy that it will be satifying enough to post uplifting posts on Harvard’s site. </p>
<p>Then we could keep smiling for a just a little longer after reading stories like the one above. PtonGrad2000 does for us over here what you do so well over there.</p>
<p>Take, for example, this similar story from today’s Buffalo News:</p>
<p>“FOR RWANDAN REFUGEE, ROAD TO HARVARD IS THROUGH BUFFALO”</p>
<p>By ANTHONY CARDINALE
News Staff Reporter
5/10/2006</p>
<pre><code>Remy Sanga Bizimungu, whose family fled Rwanda when he was 5 years old, is going to Harvard University in the fall to become a surgeon or a medical researcher, or both.
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<p>On Tuesday evening he was presented the Flickinger Family Award in Kleinhans Music Hall, where he and 10 other graduates of Buffalo Prep were honored with a dinner attended by 500 people.</p>
<p>“Things were starting to get really heated up, and genocide was just starting when we left the country,” he said. “That was the reason we left. I think I definitely will visit when I’m older.”</p>
<p>But for now, the School 45 graduate is finishing his senior year at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute and has chosen Harvard out of 10 top colleges and universities that have accepted him for the fall…" </p>
<p>Just adding my vote to those of midatlmom and gratefulparent. These boards are really becoming unpleasant as a result of this particular tactic.</p>
<p>Byerly–You have posted the Rwandan refugee story under its own thread on the Harvard forum. Once again, I question why you feel the need to report it again on a Princeton thread relating to a student who has chosen to go to Princeton. You will probably respond to this, if at all, by making some remark about how all these kids should be honored and how you are merely spreading the word. That type of response, however, would be insincere–for some reason, even when Harvard is not being “attacked”, you feel this obsessive need to bring in a mention of Harvard at every possible point. I ask that you truly look at yourself and ask why you can’t seem to let even harmless threads alone and try and restrain yourself the next time.</p>
<p>Are Byerly and other similarly ardent advocates of particular schools admissions office employees do you think? There seem to be a number of supposed Ivy grads on here with way too much time on their hands…so much so that I began to wonder about the true nature of job prospects for Ivy grads! Could they have already made their millions and are in an early retirement?</p>
<p>byerly must be extremely insecure that she needs to put other schools down, mostly addresed to high school students, in order to make harvard look better. of all schools, harvard does not need anybody to ‘prove’ anything about the quality of the institution.</p>
<p>Now mom, please realize that all these stories about refugee children achieving Ivy success are equally interesting, whatever school is involved. Its not about Harvard … and I hope its not about Princeton, either. So lets set aside petty partisan interests and celebrate children of all colors, creeds and nations of origin.</p>
<p>A wonderful sentiment, Byerly. I look forward to seeing you carry out this noble ideal by sharing the joy with the Harvard site of such stories you find about Princeton students just as eagerly as you share such uplifting stories about Harvard students on the Princeton site.</p>