OMG…are you serious? I have been to countless high school and college graduations.Never EVER EVER have I heard anyone there, or anywhere else for that matter announce their SAT and AP scores publically.
The only places I have ever heard specifics about SAT scores is
“in a minivan full of mother’s wearing capris and twin sets” LOL @scubasue
Ibarra got hammered for tweeting:
Even if she had left out the “undocumented” bit, she probably still would have got hammered. Who outside of Tinder, actually brags to complete strangers that they have nice legs?
I believe she sent it to friends. The tweet was accompanied by a cute picture of her in a dress. She’s 17 or 18 and just a kid, and she sent a little tweet to her friends and she is proud of her accomplishments and her heritage. I don’t understand how some folks feel like it is there business to criticize her. What should have been a fantastic and celebratory time for her, has been tarnished by the attention and criticism of folks like some of you. 
Context for Posts 78 and 80: I was responding to a clairvoyant poster who guaranteed that in college the two girls would decorate their dorm with a Mexican flag and race bait and then insinuated that the colleges (one public and one private) obviously accepted unqualified minorities since neither had publicized their SAT or AP scores.
The posts to which I was responding were deleted.
Since this valedictorian is so smart, she knows Tweets are public by default.
But I am sad that you are so mean spirited about this.
Why make so many excuses? First, people claim her appreciation of the US is implied in her twitter post and now people claim the twitter was private? Why not just she is a kid and she messed up?
That tweet was so braggy - I’m not surprised it got picked up negatively.
My nieces just graduated from “gymnasium”/high school in Sweden. They have dual citizenship with the US and many of their classmates have dual citizenship with other countries. My nieces had American flags folded up on the inside of their hats (the Swedes wear hats that look like Captain’s hats at graduation) and their friends had other flags.
When the ceremony was over and the celebration started all those flags came out and were being waved around wildly. There were plenty of Swedish flags too.
She didn’t mess up. She made a little tweet to friends about her accomplishments and her heritage, and “came out of the closet” about the difficult immigration status that she has had to deal with , through no fault of her own. Hostile, angry, racist and bigoted people came out of the woodwork to SHAME her, insult her and send her nasty messages. Shameful. And I am very upset with the attitudes of some of the people on here.
Sad, sad, sad.
The teenager sent out a TWEET!! Teenagers are not thinking what night go viral or not.
Soon, we will hear she should have gotten a tutor to review her tweet before it was sent out.
Loosen up people!!! Seems some her may have missed the teenage years.
^C’mon people. She’s undocumented, not un-normal. My own white, citizen valedictorian 17 year old DD said more than one thing at that age that taken by itself would have made any one of you question both her IQ and her parenting.
That pretty much defines every 16-20 year old young woman I have ever met.
If this girl had not told us all that she was undocumented, we’d be here celebrating the example she set for her all peers and for immigrants and cutting her a whole bunch of slack for whatever mistakes she made on her journey.
If this student oficially has DACA, then strictly speaking, she’s not undocumented.
This is getting pathetic. Is there such thing as a tweet to friends? It’s oxymoron. If it’s a tweet, it’s public. It’s ok she did. She’s a kid. I don’t know about coming out of closet if she has DACA. She came out long ago. A bit melodramatic?
Yes, you were, Iglooo, but we like you anyway,
If parents brought them here when they were quite young then let the girls stay and give them free tuition if they qualify, seems unreasonable to send them to a country they know little of due to a crime of their parents. But once the girls are 21, send the parents back and do not let them return for X years…seems like the reasonable thing to do.
The immigration system is broken for certain. My wife was not american and we paid a fair bit of money to go through the proper procedures and follow all of the rules. There are many folks from her country that would love to come to the US. We should enforce the immigration rules and if we need folks then legal immigration makes loads of sense.
I agree the system needs repairing. I also agree that at 21 with a subsidized college there needs to be a requirement that the process is begun to gain citizenship or that process should be tied to scholarships. I also think you could be a “fast lane” process for college bound students who have been here since they were young children. I’m not supportive of adults who skirt immigration laws…at least make an effort to try and get on the right side of the law.
I live around the corner from the US Embassy. Every M-F morning, I see a queue of people lining up to apply for a visa to visit/work/stay/study in the US legally.
These law-abiding people are all chumps.
Then these girls are chumps too. The Yale girl has applied and is waiting/caught in the process and the UT girl has DACA status.
No, these girls aren’t chumps. They’re big winners after their parents cut the line.