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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.. m; y1 E. F# _" a8 d; L
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Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The# h, \9 H# R. D. g3 z
risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter, n- d( q# _( O" ]6 }3 U+ i4 _, }
from Stanford.
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# ` [5 u) U) m f6 H, Z"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
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On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over
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