But that of course does not mean that all black males are admitted to a prestigious school due to affirmative action.
Community college students who cannot transfer to a more prestigious school or secure a strong internship have a more difficult road, but not an impossible one.
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Walters has said she should not have tried to help Sheherazad Jaafari obtain an internship and admission to Columbia's prestigious School of International and Public Affairs.
Its founder envisioned higher education open to all regardless of race, gender or class an ideal that has remained the prestigious school's most cherished principle since 1902.
The most famous billionaire dropout is Microsoft's Bill Gates, who finally got his honorary degree from Harvard University in June, 30 years after quitting the prestigious school to sell software.
Neiman was in the invasion of Normandy and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, according to his publicist Gail Parenteau, later attending Chicago's prestigious School of the Art Institute on the G.
And then we have the high school level, where we have one of the most prestigious high school championships, the boys and girls athletic championships held every year.
The truth is, with the current boom in the school-age population and more families willing and able to pay, getting into a prestigious private school is harder than ever.
She persevered, attending a prestigious nursing school and going on to serve her community for more than 25 years.
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At the age of seven, Hamlisch became the youngest person to be accepted at New York's prestigious Juilliard school.
Oscar-nominated Postlethwaite left a job as a teacher to take up his place at the prestigious drama school in Clifton.
This year, 17-year-old Viviana Risco beat out 39 other finalists in the prestigious high school competition, sometimes called the junior Nobel Prize.
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Mr Brewer joined the prestigious music school in 1992 and quit two years later, after the affair with the schoolgirl was uncovered.
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After attending Moses Brown, a prestigious Quaker school, on scholarship, Gallagher went to Oberlin College, where she took her first art class, in printmaking.
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Bin Laden attended the most prestigious private school in Jeddah, where the students wore English-style prep uniforms rather than traditional garb, alongside Saudi princes.
Lauded as a child prodigy, Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted into Manhattan's prestigious Juilliard School of Music at the age of 7.
Someone recently forwarded to me an ad that was posted on the electronic bulletin board for parents at a prestigious private school in Manhattan.
To encourage the next generation of artisans, Context Travel developed a scholarship program with the Scuola delle Arti Orafe, a prestigious jewellery school in Florence.
This is the home of the prestigious Amsterdam School of Arts.
Goel was a 1983 graduate (MBA) of the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a classmate of Raj Rajaratnam.
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He moved to the prestigious Slade School in London and in 1947, at the age of 23, he had a one-man show, at which everything was sold.
He holds an MBA from a prestigious business school in Brussels and kept his economic activities running throughout the war, looking after family-owned coffee plantations and wood factories.
But the 22-year-old Brit, who started writing music at age 4, also studied composition and violin at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and wrote a piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra last year.
On a visit to London's prestigious Bartlett School, Quest takes a crash course in design, lends his ideas to a class project and tries to understand why it takes architects so long to get their hands on a real building.
Though he was enrolled at The Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious New York City public school, attending the school required him to make the long commute to the city's northernmost borough every day.
Her father was a successful lawyer and Linda was educated at the prestigious Scarsdale High School.
In the latest World Competitiveness Scoreboard from IMD, the prestigious Swiss business school, Mexico places 56 out of 60, behind Romania.
He was educated at a prestigious Roman Catholic school in Port-au-Prince and attended junior colleges in the US, though he never graduated.
Last November, a federal appeals court barred the prestigious Boston Latin School from using race as a deciding factor in the allocation of places to pupils.
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