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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.% i& E% \1 v, i! u }9 G+ R6 y
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So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in3 |9 e K; V& j3 `+ B% Y
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risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter4 c8 I e- n* g+ o5 b1 z
from 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 over7 p9 K$ \( i+ |, E" N z
2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a
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