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- Kwabena Adomako Amankwah
- Username: Kaad4life
- Location: Bronx, NY
- Joined PRX: May 21, 2007
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- "College-Bound"
- Summary: College-bound WAMU Youth Voices reporter Andre knows he’s lucky to be scratching his head over a choice between schools, but the stakes are high, so he also knows he needs to choose wisely.
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Review of College-Bound
Kwabena Adomako Amankwah
Posted on July 05, 2007 at 12:44 PM
College bound
Browsing threw PRX pieces I came across the piece College bound. College bound is a piece about a former high school student trying to make a choice between Cornell University and Howard University. There were questions of why to choose between Cornell and Howard, when Cornell is an Ivy League college. That immediately drew me in because even though I am a freshman in high school, I am trying to look for good colleges out there. People tell me to apply to a black school because many successful African-Americans such as Oprah Winfrey made it big. Cornell has also made a lot of successful people and off the bat; right away people will give a positive responses to you once you put that name on your resume. This piece makes you question opportunity and what to do with it. This piece is awesome because of the information they hit in terms of history of both schools. The only thing I think this person needs to work on is bringing more action to their piece, because at first I thought it was going to be boring. I though this because the tone of the speakers voice. Other than that this piece is awesome.
Adomako