TV Anchors Call Texas Senior ‘obnoxious' After He Got 20 Full Ride College Scholarships

Two Fox anchors drew criticism after calling a Texas senior who earned full ride scholarships to all 20 schools he applied to “obnoxious.”Micheal Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Lamar High School in Houston, has been accepted to elite schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and his dream school, Stanford.Fox 5 D.C. contributor Sarah Fraser and anchor Holly Morris called applying to 20 schools “ridiculous” during a show last week.“I think it’s obnoxious because you can only go to one,” Morris said. “You can only take one full ride, and you are taking a spot from someone else who worked really hard.”Fraser said that Brown was “taking away a spot” from other students by gaining acceptance to the 20 elite colleges. During the college admissions process, students who are not offered acceptance can be waitlisted for acceptance when spots open up as other students decline admission.Video of their exchange was widely shared on social media.   Continue reading...