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https://www.kensap.org/harvard-college

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Just30:
well the are not but they drop out of it because it is too rigorous
No wonder Kenyans steer far away from it for concert programs

Definitely if they are airheads from Ghana.

Just30:
half of pre med school drop the class before even the exams starts.
It takes good grounding

That makes her achievement even more remarkable

Just30:
Cry

She aced it because she had done all those things in high school here

Show started as Celtel Africa Challenge in 2007 - The inaugural Celtel Africa Challenge ended in a photo finish with Egerton University beating Kenyatta - both are kenyan universities
2008 - kenya won - all kenyan final
Zain (Kuwait telcom) bought Celtel from the Sudan-Briton Mo Ibraham.
2009 - Ibandan won - with kenya second
2010 - kenya won - all kenyan final

Bharti Airtel (india) buys Zain Africa - and stop the shows in 2011 .

It was really embarrassing for 16 africa teams to always have kenya teams from quartes - all kenya quarters/ semi finals/ finals.

The gulf btw kenya education and Sub Sahara Africa is HUGE

Obaaderemi2:
What lie? That your education in Kenya has failed or that the program was cancelled in 2010?

Why didn't egerton or any Kenyan University walk away with pride in 2009 when Ibadan destroyed them?

The show continued for another year.
Ibandan got whalloped by some dunderheads in Ghana.
Kenya won everything from quarters.
I know you come from a society a zoo really where lying is a virtue.


This was final show 2010
After fifteen weeks of intense brain-racking academic exercise, Egerton University of Kenya walked away with pride as the undisputed champions of the 2010 Zain Africa Challenge competition, Africa's top television quiz show

Apart from 2009 when Ibandan fluked through kenya won everything from Quarters allmost for rest of years.

Almost all finals were kenyan affair

Nairobi — It will be an all-Kenyan final at the ongoing Zain Africa Challenge.

Debutant Africa Nazarene University has already secured a slot in the final and will battle for the top position with the winner of the Sunday semi-final duel that will pit Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology against Egerton University.

Obaaderemi2:
Beating someone 720 to 610 is no fluke. And that was the first time they took part. If the show had continued, the pattern would have changed.

So all the ululations were because of she aced foundation courses

Just30:
cry

Kenya has 87 universities. Again Nigeria the main zoo represent the small zoo in west africa. Stop struggling to compete with big countries.

Kenya public sector education.

Ruto said that there are 32,594 primary schools, 10,482 secondary schools, 12 national polytechnics, 259 technical and vocational training institutions and 87 universities which shows progress in improving academic standards in the country.

vaxx:
it is easy to identify our product . Some of the top finest brain from africa are Ghanaian . Be it in science or art related decipline. Apart from us having the current fourth best university in africa currently . ( This in itself placed us ahead of any Kenyan university , we are only top by egypt and south africa. Remember this is a country with only just 16 public universities and less than half of your population and we are doing wonders.

Naturally Kenyan kids lacks the correct nutritional food that will have reshaped and fashioned up their brain for future challenge but there isn't much food for such development. There is food crisis in your country which proportionally leads to stunted educational performance . We eat well here and deliver exceptional academic quality . At least UCC recent fourth best africa university point out to this.

You and fellow madman keep ranting on and on. What sold you out is the allegation s/he was doing medicine in harvard as undergrad.

If he or she is in harvard - cant be studying anything pre-med or med before s/he get a first degree

https://extension.harvard.edu/academics/programs/premedical-program/#content-1
You are eligible to apply if you meet the following criteria:

Have completed a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
Are a US citizen or permanent resident.
Have English language proficiency.

vaxx:
another thing is , he taught pre- med program is a full fledged four years decipline major like the normal degree. Thinking you will be getting a degree award for it. Infact in usa, it is possible to study business administration and run a medicine program as post first degree, even any courses. just a matter of some little foundational pre-medic will just kick start your efforts. And likewise you can go straight for a pre medic program just after college.

The airlift education scholarship that changed the world.

This is where the story of America's first black president, Barack Obama, begins.

The Kenyan trade unionist turned politician Tom Mboya, who studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, wanted members of his country's government to be adequately prepared for a post-colonial Kenya.

He recognised quite early on that there were not enough professional Africans to run an efficient civil service.

To make up the shortfall, he set up a scholarship fund that would take young bright Africans to the US and Canada.

The idea was for them to acquire the necessary skills and come back to help build a new country when the white civil servants packed up and returned to Europe.

One of those students was one Barack Obama from Kogelo, near the port city of Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Just30:
so basically none achievers
No wonder

The next year they didnt even get thro the prelimanires - Egerton won it again in 2010. They had done it in 2008 then 2010. It really was competition btw kenya universities. Ibandan fluked through - quick on the buzzer.

And kenya best university remain UON = the mother and father of all universities in kenya.

Obaaderemi2:
They beat your University 720 against 610, over a hundred points and you call that a fluke.

Obama
Nobel Laurate Martha Wangari - 1st African woman to win a Nobel

Notable recipients include Kenya's Wangari Maathai, the first African female and first environmentalist to win the Nobel Prize; Mahmoud Mamdani, a prominent Ugandan academic listed in the top 100 list of public intellectuals by Prospect Magazine; and George Saitoti, a former vice president of Kenya. Other notable recipients include[3][4][5][6][7]

Academia and education
Prof. Leah Marangu (Former Vice Chancellor of African Nazarene University)
Prof. Mahmoud Mamdani (Prominent Ugandan author and academic. Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research)
Prof. Miriam Were (Chancellor, Moi University. Winner of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize)
Dr. Nathan K. Saziru (Former Professor, Ohio State University. Alumnus of Stanford University, University of Oxford)
Diplomatic service
Pamela Odede Mboya (Former Kenyan representative to UN Habitat)
Hon. Simon Thuo Kairo (First Kenyan ambassador to China)
Prof. Washington Aggrey Okumu (Kenyan diplomat, economist and politician)
Environmentalism and conservationism
Hon. Wangari Maathai (First African female and first environmentalist Nobel Prize winner)
Journalism, writing and media
Maina wa Kinyatti (Kenyan Author and Mau Mau historian. Winner of the PEN freedom to write award)
Politics, trade unionism and civil rights
Hon. Arthur Magugu (Kenyan politician and former cabinet minister)
Prof. George Saitoti (Mathematician. Former Vice President of Kenya)
Hon. Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo (Kenyan trade unionist and politician)
Hon. Wilson Ndolo Ayah (Kenyan politician and former cabinet minister)
Dr. Zachary Onyonka (Kenyan politician and former cabinet minister)
Science, technology and medicine
Prof. Miriam Were (Prominent A.I.D.S. researcher. Chancellor, Moi University. Winner of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize)
Dr. Ng'endo Mwangi (First Kenyan female physician. First black African student at Smith College in Massachusetts and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York)
Prof Reuben Olembo (Kenyan scientist and environmentalist. Former Deputy Director of UNEP)

Just30:
running away with his tail in-between his legs

So nothing came out of Kenya Ivy league educationist ?

There is no medicine she is studying assumging she in harvard.

Just30:
read the comment you're replying to and you'll understand and not ask those questions

They just didnt lose - they lost at preliminaries - kenya teams won all quarters, semi-finals and finals; only Ibandan fluked through once. The rest was all kenya all the time...from quarters.

Obaaderemi2:
Ibadan participated only twice. Won it the first time it took part and lost out the second time. If it had continued Kenya would have been swept aside.

Is she in Harvard or not.
Is she studying medicine or not.
Is she studying pre-med or not.
Is she studying biology or chemistry.

Look here slowpoke - in US pre-med is only done after you have Bsc in Biology or Chemistry.

Bottomline - if she in harvard - she is studying for biology or chemistry or some science.

Then optionally she can go for pre-med or just post-grad medicine degree.

vaxx:
you aren't well informed , I have already point out that to you numerous time. .if you are applying for a medicine in the usa and you meet up with all the necessary admission procedure. You will be admitted for a pre-medic program. Take your time and learn frim google pls. Pre- medic isn't a full fledged degree program. It is simply a combination of pre- medicinal foundation subject simple. Based on this , a serious student should be crossing over to full fledged medicine program in notting less than few years . Way shorter than doing related medicine program


You are clever by half

In SSA we talk to you big Zoo - Nigeria - Kenya control the eastern sphere - and South Africa the south. We are taking over central africa - so soon we control both east and central.

Just30:
Unless the big boys you're referring to are Somalis and Ugandans cause the only big boys I know in this world are the Americans, Russians, Germans, Chinese and co and those are the ones Ghanaians roll with head to head and dominate

The feeling is absolutely mutual - we are chasing big boys - not Ghana. What is Ghana. That is Uganda level. You're merely a distraction in this thread. It about big boys - Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

Ghana remain the little dwarf trying to measure up. Give up hobbbits. You aint kenya level in almost everything. Kumasi and Accra look like cattle Kraal.

Just30:
possibly because it will even be an insult to Ghana to compare Kenya to her.

Maybe compared to Burkina Faso.

Just30:
Go and see the main people filling up their ivy league schools.
What ever you can possibly think of, there will be more Ghanaians in it than Kenyans and the Ghanaians will excel more than Kenyans because that is who Ghana is.
Education is a must here and the quality is better to compare with the best in the world

You're rambling.
Fact is your Ghana kid is not studying medicine in Harvard.
She is either doing Biology or Chemistry or NeuroScience.
There is no medicine in undergrad in US.

So all the nonsense that she is doing medicine and is unique is borne out of ignorance.

vaxx:
my nigger, pre medic is not a major perse , you aren't graduating with any sort of degree, it is just about combining some major subject like chemistry, biology and even sometimes unrelated subject like agriculture. You should be completing a premedic program within two years as a serious student .

In Ghana you can easily run an mBbS directly if you passed out with 7/ or 7 aggregate. It is only law that requires first degree and it has even stoped now. You can easily run a law degree directly ( it is four years for a direct program and three years for post first degree program .

Monkey do. Monkey say. Mad cow.
Not even US of A had that many IVY league graduates for 70yrs.

Tell your father to hire you an online tutor.

Just30:
Before you sent your first 3,000 which only few ended up at ivy league schools, Ghana had already used 70 years to send more than 40,000 to it

We are not talking about one random guy,
We are talking 3,000 kids in 1950s and 1960 send direct to IVY league at intervention of US president JF Kenndey.

Just30:
Ghanaians did it in the late 1800 into the early 1920s and it has become a thing.

I know one Ghanaian with 5 out of his 6 or 7 kids at ivy league.

It's nothing to brag about, what they do when they come out is what is important

Ibandan particpated in 2010 and failed. All the years kenya teams qualified for quarters since it was zain then airtel...it had to be stopped...because kenya universities dominated it...all kenya quarters...all kenya semi finals...all kenya finals. All the years it was active..it became very embarrassing for the brand...and kenya didnt even care about zain or airtel.

Obaaderemi2:
The first time University of Ibadan participated in the Zain University challenge was 2009 and it won it. The program was stopped in 2010. UI took your lunch the very first time it attended.
Next topic, jare.

Pre med if you want to call it that- is full four years in biology or chemistry in the US. In Kenya or UK or Ghana pre-med is 2yrs - as bachelors of medicine and surgery is offered. In US medicine is only offered as post-grad.

vaxx:
there is pre medic program which will automatically transfer application for a full mbbs. It is way shorter than studying another related degree.

There is no undergraduate medicine in US - you study biology or chemistry or anything like that. Stop this west african nonsense of praising kids.

vaxx:
Another remarkable portfolio . To study medicine alone self in USA, UK, Germany as an African applicant is the most difficult process I have ever seen , it is like trying to escape an elephant thru a needle . Medicine is a special course, they hardly give it out to africa student .not even minding the millions of dollars involved .

Only russia and some other eastern europe accept anything .

This is not a popularity contest. You make an allegation - your present facts.

Obaaderemi2:
Kenyan education is indeed a joke.

Obama father did Phd in harvard in 1960 and got Obama as co-curriculum activity.
Kenyans went to IVY league in 1950s and 1960s in the famous Tom Mboya and JF Kennedy airlift program.
And they laid a solid foundation of education.

Just30:
Is there even a Kenyan at Harvard?

I want to see Kenyans excel in the fields I've mentioned above and do marvelous things globally that also impact Kenya positively in the transformation of your backward education.

Another like the Nigeria Philip Emeagwali who invented internet

Just30:
Prof Herb Winful


Quantum Electronist


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8l043J89-Q



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_yAOqE9gwc

These poor kids will be murdered by kenyan kids on such kind of questions. Harvard is big deal in 2022

Just30:
She came out top of her class at Harvard this year

The point is clear...kenya has an historical high quality of education.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEtDXLBaQg

Obaaderemi2:
This is ridiculous. What's your point exactly?

We had Airtel/Zain African Challenge.
No Single Ghanian university made to semifinal. - quarters
One-year Ibandan university fluked through and won.
The rest of years - kenyans dominated
It was all kenyan team from quarter finals for donkey years.

Try something else. Kenya kids are extremely smart.

vaxx:
look thru Ghanaian student performance. NSMQ. It is a annual program. Must of those who participated in it and won are constantly giving free scholarship to study abroad or the best Private uni in the country. A dinner or lunch with president for just winning the competition , this is how we strengthen academic excellence . We made them recognised their value. We even reward them heavily with lots of cash and their teachers as well.

The lady who won the 2021 competition last year was admitted to three ivy league university abroad ( Harvard , MIT and one that is off my head for now ) the lady later choose pre medic program at Harvard uni. This is a lady completely from a poor family .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdaxoFjiYJg

I will cut you some slack as you're in Germany. I assume you're fairly competent in German. The Just30mad - how do we excuse him? Honestly to be brutally honest like those parents who murder teachers - Ghana has a big problem.

All of my life - I struggled in English. The rest I aced. My English in my school was always average. Just accept the well established fact that kenya education standard is off charts. There is really no need for unnecessary arguments.

vaxx:
this is the kind of reasoning I am pointing out , you goggle up easily to find and compare your nonsense . It is like me giving you a basket of something of such from Ghanaian or Nigerian student . I wouldn't go so low on that .

Thru your writing, I can guess your level of exposure and intellect. You are smart by half.

This worst KCPE essay that got 4 marks. The average Ghanian here write worse than this. Primary school.

This is what kenya primary kids write in their Engish Essay or composition.

vaxx:
you are an example of Kenya polluted educational system, I can actually used you to measure what I am expecting from an average kenya because you have single handedly make this thread active with your constant half baked informed knowledge and a wack reasoning . Just like an idiot that you are. I believe you are learning by writing more , keep it going , you might change for good . By looking thru, you heavily Google dependant. You wouldn't scale thru reasoning with our last kids because he will send you to google again to argue him up when debating . You know what that means , he is well informed and versed than you .