The Queens teen who admitted she received a high school diploma she didn’t deserve is looking forward to attending Marymount Manhattan Colle♌ge in the fall — a🐲nd aspires to be a doctor.
Melissa Mejia, 18, told The Post on Sunday that she got the final credits needed to graduate from William Cullen Bryant High School when she was passed in a Government class that she had been failing and had 🐎barely attended.
She said Monday that she doesn’t regret her cꦯonfession and doesn’t believe it will impact her enrollment at the private Upper E♏ast Side liberal arts college.
“I don’t think I did anything bad,” she said.
Mejia hopes 🧔to be a pre-med student, adding, “I wan🐠t to do psychiatry.”
A ဣMarymount spokeswoman refused to confirm or deny her enrollment.
But Mejia’s revelation raised troubling questions about whether undeserving hi♉gh school grads could gain admission to four-year colleges and universities.
“Most colleges in America are not selective, period,” said David Bloomf🐈ield, a professor of education leader꧅ship at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. “A lot of schools are looking to fill seats. They’re looking for warm bodies.”
Bloomfield said el♍ite universities would be more likely to consider academic shortcomings, such as barely passing grades.
“But most of the programs — especially ones where a struggling student will appꦿly — are not going to subject that student’s record to that kind of close analysis,” he said.
Reps for CUNY, SUNY and California Sta🌟te University, the nation’s largest public four-year🅘 college system, all declined to make admissions officers available for comment Monday.