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Teen writes #BlackLivesMatter 100 times for his college essay - and it worked

Stanford University issued an acceptance letter to Ziad Ahmed, a New Jersey teen who answered the essay question "What matters to you and why?" with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter 100 times. CBSN's DeMarco Morgan has the story.
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