(CNN) If you're applying to college, you can spend hours crafting the perfect admissions essay. Or you can just write the same word 100 times. It worked for Ziad Ahmed. The Princeton, New Jersey, high school senior was recently admitted to Stanford University after writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 times in response to the application question, "What matters to you and why?" Ahmed has been flooded with attention since posting his essay answer to Twitter on Saturday. "First, there was a word limit on the question prompt -- you couldn't have less than 100 words," he explained in an interview with CNN.Ziad Ahmed, 18, had a creative response to the essay question, "What matters to you and why?"He says he is still deciding which school he will attend
Ahmed told CNN he has been bullied online by white extremists since his successful _ application made headlines.