A New Jersey teenager Ifeoma White-Thorpe has to make a decision soon most high school seniors can only dream of -- deciding on which Ivy League school to attend in the fall. The problem, if you want to call it that, is that she was accepted into all of them. All eight of them.

Ifeoma White-Thorpe said she was shaking when she got the eighth acceptance letter.
"I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight and I clicked it and it said 'Congratulations' and I was like oh my goodness!" White-Thorpe told CNN affiliate WABC-TV.

White-Thorpe, a senior and student government president at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown.

She wants to study biology and pursue a career in global health. Since all of the Ivy League schools "have great research facilities," she decided to apply to them all.

Students getting into all of the Ivies is a monumental feat, but it's happened to a handful of teens over the past couple of years -- Kwasi Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly Hyles last year.

So where will she go?
Her parents said the choice is totally up to her; White-Thorpe said she just doesn't know yet.
She can add another elite school to the mix as well -- she also got into Stanford.


http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/04/us/teen-ivy-league-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNN040417teen-ivy-league-trnd0500PMStoryLink&linkId=36182485

Lucky girl,the white-thorpe also paved way if she was Ifeoma Uzoamaka Igwe this thread wouldn't have existed

Congrats to her.

A Nigeria Igbo girl.....


Abeg no commit the tribe biko




Abeg Igbo's re great...
Nigeria for life

subtlemee:
Lucky girl,the white-thorpe also paved way if she was Ifeoma Uzoamaka Igwe this thread wouldn't have existed

Not really..actually the other way round. That she's black meant she had a 'minority' advantage

Whats special about this

In case you dont know, I am not disappointed. It is in their gene. Igbos are the trailblazers of the Republic called Nigeria.

Nice one

Nice lips too

congrats

Ok but know it now...

good stuff

i don't celebrate these guys because they don't even know their root

so no need celebrating people That sees themselves as US citizens

it's a sign of inferiority complex

is she israeli?

Ogashub:
Whats special about this

lol... Abeg help me ask them....

Like say to get admission into Nigeria public universities easy, even with your 8A's and 400 in jamb.

subtlemee:
Lucky girl,the white-thorpe also paved way if she was Ifeoma Uzoamaka Igwe this thread wouldn't have existed

Not true.
Harold Ekeh and Austa Nwa-Amanzu had won recently, with Igbo surnames

2015-Harold Ekeh
2016- Augusta Nwa-Amanzu
2017- Ifeoma White Torpe


You get the trend?

abeg Just choose Harvard, Harvard University of life..

NCAN reporting

Igbos on the beat!





Name checkers..over to you

ncan ado-ekiti chapter


8 what?
while temitope my neighbor is on her 8th abortion

see person head on fire. e too sabi book

subtlemee:
Lucky girl,the white-thorpe also paved way if she was Ifeoma Uzoamaka Igwe this thread wouldn't have existed

I don't think so, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna got into all of them last year too. I think its all about grades here.

Igbo girl. I'm proud.

congrats

Here we are struggling with registering for UTME!

It can only be Igbo

That is a Biafran

Interesting

ipreach:
That is a Biafran

herkeem:
Igbo girl with brain

tstx:
It can only be Igbo

If you don't claim tribal affiliation when it's a story about someone from your tribe being caught doing crime, why claim it now when it's positive?

This applies to all tribal e-warriors on Nairaland. Tell your personal stories and stop basking in someone else's glory.

biikeys:


Not really..actually the other way round. That she's black meant she had a 'minority' advantage

It may not be by advantage.
Look at her SAT scores and all that?

"Students getting into all of the Ivies is a monumental feat, but it's happened to a handful of teens over the past couple of years -- Kwasi Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly Hyles last year"

That means 3 Nigerians in 2yrs got accepted in 8 ivies.

This is what i call the Nigerian factor, where fishes die of thirst in the ocean. We have abundance of talents but cannot make use of it by developing them and that's why we have certificate forgers leading us. Same reason why we have abundance of crude oil but pay so much to import petrol. Little wonder India can export gari to Nigeria

Its a very very sad situation... The earlier we wake up the better and stand up to this cancerous leaders in our political system.

revolution is surely inevitable if we must save ourselves and the future of our unborn children.