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Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by Larufa(m): 12:42am On Apr 05, 2017
A New Jersey (Nigerian) teenager 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://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/us/teen-ivy-league-trnd/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

CNN did not make reference to her Nigerian root but if it bad news, it will be the center of the news.

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Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by EbukaHades10(m): 12:54am On Apr 05, 2017
Oyinbo and their "Yeyeriness". She try gan. Hope say she sef no go turn slay mama when she enter. Meanwhile..........in my country,they will always look 4 a way to reject applicants.
Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 1:12am On Apr 05, 2017
2015-Harold Ekeh
2016- Augusta Nwa-Amanzu
2017 - Ifeoma what again?


You get the trend.. .

Lalasticlala

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Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by Iskander4: 1:36am On Apr 05, 2017
IGBO!!! WHO GOD HAS BLESS......

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Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by Zi: 4:51am On Apr 05, 2017
Congratulations to her.

But check again. She is not Nigerian. She just has a Nigerian name.
Nigeria does not afford brilliant minds opportunity to explore and use the potentials.
If she were to be around like everyone else, no one will probably know about her existence - just like the rest of us.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to provide my kids an alternate nationality where they can fully utilized their God-given brains and talents. Amen!
Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by ibkgab001: 6:10am On Apr 05, 2017
Evidence to tell you that Yoruba has been civilized before you Igbo is the old degenerated roofing shits turn brown
Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by Nobody: 6:42am On Apr 05, 2017
i dont think she's Nigerian
Re: Nigerian Student: Ifeoma White-thorpe Gets Accepted By All 8 Ivy League Schools by jericco1(m): 7:27am On Apr 05, 2017
Who God has blessed no man can curse

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