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High school senior Harold Ekeh didn't just get into one Ivy League university. He was accepted into all eight.
Now comes the really hard part: Deciding where to go. He actually got into all 13 schools he applied to, including MIT and Johns Hopkins.

"I am leaning toward Yale," he told CNNMoney. "I competed at Yale for Model UN, and I like the passion people at Yale had."
Some of the Yale students he met became his friends and mentors, offering advice on the college application process. Now Ekeh is trying to do the same thing.
Ekeh, 17, founded a college mentoring program at his school, Elmont Memorial High School on Long Island in the New York city suburbs. His goal is to get more students into top universities.

: Ekeh was born in Nigeria and came to the United States when he was eight. He wrote his main college essay about the struggle to adjust, including being clueless in U.S. history classes at school. He said he would ask his parents repeatedly why they moved.
"We had a fairly comfortable life in Nigeria, but they told me we moved to America for the opportunities like the educational opportunities," he recalled.
The salutatorian is quick to credit his parents, school and community for his success.

"I am very humbled by this," Ekeh said. "It's not just for me, but for my school and community. We can accomplish great things here."
He wants to major in neurobiology or chemistry in college and later become a doctor and, ultimately, a neurosurgeon. He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer's.

Elmont High School is 99% minority. Ekeh is the second student in recent years to win a prestigious Intel Science award.
Principal John Capozzi calls Ekeh "one of the most humble young men I've ever had the opportunity to meet." The lab where Ekeh did his award-winning research is modest and only staffed part-time by a passionate chemistry teacher, but the community makes the most of what it has.
Ekeh will spend the coming weeks visiting all the schools before making his final decision.
His advice to other high school students is simple: "Like my parents always told us, the secret to success is unbridled resolve."

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/04/pf/college/immigrant-accepted-all-ivy-league-schools-harold-ekeh/

Wow. So impressive.

I claim it for mine o

Nice one mr

just saw thread created on this already

https://www.nairaland.com/2238833/nigerian-immigrant-u.s-gains-admission

This thread is richer than the one on fp, i was asking how that one made fp without a damn comment

babyosisi:
I claim it for mine o

My thirteen year old cousin is already getting considerations from Duke. He's only required to keep the same record he has in junior high through senior high.

Children of today.
I don't know where they are getting all the smartness from.

cococandy:
My thirteen year old cousin is already getting considerations from Duke. He's only required to keep the same record he has in junior high through senior high.

Children of today.
I don't know where they are getting all the smartness from.

@bolded,'yesterday' some people made this statement about the time you were his age.lol
People have always been smart in every generation.It just gets better with technology.

thorpido:
@bolded,'yesterday' some people made this statement about the time you were his age.lol
People have always been smart in every generation.It just gets better with technology.

yea right?

Babyosisi, pls can u post aisha2 email here.
I deleted the one she gave me by mistake.
Want to reach out to her.
Look for it o cos I know she gave u her email address.

Compliments