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Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Ikengawo(op): 4:46pm On Apr 09, 2015

High school student has been accepted to every college he applied to... including ALL EIGHT Ivy League schools

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/06/14/275237DD00000578-3027446-image-a-1_1428326641503.jpg

'It was crazy. My mom was sat next to me and it was just letter after letter after letter. I couldn't believe it,' Harold told DailyMail.com as he recounted the five minutes when acceptance emails came in from Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, NYU, MIT, Vanderbilt, and SUNY Stony Brook.

His celebration?
'I went to Chipotle with my friends for a half steak half chicken burrito bowl. It was perfect.'

Born in Nigeria, Harold and his parents moved to the US when he was eight.

He is now a straight A student, with an SAT score of 2270, at Elmont Memorial High School in Long Island, New York, where he has served as editor-in-chief of his student newspaper and chief executive of the Model United Nations.

His success, he explains, is down to the submission essay, in which he described his family's struggle to fit in after emigrating to America.
It was the resilience of his parents, former Target clerks Paul and Roseline Ekeh, that gave him the drive to achieve the best.

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/06/17/27531D5300000578-3027446-image-a-28_1428337471426.jpg
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027446/Gee-whiz-High-schooler-accepted-college-applied-including-EIGHT-Ivy-League-schools.html

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Acekidc4(m): 4:48pm On Apr 09, 2015

Ok Na

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Nobody: 4:50pm On Apr 09, 2015*

Wow, that's cool, a genius indeed. These are the kinda brains we need in onitsha, alaba and computer village.

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by UrennaNkoli(f): 4:50pm On Apr 09, 2015

And when i made all the noise about Igbo being the backbone of Nigeria on my thread, people were angry.

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Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by yungEX(m): 4:55pm On Apr 09, 2015

UrennaNkoli:
And when i made all the noise about Igbo being the backbone of Nigeria on my thread, people were angry.

u have started again abi? cant u let Sleepin dog lie? na wa o.

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by eye4eye: 4:55pm On Apr 09, 2015

Foolish you. His parents from Isan in Edo state. They are not Ibo. Would you have called him "Ibo teenager" if he was one of your brothers in Malaysia or Indonesia doing their drug thing?

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Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Ikengawo(op): 4:57pm On Apr 09, 2015

eye4eye:
Foolish you. His parents from Isan in Edo state. They are not Ibo. Would you have called him "Ibo teenager" if he was one of your brothers in Malaysia or Indonesia doing their drug thing?

LOL is that what you believe?

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by DuchessLily(f): 5:00pm On Apr 09, 2015

Wow! All boys! Mummy of boys I salute u

Congrats boy!

God my children will and must be intelligent and make me proud.. Amen

Whether u r IBO, Hausa or Yoruba, u r sha a Nigerian and I am proud of u

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by eye4eye: 5:01pm On Apr 09, 2015

Ikengawo:
LOL is that what you believe?

Shut your trashy Ibo mouth. His parents were interviewed on CNN three days ago. They are not Ibos. They are from Edo State. The father works as cashier at Target in NY. I'm in NY myself.

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Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by UrennaNkoli(f): 5:02pm On Apr 09, 2015

yungEX:
u have started again abi? cant u let Sleepin dog lie? na wa o.

What have i started again ?

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by dunkem21(m): 5:07pm On Apr 09, 2015

We are able to go up and take the mountains

To possess the land from Jordan to the sea

Though the giants may be on their way to hinder

God will surely give us Victory. ...Victory ..

Only move on to the righteous side ...

Move on ...

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by jmoore(m): 5:10pm On Apr 09, 2015

Nice one. The pikin get brain.

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by jaysniggs: 5:17pm On Apr 09, 2015*

That was how one of them posted a 2010 story deceiving gullible people about the election that haven't even been held yet in 2015 cry

Its unfortunate I must say
Lies and deceits won't get anyone anywhere good.

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Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Ikengawo(op): 5:22pm On Apr 09, 2015

eye4eye:
Shut your trashy Ibo mouth. His parents were interviewed on CNN three days ago. They are not Ibos. They are from Edo State. The father works as cashier at Target in NY. I'm in NY myself.

do you work at target with him? Whats the current garri price in NY?

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by tmotmo: 5:23pm On Apr 09, 2015

eye4eye:
Shut your trashy Ibo mouth. His parents were interviewed on CNN three days ago. They are not Ibos. They are from Edo State. The father works as cashier at Target in NY. I'm in NY myself.

Please take it easy and be civic with my Ibo brother, you should by now be used to them since we are adults on this forum. They have this inflated wisdom and personalities, they always claim to be what they are not.

Sorry for this ethnic-looking statement, but truth must be told.

By now should know they owned everything and everywhere in Nigeria, Lagos, Kano, Benin, Onitsha, Port-harcout, maiduguri and yola. They are the only industrious set of people in the Country!!! Bravo grin

#Nigeria_will_again_&_again_Survive Any Plot of destabilzation.

#God Bless Nigeria

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Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by jmoore(m): 5:27pm On Apr 09, 2015

Though the title of this thread may sound tribalistic, it is only a foolish person that will say they are not Igbos.
I just checked their facebook profiles.

If you can't afford to do a simple research with just 1Mb, then shut up and stop advertising your foolishness.

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by yungEX(m): 6:30pm On Apr 09, 2015

jmoore:
Though the title of this thread may sound tribalistic, it is only a foolish person that will say they are not Igbos.
I just checked their facebook profiles.

If you can't afford to do a simple research with just 1Mb, then shut up and stop advertising your foolishness.

thank you o. d op started wit d "ibo teenager" and d fact is that they aint even ibo

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by dlox147(m): 3:18am On Apr 10, 2015

yungEX:
thank you o. d op started wit d "ibo teenager" and d fact is that they aint even ibo

eye4eye:
Shut your trashy Ibo mouth. His parents were interviewed on CNN three days ago. They are not Ibos. They are from Edo State. The father works as cashier at Target in NY. I'm in NY myself.

they are igbos from Awka in Anambra state but the Dad schooled in Edo state.

Re: Igbo Teenager Accepted Into The 8 Best Schools In The World, Credits Parents by Nobody: 3:28am On Apr 10, 2015

you guys are a disgraceful bunch!!
so what if he is igbo or kanuri?? who cares??
He is a young Nigerian doing us proud!!

if you wanna go the tribal route, how many igbos have won the Nobel prize before??
How many igbos have been nominated or even the grammies??

Enough of this tribal bullshiit... we are the young Nigerians that should pave the way to a better Nigeria.
I am a core igbo man but when i see Nigerians denigrating others based on tribe or feeling superior based on achievement of kin folks, it nauseates me!!...

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