Being a high school senior means fun times, sharing memories with friends and college acceptance letters. For one student, Kwasi Enin, being accepted into a great college was no problem. Choosing which school to attend was a problem. Seventeen-year-old Kwasi, who is a first generation American, has been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale). He was also accepted into a few State Universities as well.
Kwasi is a violinist and aspiring physician from Shirley, New York and his family is from Ghana. His accomplishment is very rare according to William Ford High School guidance counselor Nancy Winkler.
“My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight. It’s a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary,” Winkler told USA Today.
Check out a list of Kwasi’s accomplishment and see why he’s such a hot commodity:
- His SAT score (2,250 out of 2,400) puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students.
- He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by the time he graduates
- He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Island’s south shore (top 2% of his class)
- He’s a musician who sings in the school’s a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospital’s radiology department.
Want to know the school that Kwasi has chosen? Well, he’s playing it smart and exploring his options and going over each school’s financial packages.
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