He's all-Ivy -- accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns-college-university/7119531/?csp=usattumblr



In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall?

A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y., the 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale.

The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found he'd been accepted to every one. School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight on Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin.

The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation's most elite.

"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd High School, where Enin attends class. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she's never seen anything like this. "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."

For most of the eight schools, acceptance comes rarely, even among the USA's top students. At the top end, Cornell University admitted only 14% of applicants. Harvard accepted just 5.9%.

But Enin has "a lot of things in his favor," says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm.

For one thing, he's a young man. "Colleges are looking for great boys," Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage.

He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Island's south shore. That puts him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of 2,400 points, puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students.

He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by the time he graduates this spring. He's a musician who sings in the school's a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospital's radiology department. Enin plans to study medicine, as did both of his parents. They emigrated to New York from Ghana in the 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby. Both are nurses.

Being a first-generation American from Ghana also helps him stand out, Cohen says. "He's not a typical African-American kid."

Enin says he got the idea to apply to all eight in 10th or 11th grade, discovering that each has "their own sense of school spirit" and other qualities he liked. He also applied to three State University of New York campuses and Duke — and yes, they have all accepted him.

In a phone interview, Enin said Princeton so far has offered the most generous aid package. But he has yet to get offers from Columbia, Cornell or Harvard. Either way, he'll need to accept a place in the class of 2018 somewhere by May 1. He wants to pursue both music and medicine.

Cohen says he's "sitting in a very good place right now — I think he can negotiate the very best financial aid package he can get" at his top-choice school. "Almost any of them would do anything for this type of candidate," Cohen says.

She advises that Enin call or write each of the eight and let them know that he's got a slot in each other's freshman class. They'll compete to get him to show up in the fall.

Once he decides, she says, he should write letters to the seven runners-up saying he's "honored to have been admitted." After all, he's got to keep his options open for graduate school.

 

Very happy to see this but disappointed we don't seem to produce home grown kids of this variety.

 

Congratulations to him. Education is your salvation.

 

*Daps*

 

Remarkable achievement! Hard work pays off! Good luck to him and big congrats to everyone who mentored this young man!

 

Good shit.

 

Love the fact that he went for all eight! I love to see that kind of determination and drive out of young people. Congrats to him

 

This is great to hear. I wonder how he manages how to do so well. He's on par with the best Korean and Japanese students. Also, I'd like to mention that statistics aren't everything, there are students who know how to hack into the systems and manipulate grades, test scores, etc.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303636404579395220334268350

 

99th percentile

scoring 2250 out of 2400 should not only be 99th for "African American" but pretty all takers! Why didn't the article just reference the general population. That is even more impressive!

 

So true. Glad I'm not the only who caught this. He had the equivalent of a 1500 and graduated in the top 2% of his class and had a ton of AP classes. He did great period regardless of race

 

this is awesome! looking forward to the follow up...which school he chooses? he may end up with a free ride once these schools start competing for his enrollment...

 

An awesome accomplishment. Now THIS is who young people everywhere need to be looking up to. I'm going to mail this article to my son.

 

Much props to that brother.

 

DC teen Avery Coffey sought by 5 different Ivy League schools:



http://thegrio.com/2014/03/31/dc-teen-avery-coffey-sought-by-5-different-ivy-league-schools/

To say that Washington, D.C. native Avery Coffey has a bright future ahead of him would be a huge understatement.

The 17-year-old has maintained a 4.3 grade point average at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, he plays four different team sports and he even built a robot at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory while doing an internship.

Now, he has recently been accepted to all five Ivy League schools he applied to for college: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown.

The local Fox affiliate recently asked this remarkable young man what he wants to do next.

“I guess probably the CEO of an investment (or management consulting) firm. I guess pretty much overseeing acquisitions or transactions between large companies. Hopefully, Fortune 500 companies,” he said.

Coffey was raised by a single mother in one of the poorest wards in our nation’s capital. His mother works as a technician at the local children’s hospital.

He offers this advice to aspiring young people: ”You can go anywhere you want to, pursue any career that you want to, and you shouldn’t let anybody hinder you from trying to reach your goals.”

 

And another one! It just goes to show you, you can find inspiration if you just look in the right places. Nickelodeon and other kids' networks ought to feature super smart young people on commercials or come up with other devices to get their example out more broadly. Maybe a rapper like Mos Def could name check one of these brilliant young men in a tune or something.

 

Great post fam. Love articles like this. Someone please rep this man I'm all out

 

Damn, it makes my heart proud to see these young men take their education so seriously. I wish I could read more stories like this!

 

Consider it done. I love reading stories like this.

 

This is the type of person that modern society need to glorify.

less celebrities, less gangsters and way more hard working/smart kids!